#the platters

[in-our-special-place]

Oh-oh, yes, I'm the great pretender

Pretending that I'm doing well

My need is such, I pretend too much

I'm lonely, but no one can tell

Oh-oh, yes, I'm the great pretender

Adrift in a world of my own

I played the game but to my real shame

You've left me to grieve all alone

-The Great Pretender the Platters

#fellow travelers #hawk x tim #hawk x skippy #jonathan bailey #tim x hawk #hawkins fuller #matt bomer #skippy x hawk #tim laughlin #50s music #the platters

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today, on 23rd February, 1987

Freddie Mercury released his 7th solo single ”The Great Pretender”/ "Exercises In Free Love" - Successful, reaching No4 in charts.

David Wigg: Do you feel in um, that you have been, that you're, you said you feel you're re-living your life, do you feel you've been the big pretender?

Freddie Mercury: Basically it's, it's what the song really says is a very sort of one to one basis about, that he's pretending because she's um, gone, but he's still pretending that she's still around, basically that's (David: yes) but I thought that you could sort of take it a lot further in, just in the word 'pretender', (David: yes) so that, so that pretence, and for me, the way I'm doing this is that, you know it's tongue-in-cheek and not to take everything too seriously, that all these sort of visuals and these sort of, these images that I've portrayed over the years, is a kind of pretence, because I mean there's no way that I was real on stage, these, I, I wore costumes and I sort of put myself into different atmospheres and different characters, but underneath all that there is a real me which, you know, so, so I just thought why not, you know, I, I've been pretending all this time, you know, doing all this stuff, wearing my bananas on my head, you know, coming on peoples shoulders, wearing glitter, doing this, doing glam, wearing, you know, wearing, it was all, kind of thing, and it's, it's a kind of pretence, yes, whereas I mean, you know, underneath it I'm still, you know, a musician and so I thought I'd, I'd bring it up to the, in that level, where all these sort of costumes, where a lot of people took it so seriously, well I didn't, you know, give a damn, I just thought my God, you know, and they read far too much into it, I just thought that this is a nice way of sort of um, covering this whole sort of era of mine, call it, and um, say that look, it, it's just been a bit of fun, you know actors don't, I know, they portray somebody, they don't become those people, they go back and do something else, you know

- Freddie Mercury interview, Ibiza 1987

by David Wigg

Songs:

- ”The Great Pretender” cover version of The Platters’ 1955 original

- "Exercises In Free Love" written by Freddie Mercury / Mike Moran

Written by Freddie as his impersonation of Montserrat's vocal style. She was so enamored with the song that she insisted on recording her own version. The melody was later reused for 'Ensueño', with a set of lyrics written by Montserrat

📸 Photo by Richard Young

#1987 #the great pretender #the platters #1956 #exercises in free love #freddie mercury #queen band #london #zanzibar #legend #queen #brian may #john deacon #freddiebulsara #roger taylor #richard young #montserrat caballé #david wigg #interview #Spotify

[vintage-every-day]

The Platters - "To Each His Own". The Platters released  their version on Mercury Records in October 1960.

#vintage #music #the platters

[cultreslut]

the platters, going back to detroit, 1967

archive / discogs

#the platters #soul #soul music #album covers #album art #design #1960s #60s #my post

[my-passionate-life-bw]

#the platters

[jinxdragon]

i didnt fully realise the impact of only you until i heard it in the fallout tv series and it activated fight or flight

#far cry 5 #fc5 #fallout #fallout show #jacob seed #only you #the platters

[fuck-you-upmusicbracket]

It Means Everything (Omori)

"Its so fucked up.... it is so regret and lashing out at people and being messed up in a way that people should understand but dont 👍"

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (The Platters)

Yet today my love has flown away/I am without my love/Now laughing friends deride/Tears I cannot hide, Oh So I smile and say/"When a lovely flame dies/Smoke gets in your eyes"

"It's the way he WAILS that "Oh" throughout the song... it's such a short song but goes straight to the heart with such intensity I have it at the top of my weirdly specific "Wallow In Empathy For Other People's Pain" playlist, lol. Plus it's a key song in the 1989 movie Always, which is about a guy who dies and becomes a ghost and watches his widow fall in love with someone else. So ya know. There's a lot of Feeling there."

#fuck you up bracket #tournament #polls #omori #the platters

[vinyl-artwork]

The Platters, 1957.

Federal cover.

