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Came out 1959 during my time. I was 9 yrs old . Fell in love with this beautiful love song. The greatest of all times by the Platters !!!!
My parents always played “The Platters” Sundays after church on Sunday while making breakfast. It was the greatest hits 8-track and every time I hear this song it takes me back. Too this sound I can still smell the bacon, sausage, and eggs.
The Platters were amazing in their time. My music teacher played their music often to show how to enunciate well when singing.
The lead singer of the Platters "TONY WILLIAMS" was my brother. Thank you, for loving it. I'll share this on social media with the rest of the family. Carolyn Williams-Edison
Yeslord
One of the best ever Tony Williams!
RIP Tony Williams. One of the greatest voices ever! What a talent!
He was irreplaceable, was always moved by his singing.
His voice was one of the best in recording history. Simply haunting and beautiful..
This brings tears to my eyes. Such amazing vocal performance long before auto-tune. It came out before I was born.
The Platters was my mom's favorite group. Thank you for reacting to a great "oldie but goodie!"
We have such beautiful music back in the day. Love, Love, Love The Platters.
Sublime. Those voices are something else. Crying in the Chapel, The Great Pretender, Only You, etc, etc - just astonishingly good stuff. He's Mine - a rare one with Zola's "girl voice" as lead vocal is dead cool!
I just lost my mom in January. She was 76. My mom loved the platters. This song came out in the 60s. You should listen to all their songs. BeUtiful. Made me cry. Missing my mama.
Love this song and The Platters!
That recording is definitely a gem The platters were smooth! Everything they recorded was great.
My parents listened to this in high school. Can you imagine? I would turn the clock back in a heartbeat.
I am an old man now. I still recall my son, as a young man into Hank jr. etc. I gave him a c.d. of the Platters. Told him I thought they were the greatest group of all times. He was knocked out by their talent. Lead singer could have sang any style he chose.
I remember my parents playing the Platter's albums when I was a small child... beautiful voices ..... easy on the ears.
Me too. We must be around the same age. They just don’t make them like this anymore.
My dad loved this song and had a Platters album that i heard while i was in my formative years and it has always stuck with me in the best of ways. Great song by a great group.
Awwwwww! Preteen and teen yrs! Sock hop dances! Sweet memories! My hubby and I saw them yrs. later and they still were fabulous! The lady singer looked like an angel!!!!❤️🎶
A great song in the hands of a great group = real artistry
One of my favorites from my childhood. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes and Stormy Weather were my grandmother's favorites.
I'm from Canada, and I went to go on this reaction and I was on your live show but somebody named Susie you were talking about and the video froze. I was saying how blessed I was to be able to see and hear the last remaining singer from The Platters his name is Johnny he would come from Washington state with this woman Marilyn and he would sing in the legion on karaoke night I even videotaped it it was awesome
Great song!!... I remember my Mother always played this song and sang along to it when I was just a little kid. I really enjoyed this song. Brought back a lot of memories of my Mother who has passed away.
Loved that song and my dancing partners, those were the days !!
WOW! What a fantastic trip down memory lane. Little girl (guess who😊) sitting in her chair at the kitchen table while Mom, Dad, Uncle Jack and Aunt Katie were playing dominoes. Big radio playing this as Dad crooned along. What a happy memory you dredged up! Thank you, Shug💋as always...with love from Pam & LoLa❤️🐾❤️
Majestic is what these voices are. Nothing less. Listened to this a million times since I was a kid and these voices (all of 'em, listen to the back) knock you to your knees with their beautiful majesty. Yep, Majestey
you do the most interesting reactions. you truly have a unique base of subscribers.
Sure had wonderful voices and harmony!!! LOVE IT!!!
I was with The Platters in the early '80s on guitar and bass. At that time, Monroe Powell was the lead singer. He was an original Ink Spot.
The original singer in this record was Tony Williams. He was replaced by Sonny Turner in the early '60s and sang on hits like "With This Ring"...
I enjoyed working with them...
One of the great groups. 1955. The beginning of rock and roll.
Tony Williams voice is one of the smoothest ever. He is effortlessly smooth through the highs and lows of every song he sings.
