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The Best of the Platters | 
| Artist: The Platters
Label: Commercial Marketing
Category: Music
List Price: £5.99
Buy New: £2.98
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 9637
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 48
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 731455173123
EAN: 0731455173123
ASIN: B000007UD3
Release Date: April 26, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Smoke Gets In Your Eyes | | • | The Great Pretender | | • | My Dream | | • | Twilight Time | | • | You'll Never Know | | • | (You've Got) The Magic Touch | | • | One In A Million | | • | Enchanted | | • | I'm Sorry | | • | Only You (And You Alone) | | • | Harbor Lights | | • | Red Sails In The Sunset | | • | I Wish | | • | Sleepy Lagoon | | • | Ebb Tide | | • | Heaven On Earth | | • | Remember When | | • | My Prayer |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 A Satisfied Customer June 4, 2008
I bought this at the request of a friend of my mum's. She lives in a nursing home and has taken an interest in revisiting music of her youth. I've bought several CDs on her behalf but as she and my mum listened to this one she said "It's the best yet". It brought back memories of dancing with her husband when they were both young. She said to mum, "after you go I listen to it again and have a good cry." Her husband had died several years ago.
 You'll Never Know (Unless You Listen) January 9, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Hmmm...yes, original Platters, great. But if you're buying this for their hit "You'll Never Never Know" - don't. Ignorance and/or carelessness prevail. What you get is their version of the Warren/Gordon standard "You'll Never Know" ("...you'll never know just how much I love you, you'll never know just how much I care," etc). In fairness, it does say "You'll Never Know" on the tracklist. But it's credited to the writers of "You'll Never Never Know" (who cop the royalties), so the compiler evidently intended to include the hit "You'll Never Never Know", not the obscure "You'll Never Know"...though not so obscure now, as the error might get propagated throughout digital infinity.
The original hit version of "You'll Never Never Know" is available on the "Anthology" - but that's expensive. One never knows, do one...
Best of the best of... April 22, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This wonderful "cheap" Spectrum compilation of the authentic 50's
Platters is a real treasure. The absolutely best DooWop group of all
times (with the best black voice ever of Tony Williams) can be found
on this CD with unbeatable quality. More than half of the Platters'
Greatest are in full stereo although we're still in the fifties!!
All the charting hits are there. This is a "must" for all record
collectors!!
The Original Recordings April 1, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
These are the original recordings with the great Tony Williams on lead vocals, the cd bears a Spectrum logo which is owned by Universal Music which in turn owns the Platters "Mercury" recordings fron 1955-1961 which is ther classic period, a great cheep cd with all the major recordings, agreat listen from start to end clocking in at 47 mins.
First black vocal group to become major stars March 1, 2005
28 out of 31 found this review helpful
In the fifties, it was hard for black singers to sell music to white record buyers, but the Platters managed to do just that, thus helping to blaze the trail for the many others that followed. Some of their songs were covers of songs from the thirties and forties, suitably updated for the fifties. Some people mistakenly think of songs such as Smoke gets in your eyes and Harbor lights (both dating from the thirties) as being Platters originals - I was among them for many years.The Platters were much more successful in America than in Britain, but the few UK hits that they had have left a lasting impression. The great pretender (a 1987 top five UK hit for Freddie Mercury), Smoke gets in your eyes (a 1974 top twenty UK hit for Bryan Ferry) and Only you (a minor hit for several artists down the years) have all charted for other artists since the Platters charted with them in the fifties. Although this is the first of two volumes, it contains all of their most famous recordings, whether they are originals or covers. Apart from those already mentioned, their other British hits include Twilight time, My praer, You'll never never know, I'm sorry and Remember when. The only one not here is It isn't right - it was the flip side of You'll never never know and you can find it on volume 2. If you just want a single CD containing their important tracks, this will do. If you enjoy it enough, you can always buy volume 2 later.
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