#The Platters #1957 #1950s #Federal

[serpentinesheldonserpentine]

#it took five attempts before I found the mono version of this gem #The Platters #Spotify

[fleetsparrow]

The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

They asked me how I knew my true love was true Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, I, of course replied "Something here inside cannot be denied" They said, "Someday, you'll find all who love are blind Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, when your heart's on fire You must realize smoke gets in your eyes" So, I chaffed them, and I gaily laughed To think they could doubt my love Yet, today, my love has flown away I am without my love Now, laughing friends deride tears I cannot hide Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, so I smile and say "When a lovely flame dies Smoke gets in your eyes" Smoke gets in your eyes

Bruce listens to this on repeat when Dick goes to college Titans Tower Bludhaven

#music #the platters #just saying #BruceDick #Drama Bat

[in-our-special-place]

There is one in a million like you

A dream in a million come true

I confess that I really don't know why

But I know that I glow like I do

Only once in a lifetime is par

To find someone rare as you are

But now you're around

I have really found

That there's one in a million like you

-One in a Million The Platters

#fellow travelers #hawk x tim #hawk x skippy #matt bomer #hawkins fuller #jonathan bailey #tim x hawk #skippy x hawk #tim laughlin #50s music #1950s music #the platters

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today, on 12th February, 1987

Freddie Mercury filmed “The Great Pretender” video, Battersea, London, UK, Director David Mallet

Version of The Platters 1956 hit

Mercury's music video for the song featured him parodying himself in many of his Queen guises through video medium over the years, including visual re-takes of: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", "Radio Ga Ga", "It's A Hard Life", "I Want To Break Free", "I Was Born To Love You", "One Vision".

- On the set with Freddie also Roger Taylor and Peter Straker

Pic: February 1987 - Freddie Mercury shaves his moustache during ' The Great Pretender' promotional video

📸 Photographer Richard Young/Rex Features/EAST NEWS

#peter straker #1987 #legend #queen #brian may #john deacon #freddiebulsara #zanzibar #london #queen band #roger taylor #freddie mercury #the platters #1956 #the great pretender #davidmallet #richard young

[moviesiveseenandwanttoremember]

Frank Tashlin’s “The Girl Can’t Help It” December 1, 1956.

#Frank Tashlin #The Girl Can't Help It #1956 #Fifties #Romantic Comedy #Jayne Mansfield #Little Richard #Fats Domino #Gene Vincent #The Platters #Rock 'n' Roll #1/5

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #7: 1956

One of the interesting things about doing these polls is seeing how going through each decade starts to feel like a countdown to some great cultural moment. I imagine the 60s polls will feel like a countdown to Beatlemania, the 70s to disco, the 80s to the MTV era, the 90s to grunge, the 00s to the mp3 era, and the 10s to streaming. And the 50s felt like a countdown to Elvis Presley.

So much has already been said about Elvis, from his "King of Rock and Roll" moniker; to his producer' Sam Phillips' infamous quote about making a billion dollars using a white man to make Black music; to the numerous controversies and legends that could only be attached to a figure of this level of cultural impact -- for better or for worse. As many know, one of the Elvis songs featured in this poll, Hound Dog, was a cover of the blues song originally recorded by Big Mama Thornton. For the sake of these polls, the songs will be voted based on the versions that reached the Billboard charts. However, I still found it important to highlight the song's origins. Many may also know that his rendition of Hound Dog lead to an outrage of controversy, because he had the audacity to move his h*ps on The Milton Berle Show.

If you disregard Elvis the Pelvis, however, the top of the 1956 charts may not feel all that different from prior years. We still see a lot of the traditional pop, vocal quartets, and jazz standards we've grown accustomed to. Which makes sense. Not only do changes rarely happen overnight, but the full snapshot of the culture at any given time can rarely be seen in the Billboard charts -- much less the top ten picks from said chart. However, something is definitely different.

In my opinion, the most telling evidence of this change isn't Elvis Presley. It's Kay Starr's Rock and Roll Waltz. For one, it's a novelty song -- a style of music popular in this decade and will only see more popularity as we move into the 60s. But it goes beyond that. The joke of the song is that the narrator of the song sees her parents try to dance the waltz to this new "rock and roll" music, and she's commenting on the absurdity of it. As the song says, "it's old, but it's new". Some less charitable modern listeners may even call it the "how do you do, fellow kids?" of 1956. That's how you know that something is shifting in the culture, and record labels are scrambling to catch up.

In addition to the change in sound, 1956 also brings us an expanded Billboard Chart to pull from. With more young people listening to their own music, charts began to focus more on retail record sales, rather than performances in public venues like previous years. However, we're still a few years away from the Billboard Top 100.

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#billboard poll #billboard music #1950s #1950s music #tumblr poll #music poll #music history #1956 #elvis presley #nelson riddle #the platters #gogi grant #les baxter #doris day #dean martin

[brenna]

the vibe for march 28th is purple flowers peaking out at last. i finally cleaned the used records i bought last weekend, and the platters one sounds amazing. rest assured that quinn immediately jumped on the table after i took this shot. smh. it's pretty grackles and sun moving on the walls. this is where i tell you that pierogies are best with burnt onions on them. it's just a fact.

#i also hit my follower milestone today #i never know if it's gauche to say #but i always want to know how many other people have because #i'm nosy #i haven't listened to the roy orbison records yet #they might also sound amazing i just don't know yet #vinyl #flowers #cats #quinn #pierogi #common grackle #birds #the platters #roy orbison #dappermouth #the vibe for #brenna

[domquixotedospobresblog]

#the platters #music #my playlist