Always love the Platters. Talented beyond compare. Smooth and soothing vocals from Tony Williams. Let's not forget the harmonies of Herbert Reed, Alex Hodge, David Lynch, Cornell Gunther, Joe Jefferson, Paul Robi (who replaced Alex Hodge)and Zola Taylor who joined the group at 14 years old. They set a standard for other groups. Not bad for a quintet from Watts
Man.....the memories associated with this one. WOW!!! 😁😁😁
Beautiful song! Beautiful voice! Thanks for posting!
Just beautiful! One of my mamas favorite song. What a voice! Just breathtaking. Miss you Mama. I know you're singing along with me
Oh! When I was young, one of the first things you learned taking voice lessons was to sing without an accent, the reason being that it's easier to harmonize without accents. I still sing with no accent 😃
LMAO! Here I thought I was going to get you with the white guy comment! I didn't know that the Platters were black until I seen them live at the Fiesta Dinner Theater in San Diego back in high school. I used to sing some of their songs to my girlfriend at the time, though not nearly as well. Guys, girls still love romance. Sing one of the Platters songs to her and I just about guarantee it. If you think, gee, that's old stuff, keep in mind that I was high school class of '81. These guys came out in the fifties. I loved to see you reacting to the Platters. I hope you do more. They were an amazing vocal group.
Lead singer was Tony Williams. Great voice. Died at 64 in 1992.
This was my mother in laws favorite group and this her favorite song. What a voice.
We have a "tradition" of playing this at our family campfires, when the smoke starts wafting around. Love the song and the Platters!
The Platters are my all time favorite Doo Wop group. I love their music! Favorites are My Prayer, Twilight Time, and The Great Pretender.
50sbaby 🙋🏽♀️🙏🏽💯the sweetest slow dance music ever, sixth grade and my crush asked me to dance 😎🤦🏽♀️
You're gonna explode if you ever hear Brook Benton!
One of the smooooothest voices in history!
I recommend 'Rainy night in Georgia'!
My dad adored Brook benton x
Seems like it's rainin' all over the world
Tony Williams one of the greatest underrated singers of all time. Listen to “where.” RIP, Tony Williams. Thanks for playing.
Love the 50's music... so romantic.
My parents had this album and it was my favorite song as a little boy maybe 5 or 6 years old. My other favorite song was Puff the magic dragon and both are still very high on my list to this day at the age of 60! The Platters had some other hits as well I remember another song on the same lp was Twilight Time it was one of my Dads favorites
You should react to Mack the Knife
Love this song, have heard it my whole life.
I graduated in 1975 but because of the movie American Graffiti we all knew these songs from the late 50s. Of course this tune is much older than that. Originally written by Jerome Kern (not black) for a musical in 1933. Gotta love them!
This is my music.
My teenage years .
I love the Platters
It takes me back in time. So long ago.
The song is actually from the 30s from a show called Roberta, there is a film version in which Irene Dunne sings the song and then it is later reprised as a dance instrumental with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
One of the best songs...I grew up hearing the Patters and the Ink Spots...they inspired me to sing.
I remember dancing to this as a teen at school dances. So Romantic!
Hey, Ty. This classic was actually a Broadway showtune, originally written by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach back in the early 30s. It has been covered by many of the greats, including Nat Cole, Frank Sinatra and even Benny Goodman. However, it was that plaintive tenor voice of Tony Williams that gave this Standard its greatest success. Although Kern's wife hated the version and thought of trying to stop it.
How I discovered this song was in 2005. I had just gone through a break up and heard "Smoke Rings In The Dark" by Gary Allen (good song btw), and in looking for it, found this song. Resonated waaay more with me at the time. Loved the Platters ever since.
One of my favorites. Thanks!
I sang this song at Wal-Mart whenever it plays and I love The Platters, regardless.
I have always liked the Platters. They did a lot of great songs.
“I don’t hear color” hahaha 🤣. You are right, Tony Williams sounds like a white dude in this song.
You ain't wrong. What a classic song. And you're American. It's all good.
LOL !! You are the best !!! - This tune is SO good - appreciate your reaction and thoughts on it !!!
You are right Michael. None could sing melodies like them.
that song came out in the 50's I use to listen to the platters when I was knee high to a grass hopper!
This song by RAY PRICE - called "For the Good Times" was not played on some radio stations because it was the first time that there was no doubt what was going on in bed. That was really a taboo subject back in the early 60's. Anyway it is a great piece of music full of memories.
This is such a pretty song. The harmony!! I knew the Platters wrere black because I'd seen them on the Ed Sullivan Show.(I think it was).
So classy,so tender...👍🎙🎶
Great group - great music! BUT - I'd like you - MRM - to listen to the entire seventeen minutes of Iron Butterfly's "In a Gadda da Vida" - great drumming AND organ playing! Thanks!
YES!!!
They are lovely. Have you reacted to Gene Pitney? His songs are epic, in a similar feel to the platters.
My favorite 'Every Breath I Take'.
The lady with the "Platters" married Frankie Lymon .
Tony Williams - one of the best voices there ever was 👍🏻👏🏻💝🥰‼️
the sheer artistry,and vocal range of the lead singer,incredible,heard only once in a lifetime,how you could not recognise the fact He's Black, baffles Me,I knew when I was around Ten,that was the case.
I'm a white man and I'm here to say the Platters were my 1st favorite group as a kid. They had so many great songs and it saddens me a little that they don't get the recognition they so richly deserve today.
I think a lot of that reason is that all the fake groups out there cheapened their memory. How can you listen to any group without Tony Williams and believe they're the Platters? The same with the Drifters and Coasters. So many fake groups out there that I got to where I never even thought of them anymore. One day someone was playing a Drifters album, and I realized all over again how good they were. It's the same with listening to the Platters now. Thanks for that!
When I was growing up in the 60s listening to the radio I was often surprised when groups turned out to be black, white, whatever. People didn't care. It was just good music. We all went to dances all the time and there were DJs spinning 45s.
1930
Probably your great great uncle.
And no computers. Just natural voices and real instruments.
The Platters were one of my mother’s favorites. I’m 61 so, yes, this lovely song by a great group has been around for awhile. BTW, I came to love the group myself. Twilight Time is my favorite.
Perfect music... beam me back in time.
This was 1959. which means I was around 12 yrs old. I listened to a lot of radio and of course, this is where I heard it, It was all am radio then. WMCA WABC etc. Cousin Brucie, Murry The kay, Wolf Manjack, on, the radio hose, and a few others. Brucie still around I believe. BY the way, There are white people I thought were black cause I have not seen them. Case in point, The Big Bopper, Chantilly Lace. Thanks to youtube, and to my shock, a few years ago, I saw his video of Chantilly lace, and well, he was not a black man after all LOL
Beautiful voices.
First released in 1958. The Platters had "Hit after Hit" in the '50s and early '60s and toured well into the 1970s with several changes of the lineup, however, Tony Williams was the voice on all of their biggest sellers. I saw them at "The Globe Theatre" Stockton-on Tees here in the UK in 1960. Try listening to "I'm Sorry" and "My Prayer" by them also, you won't be disappointed.
one of the classic groups, classic song...
I always enjoy listening to The Platters. My favorite by them is their version of House of the Rising Sun. Many refer to The Animals as the best version but in my humble opinion The Platters version is the best.Edit: Oops. Forgot to mention that their version has a GREAT female lead. Do yourself a favor. Look up this song on UA-cam and check it out!
The song was written by Jerome Kerns and Otto Harbach for a 1933 Broadway musical (Roberta). That musical was reprised as a motion picture at least 3 times, so the song kept coming back into the public consciousness. It was also recorded by numerous artists over the decades, both as a vocal piece, and as an instrumental. It had, however not seen a surge of popularity in the 50s until The Platters recorded their version in 1958 for an album to be released in 1959. Harbach thanked the group and their manager (Buck Ram) for reviving the song. Kern's widow, however, tried to stop them from recording it, and threatened legal action when the single was released. The common explanation is that she was a rasicst and didn't want her husband's legacy sullied about by a black vocal group "tainting" his most famous work. In reality, that seems an absurd argument, since the song had been covered by numerous black artists, from Ertha Kitt and Dinah Washington to Nat King Cole and Harry Belafonte, to Coleman Hawkins and Charlie Parker over the previous 30 some-odd years. Mrs. Kern is said to have hated the finished product, but had no objection to depositing the royalty checks.
The lead singer of the Platters voice is very similar to another great black singer named Nat King Cole his voice is almost identical to the lead singer of The platters and of course Nat King Cole has a lot of nice hits as well and a very nice daughter named after him Natalie Cole who also has some nice songs. Most of her music was in the seventies.
