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The Platters
With their classic mid-1950s hits Only You, The Great Pretender and My Prayer -
blending R&B, doo-wop and gospel with a modern pop production style - The
Platters were effectively forerunners of rock'n'roll. Originally formed in Los
Angeles in 1953, they toured regularly with a variety of different line-ups
without managing to come up with a hit record until Only You - a song their
manager/arranger/producer Buck Ram initially wrote with the Ink Spots in mind -
became a huge hit in 1955. The follow-up, the soaring The Great Pretender
(supposedly written by Ram in the washroom of a...
