May 15 2024 my 25th wedding anniversary and we danced this song at my wedding party 25 years ago …

Listen to the platters great pretender

turning 26 soon. cheers

44 here. When someone says, 'old big band music', I think of Frank Sinatra and the like. Either way, I love this stuff too. Always been drawn to older music. Nice to see someone younger loving this great music.

1984 here too

Love the song

I studied classical piano on and off for about 10 years and it love it. But you still can’t beat a fantastic tune and this is certainly one

love this song so much!!

@@mingmaster3265 I know right!?

I listen to them on my record player, have the original album with cover , scratches here there , great album

Thank you and may your lovely wishes boomerang right back to you, dear.

Hey dear Friends,i saw this comment Just in time.actually i need so much prayers for me and my kids.thank you so much for your Kind words.may god Bless you forever.much Love from Germany

@@sengarekram6087 I can't make your suffering disappear, nor can I predict the future, but I know you will have enough faith and strength to overcome it 💗

@@sengarekram6087 I hope that life starts getting happier and healthier for you and your family. Thinking of you.

Thank you, you are lovely 🤍 Let everything good and beautiful return to you

I wasn't born until 1979, but I am so thankful that my parents raised me on the best music, as did their parents. I have always been drawn to music before my time. And I passed it down to my kids. They do like some music that I grew up with though too.

I'm a 1950 baby Boomer. We were exposed to the BEST music EVER

😊😅965theplattera​@@JessJoanne

I'm a 1950 girl. Romantic music has a special place in my heart.

Your mother still listens to this music. No I don't care that she's dead.

Such a sad memory but a beautiful song to remind you.

ONE OF IF NOT THE BEST SLOW DANCING SONGS EVER IOT NEVER GETS OLD TONYY WAS A HELL OF A SINGER

Well a I'm a dinosaur too, but a Trex

@@GC-bb2io go to the gym, build those arms a little more😅

@@adotintheshark4848 😅

Dinosauring too 🤪

Lots

I prefer to listen to this type than the nasty/condescending/racist/sexist potty mouth rap and some hip hop.

Me.....great song too!

❤

How caring that your family supported your father in that final journey. I hope there's a heaven for him to be in.

Damn dude... that cut me deep. God bless you man she is in a better place waiting to see you again

❤

Deeply sorry for your loss, it you still have her and those beautiful memories.

Bless 😢you x

Me😢

Que bonita cancion .genial

And the Flamingos I only have eyes for you.

Righteous brothers

Totally agree. So melodic.

i dont think its actually a love song

You have my vote!

Mine too!!!

It is one of the greatest love songs of all times!

@@VV-nz4dv It is dang close if not.

you said it quite poetically😊😊

they were the best, saw them perform, I love all the old 50,60's music, a lot o them was played at Folly Bach and Myrtle Beach, SC those rally were the great old days!!!!!!!!!!

My high school years, this was THE SONG. This was when you asked HER to dance, HER, SHE ... THE SPECIAL ONE ... ahhh , ... sinfully erotic, and we didn't even know what that meant...

I feel you! I am no longer young, but I have been listening to the 50s music since my teens! I got the Platters Greatest Hits album when I was 15 years old. Love the group --- and Tony Williams is one of the greatest tenors of all times!

Timeless sonic alchemy.💮🏵️🌹🥀🌺🌻💐🌸🌼🌻🌺🥀🌹🏵️🏵️💮🌷💮🏵️🌹🥀🥀🌺🌻🌼🌼🐝🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 Like Shakespeare said, you are a man born out of seasons; or are a renaissance man.

I'm 15 and I love it too❤❤

whack lmao

Written in 1933 by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. I prefer Earth Kitty's version, myself. I'm sure you'd also love, Kern's, 'Long Ago and Far Away'.

Thanks for you because you and all the others who appreciate give me hope the human race just may successfully succeed after all the horrific past history is some day all totally gone

I wish you and yours all the best and many more happy years together. Paul in Praque

Congratulations...and many more.

Paul in Praque. Dank je wel.

@@patriciajohnson6653 Thank you so much.

