{"id":453210,"date":"2021-10-17T05:26:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T05:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/453210\/"},"modified":"2021-10-17T05:26:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T05:26:58","slug":"the-platters-the-great-pretender-%e1%b4%b4%e1%b4%b0-4k-official-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/453210\/","title":{"rendered":"The Platters \u2014 The Great Pretender \u1d34\u1d30 [4K] (Official Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RBj2HN2uuNA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n1959&#8230; #1 Netherlands #1 US Billboard Top 100 #1 US R&#038;B Records #5 UK Singles Charts.. The music was not known as &#8220;doo wop&#8221; at the time &#8211; it was categorized as rock or R&#038;B. Around 1970, Gus Gossert, who was an oldies DJ on WCBS in New York City, started using the term &#8220;doo wopp&#8221; to describe this type of music. Gossert didn&#8217;t come up with the term however &#8211; a record collector named Stan Krause did. Krause helped produce Gossert&#8217;s shows and gave him song information to use on the air. This song describes a man who deals with his heartbreak by denying it &#8211; he&#8217;s mastered the art of smiling through the pain. It was written by The Platters&#8217; producer, Buck Ram, who needed a follow-up to the group&#8217;s first hit, &#8220;Only You.&#8221; Working fast, he wrote the lyrics in the washroom of the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, where the group was performing.<\/p>\n<p>This was used in the movie Rock Around The Clock, and also appeared on the American Graffiti soundtrack along with two other songs by The Platters: &#8220;Smoke Gets in Your Eyes&#8221; and &#8220;Only You.&#8221; You can hear a female voice harmonizing on this song. That would be Zola Taylor, who was brought in as the only female member of The Platters. She was Frankie Lymon&#8217;s second wife, and was portrayed in the movie Why Do Fools Fall In Love by Halle Berry. She died from a stroke in 2007 at age 69. Freddie Mercury revived &#8220;The Great Pretender&#8221; in 1987 when he released his version of a single. It didn&#8217;t make an impact in America, but went to #4 in the UK.. #ThePlatters #DooWop<\/p>\n<p>YouTube : #ClassicHitsStereo<br \/>\niTunes  : https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/artist\/the-platters\/368242<br \/>\nSpotify : https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/6KWcxMWVNVIYbdOQyJtsSy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1959&#8230; #1 Netherlands #1 US Billboard Top 100 #1 US R&#038;B Records #5 UK Singles Charts.. The music was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":453211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[147545,356893,356892,2434,356895,356896,356897,356894,52969],"class_list":{"0":"post-453210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japanese-anime","8":"tag-3840x2160","9":"tag-album-120-soul","10":"tag-artist-the-platters","11":"tag-great-pretender","12":"tag-great-pretender-platters","13":"tag-the-great-pretender-album-by-the-platters","14":"tag-the-great-pretender-the-platters","15":"tag-the-great-pretender-by-the-platters","16":"tag-the-platters-the-great-pretender"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}