I'm 51, My late Dad introduced this amazing greatness to me

I just lost my Uncle, who was a local musician. And this song brings him back to me. Thank you.

Although I know noone Is gonna read that comment, I am 21 and I think this is masterpiece.

*The Platters created timeless ballads like 'Only You' and 'The Great Pretender' - songs that are still loved and sung by many generations to come*

I have listened to this group since I was 8 years old. I am 72 and still enjoy listening to them. The music puts me back in time when life was much easier to enjoy.

Im 35 always love this era's songs. Best and will never get back 🥲 bittersweet

An all time classic that has stood against the test of time, challenging the modern stuff masquerading as tunes.

One of the finest songs ever written, by one of the finest groups.

Im 28 and I love the Platters ❤

Me too, listening this music when I was 9, influenced with my elder, it was his favored, now I‘m 73. My brother passed away, everytime I heard this music it remind me with tears.

My earliest memory is my dad playing this song on a cassette, so every time I hear it I can remember that moment perfectly. It's a really intense mix of feelings.

I love this song. My mother introduced me to amazing music as a child. We would crank it up and do housework together. The music keeps these beautiful memories intact

Majority of people can relate to this song its great song.

Tony Williams had one of the most amazing voices I have ever heard. Pure class. Truly remarkable !

My mum and dads record love. I grew up on the platters I'm 48 and enjoy them greatly.

The land of my ancestors ❤🇰🇪❤ Haven't lived there in 36 yrs, but we always physically reunite now and then but stay spiritually connected always.

Our kids grew up listening to the Platters. Endless memories!!

My grandfather passed away in June. He loved to sing and this was the last song he sang to me, it was his favorite song

this is the kind of supreme musical talent that Black people hold in potential that they could easily carry out into reality if only they are willing to do so

this kind of classic songs make my soul calm even just for a while

The Platters have been my favorite group since I was 20 now I am 74

the purity is quite incredible. nothing today even compares.

The Platters. Gracias por las maravillas canciones. Bellos recuerdos de mi adolescencia.Me encantan.🤗🇪🇦🌹

I'm 23 years old now but this kind of music makes my soul dance with joy. What a great song indeed. Very calm, playing this song reminds me of my childhood.

I asked my my mom to pick any song and she picked this one. When I played this she just sat back, closed her eyes, and sang along, even though it's probably been a long time since she's heard it. Thanks for posting!

I'm from Brazil, and I grew up on my parents listen musics like this, I love !!! I'm so gratefull to my parents for the great taste in music. 2024

I could literally listen for a couple Hours!

Its something..when you see a group, decked out to the 9's, smooth as silk, singing songs based on what would describe a ballad. Over 50 years since this song came out and it still hits home with its message. Its okay to be depressed when you use your depression to reach the deepest depths within your soul and come up with something like this. Great poets cannot become great unless they experience the depths which they use as stanzas in their poems. This song is a great poem...makes me look back over the years which I can see so vividly. I wonder how people can pass on and leave such a legacy behind..."The Great Pretender", a legacy of poetry, love, depression and HOPE. He put his soul into this song, the rest of the group exclaimed it..........Great...

I loved this song as a young child. It holds the same today as yesteryear. Yes, I'm the great pretender. I seem to be what I'm not, you see. I'm wearing my heart like a crown. Pretending that you're still around. What a classic song. Thanks for sharing.

What a lovely song! People that days still knew what was good. Something different compared to some of the terrible stuff played nowadays. I think the artists aspeccially from the 50s and 60s did an exellent job and they where just a pleasure to listen to.

I always love this song still listening in 2024 Ricky was very talented young man

One of the Best Songs Ever!

Not denying that Freddie's voice was great - the original version of this song is divine either. And since it's The Platters video we have to give some credit to this great band for making such an amazing masterpiece.

This was one of my dad's all time favorite songs. I played it at his service. Puts a smile on my face when I hear it, as I can still see his face as he sang every word and danced like he wasn't even touching the floor. I miss you so much Daddy! ❤ You're still around!