LOL, the "I don't hear color" thing. One of the great things about a lot of these reaction channels is real and casual mentions of "sounded white," "sounded black," etc. No hate; it's just a social reality in the U.S., might as well acknowledge it. Love this song, reminds me of when I was such a little kid, falling asleep in the back seat of my parents' car and hearing songs like this on the radio.
Uncle Royal had great taste in music. Anything by The Platters is great, but this one is one of the most beautiful. Question for all the folks old enough for this to have been your era: Can y'all still sing along with all the lyrics? :)
You need to bienge on 50s, 60s, and some 70s music. The golden age of R&B, Rock and Roll, and Country. There were so many good songs written, do many great voiced and groups. Just UA-cam the area. Don't wait for a suggestion. The songs had music, message and soul. Try "Save the Last Dance for Me", The Drifters. Elvira, the Oakridge Boys. I love them all. You can have the filthy language, hate filled, abusive, political statement RP and Hip Hop noise ( I wouldn't date call it music)
Other great songs by the Platters: TWILIGHT TIME, THE MAGIC TOUCH, THE GREAT PRETENDER, MY PRAYER, ONLY YOU.
I asked a year ago for you to do this song and you've finally got to hear the great Tony Williams. Try "Only You" (my favorite), "My Prayer", "The Great Pretender", and "Twilight Time".
A year ago? I haven't been on that long.
@@Modern-Renaissance-Man Sorry. It sure felt that long though. It's certainly been 6 months though.
@@helgar791 I'm saying that in a joking manner. I think this August will be a year for me.
Listen to the Ink Spots. They are great!
Hello Ty and good evening from the sunshine state. We survived Ian here in the Tampa Bay Area. Sadly many South of us bore the brunt of that storm. I’m not posting however to dwell on that tragic event. I am responding to your review of the Platters song 🎶 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Groups like the Platters, Flamingos, Singer’s like Chubby Checkers, Fat’s Domino I believe were the springboard for Motown and the many talented singers, groups and musicians that came from there. The Platters were in their heyday just a couple years before my tumultuous teens took place. Now a bit North of 70 years those songs still evoke a warm smile or a wistful expression. In closing I’ll add that music 🎼 transcends those unnecessary artificial barriers of “race” that we humans are often want to erect. This old “white” guy and retired long haul trucker appreciates and enjoys that music from those days and it brings good memories. We are all different parts of the same body. The HUMAN RACE! Well all have a part to play. The whole body is not a foot and cannot say to the ear “I have no need of you.” Once we learn that were all the creation of the same loving God and practice treating others as we want to be treated by them? Well the the evil darkness of “racial” prejudice cannot exist in the presence of that light. God bless and watch over you and your loved ones Ty. I’m out. ✝️🙏🏻❤️🤜🏻🤛🏿❤🙏🏻✝️
THANK YOU!!!
White guy? My God! It is the great, never equalled PLATTERS! Perfection, always absolute perfection, always!
Our family won a church raffle and won a stereo turntable.First album dad bought.Didn't appreciate the music then at age 10.
About time someone did the platters greatest group of all time. Lead singer was Tony Williams. Although great this was not their best. Only you.Twilight time. I saw them at the EM club in New London CT in the late sixtys
So many great hits.
Only You - The Platters next please!
I love this song!
Oh..Just saw this..Mom passed last year.....This day in June 2019....Don't remember a day she didn't play this as I grew up.and don't remember a phone call or vid chat she didn't sing me a thanks ty
Always love the Platters.
One of the original do-wop groups.
Look for it live on UA-cam channel it is one fantastic song, also you might want to catch Alan parson project live doing the song "TIME"
Wonderful, Wonderful by Johnny Mathis is also good, and Chances Are!
there is so much good r&b doowop from the 1950s that has much more jump than -- the platters---they were certainly black but they sang in a style that appealed to white audiences which allowed them to make the pop charts rather than the r&b charts. the true r&b doowop vocal group sound did not use violins nearly as much.
I love all the platters song.
Let me stir the pot. I believe the Platters are the original artists to perform Unchained Melody.
My favorite by the Platters, and a little more upbeat, is "With This Ring"
Janetjrfan I’m also more so a fan of the “Sonny Turner era Platters”. With This Ring is a great song! You should check out Washed Ashore by the Platters, one of my favorites and upbeat!
Bryce Younginer another favorite of mine! Beach music!❤️