I am 82 and still love them

Its true, because the voice of Tony Williams is amazing

@Nathan Barnes No doubt😓

I m listening

Exactly. Never heard it put better. He was perfect.

Reminds me of paul Anka's voice

Don’t lose those memories.

Sorry for your loss. Keep her memory's alive. She will live on forever :)

🙏❤️

Hugs from Puerto Rico

Disgusting 🤢

they wouldn't know how to if their life depended on it...

Brings back memories full of love. Thank you Platters !

from Europe, almost winter 2022

amen!

Fell in LOVE with the Platters as a young gal.....My Daddy introduced all these fabulous groups of the 50's!!! I was born in 58'.....so I had some catching up to do!!! WHAT AN AMAZING TIME FOR MUSIC!!!! I loved doing "The Stroll" with my Daddy!!! Rest peacefully Daddy!!! ❤

absolutely.........

I agree with you the best.

It makes me feel sad; I was a child at that time, you understand...

Hurts

​@@elainestanton1376blbullum

me too

Tony williams is so lucky having a supporter like you grandpa❤️

Roadhou

Same for this 78 year old, grandpa!!!

I too love.I m 74

How lovely that you had the wonderful dances together that you did have. What treasured memories!

I just was telling my lady that 5 minutes ago

It's moving.

You then, ARE qualified to make such an assessment....and you are correct !

As close to a perfect recording as you can get! Tony Williams' voice was absolutely spectacular! The definition of a golden voice!

Tony's (and the rest of the) vocals add a bit, too

Old school never dies ❤️

@@MsPancake555 Amen to that. I was privileged to see the Platters live 40 some odd years ago at the Solono County Fair. What a fantastic thrill that was.

@@harrisonmantooth3647 Wow! You lucky thing! What a memory for you ❤

@@harrisonmantooth3647 I was born in 1961, so I had to wait a few years after that to hear them. I got a transistor radio at age 4, wink.

@@tonycollazorappo👍😊 I was a Sophomore getting ready to move up to a Junior in High School in 1961. I feel very privileged to have been a part of that era. There were so many great singing groups back then, singing songs you could understand.

Мне 65 Кубань, Россия.

​@@user-ig7xk9hs4vblessings to you, in Cuba. Be strong. Be calm.

Real music

sadly

Romanticism, Respect,Chivalry is lost today from a bygone era. This music is pure class.

Yes, we have lost something like romanticism? May be but we always are changing, and that is a reality. Let’s go to wait for the best, with the blessings of God.

Margarita Fernandez Yes I agree Margarita Have a nice day and may God be with you👋

Just cant be a Twitch

Y8

Happy and sad memories 😐

Yes

Yes, it is great!

Lucky you. I would have loved to have seen it at such age but I was only 4 when the song came out. My older brother had a radio so I at least remember it being played a lot.

I do I'm 16 💕💕💕

I pray you will one day be reunited

You might like "Harbor Lights" too.

Oh that, that's the oriental one.

The love of God Almighty is in the voice of the lead singer. and having Sam Cooke and Luther vandross in this world is a little more of God's love as a gift to the world

This is what music should be like when you get on the dance floor! The Grace of the words of the song when you look in to each other's eyes !❤

@Luis Madera BIG thanks and bright Blessings to you, dear Luis!!! 🌈🌞🌈

Please, let's not mix up religion with this beautiful art.

@@ulicesgonzalez6094 FOR ME, every beautiful thing in the world is a gift of God, of course also music. And I have the right to say that!!! Amen!!! 🎶💖🎶

Ah but good music keeps my mood feeling young so my age (68) doesn't matter.

Hi Marc, I was listening to the beautiful Smoke Gets In Your Eyes and found your upload of Somewhere Out There. Now I never knew anyone sang that song except the little mouse in An American Tail🙄. I am not ashamed to say there were tears in my eyes.Thanks You from 🇨🇮. I will have to try the beetroot juice and the ab workout next!

Indeed! Great to listen to in times like this; a beautiful music older than me.👍❤

I m too! I love the Platters! From Hungary

Me too

Il etait une fois....

Vdd👏♥️👍💞

Que saudades daqueles tempos.... de doer! Eramos felizes e não sabiamos!

Esta é a música mais linda que existe. Não pensei que um homem gostasse dela. Parabéns por sua sensibilidade 🌹

Tenho 33 anos, escutava essa música no CD Golden Oldies, era a faixa n⁰ 3 salvo engano, isso com 12 anos de idade, o CD era de meu saudoso pai, ele cresceu nos anos 60!. Nunca mais esqueci!!! Ouvia o CD quase todos os dias. Conheci Ray Charles, Bee Gees, The Platters, The Mamas and The Papas! Todos, presentes no CD.

Eu conheci essa música recentemente no filme além da eternidade do Spielberg, assim que o filme acabou eu não consegui tirar ela da cabeça, incrível 😍

Smoke gets in your eyes, half the country’s on fire... 🙃

Yup just belting it out before bed 👍😁

September162020🤗

Sept. 18, 2020...still one of the best groups, ever...they are timeless.

Now used in the trailer of wanda vision

We were used up...They never really cared about us and now that there are to many of us they want us gone. They knew the system would not last long until it self implodes! Its all over cooked and corrupt...Greed ans lies...You can not abuse humans like they have since the 1940's and expect them to turn out happy! People have been over worked and stressed to death since the early 1970's...Today is the end result of this and can you blame people? who wants to work 80 hours a week only to barely feed their kids and selves and listen to lying corrupt politicians telling them every year things will change? That's what happened to us...In a short version....People know their lives are meaningless! And not everyone wants to be rich and famous, just human. People are sad and know that their lives are being wasted, so why stay moral and beautiful????

@@heidisanderson7768 You are heartbreakingly right! I will be 72 at the end of the year and I remember better times when even uneducated people worked 40 hours a week and it was enough to provide a decent life style.

Things change that's what happened.

@@tyxikosgatopoulos3094 i just recently turned 20 and people my age just lost all their hope i think. Everything is about money, looks and fame. I really would have liked to experience a time where life was more simple :')

What happened was that we (the Allies) won the Second World War and then the Cold War (temporarily). This resulted in integration of Germany, the rest of Europe, the Americas, and eventually (starting in 2001) the CCP into the US-led global economic system. Additionally, the US workforce effectively doubled in size by integrating women into it beginning in the 1970s. The result was massive downward pressure on wages and the migration of skilled and unskilled labor jobs to those other participant countries, and in the case of the PRC, many of the factories and their equipment as well. What is left is a service economy. What we gained was a relative peace with no cataclysmic wars. The overwhelming beneficiaries of this system, however, are the financial and ruling elites, and the American (and perhaps British and European) middle class has gradually lost out. Along with these changes have come moral degeneration and a loss of societal cohesion. The 1950s and early 1960s were a product of the post-war reconstruction, Cold War spending, and the fiber of the Greatest Generation. They have left us now, along with their wisdom. It can be reversed, but not without changing our ways, which we won't do, because too many people enjoy the animal pleasures now being used to sedate them ... like animals.

Um dos maiores grupos românticos de todos os tempos...

...you kids and your music...

Why did you copy

No way to go back but we can live longer

mon bejariel Amen true music.

And sang won from beginning to end with no edits and thrilled the audience every time !!!!

@@billyjean2349 It's an undeniable fact, there was no autotune

And that is a massive difference in the help they get today, obviously, there are people now with the talent, its the material they have not got! That's the problem. It has to be out there somewhere?

@@gilfavor1river "Material they have not got"? Do you seriously believe all music nowadays uses autotune? Hell, I've had this discussion with a lot of people and I always hear stupid excuses why "modern music bad, old music good". In this case, you seem to be using my favorite "there was no autotune" excuse, which is pretty dumb and only shows the lack of effort put in by yourself to sift through the hundreds of artists nowadays that do not use autotune. Again, pretty lazy if you ask me.

I saw the trailer of the movie, thus coming hear to hear this amazing song.

My mother and I used to put this record on and dance all night....that was in 1980! She still knew all the words at the end of her life, with alzheimers. She couldn't talk anymore, but she sang all of the words when I played it for her. I miss my mom.