I’m an old soul who collects a lot of cassette tapes where I can find them, and I found one with this song, and have absolutely fell in love with this song. One of my favorites from the tapes I’ve so far collected

Black music: From the beautiful doo wop, blues and rockabilly ( Chuck Berry ) to hip hop and mumble rap. What a sad story 😭

Songs that never die, no matter how many times you hear these songs

So in love with this song. Absolutely love it! I'm a huge oldirs fan. There's just something about these songs that just make you feel good and it's just so peaceful.. even if its a song about heartbreak it still makes you feel good. The harmony, the melody, the pitch, the music its just Beautiful. My goodness I love this music💜 I've always loved this song since my mom has shown me it

Sheer perfection , beautiful

This song was a big hit on the radio!

I love this song

Such exquisite harmony!! beautiful voices with profound feeling!! the song and the singers touch my heart!!

the great pretender````````Beautiful song

"pretending that you're still around" this is what we're doin"

Still wonderful after all these years.

such quality sung with depth and emotion make me think about lot people pretending to be what they not you see

Omg I completely forgot about this song😍😍😍😍 I love these old songs so much

Im 27 still listening to this. Also like Tom Jones, Paul Anka, Matt Monro Etc.. 🤭🤭🤭

I'm 59 years old Remembering my Mother & Father danced to this Song I love it yes I Love it 💕💕💕💕💕🕊🥰

Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist brought me here. Such a powerfully resonating song.

My parents, especially my Dad, passed his love of The Platters down to me. I am blessed to have them with such incredible taste and we're blessed that music like this existed. It's hard to put this greatness of The Platters in words. I like to call this music magic!

Buddy Holly Frank Sinatra and Hank Williams Sr are the very best in their field of music I have all of their records that I know of

I always hear this at 3pm on the radio when I was a kid. Now I came looking for it and finally found it. This is gold.

One wonders how anyone could possibly take that position. Whether you like queen or not, most people can agree that Freddie's voice was divine.

This is one hell of a song that I love these days. It strikes me.. literally breaks my heart, as it is not easy to be me. The life I am in is difficult. Truly, there are things that money can not buy. And every time I listened to this song, it made me think that I must be fooling myself that God is still around.

The best version of great pretender ...platters my all time favorite

Queen does a fantastic rendition of The Great Pretender! It led me here, I'm not surprised Freddie Mercury would've loved the Platters.

Omg this song takes me back to when my older sister was with us living in Britain. Every Sunday she would call me and she would play this song and i knew she was missing our dad who had passed away. She has now passed and whenever I'm feeling blue i play this song. God bless these guys wherever they are today.❤❤❤💋💋💋

Que voces y que letras hermosas! The Platters el mejor grupo de todos los tiempos

Wow! The Platters sound incredible.

30 years ago I would hold my 2 year old nephew & dance to this. It was a classic then, & even more so now. Still a great song.

This song brings so many memories. I remember my mother and my Aunt Linda dancing to this song. My Aunt would play The Platters religiously.

A Classic Song 🎵 thanks for the memories ❤

One of the best of The Platter's song...the song reminds us not to be practicing ghis kind of attitude to avoid a lot of sorrows and prblems as well,having an honest nd true Godly lifestyle will bring you more peace,satisfactions nd happiness in life

My husband loves singing and i found this lovely song and asked him to learn and sing it to me. I love it so much. So he is learning it so fast, first attempt went so well. So proud of you Mark. Love you. Xx

Amazing song

At 5 years old...I'd lip~sync in the mirror. And... Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Favorites and memories. . Bless ya'll all! (Pssst how am I doing Holly Polly & Geri~Eric? Good, want ya'll happy!)

요즘 들어도 좋네요~

I wonder how they came up with this incredible, deep, soul stirring song that probably resonates with everyone on this planet...

This is the greatest song in the countless years of music, this is my favorite. The piano, the harmony, the words, This, Only You, and My Prayer brought black music to the forefront. Just where it belonged I should add!!!

After Only You, I think this is the most beatifull song of The Platters. I was nine years old when listened it the first time in 1956, and now, sixty six years after, my feeling is the same. I enjoy The Platerrs's songs with my parents many times.

Napakagandang awitin ng mga platters 74 na ko at walang sawang nakikinig sa mga awiting ito...wala talagang kamatayan ang mga awiting ito ..

