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Presents:
the Platters Collection - the Platters
RiPPER..: -=Team OSC=- GENRE......: R&B
LABEL...: n/a SCENE DATE.: 08/21/2004
bITRATE.: VBR/44.1Hz STORE DATE.: 00/00/0000
ENCODER.: Lame TRACKS.....: 20
SiZE....: 85,4 MB SOURCE.....: CDDA
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- TRACKLIST
01 The Great Pretender 03:16
02 Only You 02:45
03 My Prayer 03:25
04 Twilight Time 02:45
05 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 02:30
06 I'm Sorry 02:58
07 With this Ring 02:42
08 Harbour Lights 03:04
09 He's Mine 02:20
10 The Magic Touch 02:41
11 One in A Million 02:03
12 Red Sails in the Sunset 02:19
13 The Platters Mix 07:09
14 Heading Home 02:57
15 Sweet Inspiration 03:12
16 Riding in the Mainline 03:08
17 Cheer Up Brother 03:40
18 Put Your Hand 02:40
19 God Saw the Blood 03:19
20 How Great Thou Art 02:30
Total Playtime: 61:23
- NOTES
The Platters started out as a Los Angeles-based doo wop
group with little identity of their own to make them stand
out from the pack. They started out making their first
records for Federal, a subsidiary of Cincinnati's King
Records. These early sides don't sound anything like the
better-known sides that would eventually emerge from this
group, instead merely aping the current R&B trends and
styles of the day. What changed their fortunes can be
reduced down to one very important name: their mentor,
manager, producer, songwriter, and vocal coach, Buck Ram.
Ram took what many would say were a run-of-the-mill R&B
doo wop vocal group and turned them into stars and one of
the most enduring and lucrative groups of all time. By
1954, Ram was already running a talent agency in Los
Angeles, writing and arranging for publisher Mills Music,
managing the Three Suns -- a pop group with some success
-- and working with his protΘgΘs, the Penguins. The
Platters seemed like a good addition to his stable.
After getting them out of their Federal contract, Ram
placed them with the burgeoning national independent label
Mercury Records (at the same time he brought over the
Penguins following their success with "Earth Angel"),
automatically getting them into pop markets through the
label's distribution contacts alone. Then Ram started
honing in on the group's strengths and weaknesses. The
first thing he did was put the lead vocal status squarely
on the shoulders of lead tenor Tony Williams. Williams'
emoting power was turned up full blast with the group (now
augmented with Zola Taylor from Shirley Gunter & the
Queens) working as very well-structured vocal support
framing his every note. With Ram's pop songwriting
classics as their musical palette, the group quickly
became a pop and R&B success, eventually earning the
distinction of being the first black act of the era to top
the pop charts. Considered the most romantic of all the
doo wop groups (that is, the ultimate in "make out
music"), hit after hit came tumbling forth in a seemingly
effortless manner: "Only You," "The Great Pretender," "My
Prayer," "Twilight Time," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,"
"Harbor Lights," all of them establishing the Platters as
the classiest of all.
Williams struck out on his own in 1961 and, by the
decade's end, the group had disbanded with various members
starting up their own version of the Platters. This bit of
franchising now extends into the present day, with an
estimated 125 sanctioned versions of "the original
Platters" out on the oldies show circuit.
Enjoy!
-As APC puts it:-
BUY THE ORIGNAL. NEVER SELL COPIES. DO NOT DISTRO ON P2P.
Another Quality Release from OSC!!
Enjoy!!
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-NEWS
OSC is still holding it down after more than 2 years in
tha scene. Our dedication to bringing you the best in
ol skool classics is, and always will be, our driving
force. Quality over quantity.
"It's all about the music, fuck the other ish." - OSC
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or XDCC chans.
We DO NOT and NEVER WILL condone the distribution of our
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