PROVIDENCE – The smooth harmonies of The Platters helped shift the landscape of music in the 1950s at a time of fierce racial divides in America. It is said that the popular DJ Alan Freed ...

BOSTON (AP) — Herb Reed, the last surviving original member of 1950s vocal group the Platters who sang on hits like "Only You" and "The Great Pretender," has died. He was 83. Reed died on Monday in a ...

Rubicon Theatre, Ventura County's leading not-for-profit theatrical organization committed to entertaining, engaging and enriching the community through live performance, will present the grand finale ...

I've always enjoyed listening to such standards as "Only You," "The Great Pretender" and "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" by The Platters. But, they were before my time -- in the mid- to late-'50s -- and ...

In the mid-1950s, rock 'n' roll was shaking up the airwaves, and one of the early vocal groups to give it life was The Platters. In "The Early Show"'s "Time Machine" series, "The Platters" appeared on ...

Led by singer Tony Williams, the Platters were one of the mid- to late-1950s' top vocal groups. In 1955, as rough-edge rock 'n' roll was taking center stage, the Platters' ultra-smooth renditions of ...

The Drifters, Cornell Gunter’s Coasters and The Platters. Any one of these rock and roll legends is capable of turning back the clock and generating a jukebox full of classic songs, such as “Under the ...