I was ten when this was released, I have heard thousands of songs over my many years, and this one is without a doubt my favorite, nothing outranks it. My Prayer, the Platters though comes close. 1955 56 and 57,Elvis and the Platters ruled music totally!!! This, My Prayer, Only You, and Heartbreak Hotel, Hound Dog, All Shook Up, and Don't be Cruel, seven musical gems from the mid 50's!!!!

Tony Williams, Herb Reed, Paul Robi, Zola Taylor, David Lynch, Plas Johnson, Buck Ram....THANK YOU.

My great grandmother really enjoyed growing up with music from The Platters when she was young. Those were the days in the old days back when the world wasn't dangerous at all. 👍🏻 if you agree and downloaded this song from this artist to your 📱s.

Trrue i love all these songs xxxxxxxxx

This song is seriously one of the best ever written and performed...

Just One Off the very best singles of 1956 Just a timeless classic hit single from 1956

I love this song, and "smoke gets in your eyes". 2 of my all time favorite songs from that era of awesome music! When I hear this music it just makes me feel good and at the same time a little sad as I long for days gone by!

We are all pretenders. Thank you platters for this song. Can't download it from youtube but I keeping it saved in my personal playlist. "Yes I'm the great pretender" 😢😢😭😭 "Ou ou"😔😞😒😞😏😊

A recent TV programme reminded me of this song. This sounds like the original release, and so emotionally direct and unaffected in it's musicality that later versions sound, with the notable exception of Roy Orbison, contrived by comparison. I listen mainly to classical music, but there are great pop songs and this must be right up there with the best ever.

On this day in 1957 {October 27th} the Platters performed "The Great Pretender" on the CBS-TV Sunday night program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'... Just under two years earlier on December 1st, 1955 the song entered Billboard's Top 100 chart at position #41; nine weeks later on February 2nd, 1956 it peaked at #1 {for 2 weeks} and it spent almost a half-year on the Top 100 {24 weeks}... And on December 22nd, 1955 it reached #1 {for 11 weeks} on Billboard's R&B Singles chart; and for 7 of those 11 weeks Little Richard's "Tutti-Frutti" was the record in the #2 spot... Between 1955 and 1967 the Los Angeles-based quintet had thirty-nine Top 100 records; seven made the Top 10 with four reaching #1, their three other #1 records were "My Prayer" for 5 weeks in 1956, "Twilight time" for 1 week in 1958, and "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" for 3 weeks in 1959... They just missed having nine Top 10 records when both "You'll Never Never Know" {1956} and "I'm Sorry" {1957} peaked at #2 on the Top 100... Sadly, all five original members of the group have passed away; the last being bassist Herb Reed on June 4th, 2012 at the age of 83... May they all R.I.P.

I dont know why kids wouldn't like this song. I mean i am 11 years old and i absolutely enjoy this. My grandfather used to play this at DVD's and i miss him since he died in 2013... i was so close to him. I feel like he is still alive when i play this song... I Love him so much. He died when i was 6.

Excuse me while I show my age, but this is the kind of music I grew up listening too. And it just feels so good to go back every now and then and listen to this stuff.

Tony Williams is one of the greatest vocalists of all time. Truly an underrated but talented group!

I'm playing this and others for my gran and she loves it 😆

I saw them live in concert many years ago, and they sounded as good live, a night that still makes me smile

Good song as what the song says is what many people do. They pretend to be what they are not. We should be ourselves, with our talents and limitations, without trying to hide any of them. By being authentic, we shall be happier.

Fun fact: This was released under the “Mercury Records” label. 32 years later, Freddie *Mercury* released this same song on the same label.

Thank you! Greate singers! Спасибо! Великолепные певцы!

I love listening to these songs

Un groupe génial . Je les écouterai longtemps . Remerciements pour toute la joie apportée au peuple .

I'm so in love with this song. I'm cracking up when listening.

With this song in 1955 I learned to dance. Taught me a little blond girl that I I liked so much, her name was Sandra. To day who knows where she is....

April 27 2019 I'm happy at this moment, I've been singing with The Platters. Marvelous emotion ! Simon Dumais Rimouski Quebec

フレディの声ば最高に綺麗でした、そして歌が最高に上手でした。フレディ永遠に!

This song is way too relatable.This is exactly my life.

I love his voice I love this kinda music and I'm 19 lol haha x

You left me to grieve alone!

何100回聴いても、しびれますね。 この時代に生まれたかった。