BLAST FROM THE PAST

@edgarblythe,

From Simons greatest Album (IMHO) and here teamed up with Miriam Makeba to sing a song that became an anthem of human evolution while I was in the middle of a teaching career

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@farmerman,

That's good to me.

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Herb Reed, the last surviving member of The Platters original line-up, has died. They had a number one hit in 1955 with this song . . .

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@Setanta,

Bummer about Herb Reed's passing.

The Platters were far more than a 1-hit wonder group.

"Only You (and You Alone)" and "The Great Pretender were big hits. Then there's "I'm Sorry" , "He's Mine", "Enchanted" and "The Magic Touch". They covered and made hits again out of "My Prayer", "Twilight Time", "Harbor Lights", "To Each His Own", "If I Didn't Care" and Jerome Kern's "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes".

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@Ragman,

An obit i heard on the radio said they recorded more than 400 songs, and charted with 40 of them.

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@Setanta,

Oh, OK. I was just clarifying in case someone might think they had only a single number one hit. When early in their Platter-dom career, when Herb Reed was the lead singer in the mid'-50s they first had those 3 ('Only You' and 'The Great Pretender' and 'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes').

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Hasn't anybody mentioned, "Old Blue Eyes?" Sinatra had multiple incarnations, with careers extending from the 1940s until the 1990s. This is one of my favorites: