I am. I'm 67. I had a sister who was 17 years older than me. She had Platters albums. When she married and left home, she left her albums behind. I would listen to them over and over. I loved those songs as a little child and to this day, I get a thrill when I hear them. Thanks Sissy for turning me on to such great music.
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.
I "might" be a dinosaur, but this is surely one of the most moving and beautiful male tenor performances I've ever heard. Tony Williams' performance, sheer perfection for this tune, NEVER gets old.
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.
My mom just passed and while I was in the hospital with her, I asked her, "Mom, what was yours and Dad's wedding song?" She replied, "Son, it was Smoke Gets In Your Eyes!" She smiled and then she was gone. I kept playing this song after so I can remember that moment when she smiled at me for the last time....
Me! I'm listening now, 4/22/24 because my dad loved this song and right now my father is busy dying at home (I think) surrounded my all the family that can travel. I'm in my 60's and cannot travel, but I am listening to his favorite songs, which he sang quite well during long car rides. To Dad and to The Platters: Thanks for the memories! 💕
I'm 72, and I listen to music from the late 1950s, up to 1980s. I have every song from the Temptations, Smoky Robinson and the Miracles,Gladys Knight and the Pips ( my babies).All the cuts from The Platters,The Dells, all of Luther Vandross(Creep Creep Creep). Maze. I've been colleting my music for a long time. And I don't loan them out. NO WAY! ❤❤❤
My gramma passed away last week. This is one of the songs she'd play over and over and over in her house. Listening to it now... gramma, I will love and miss you forever :')
Young music fan here. I'm not pretentious, I adore essentially all forms of music. But I find myself visiting the 50s, The Platters in particular, because there's something so pure and endearing about their sound. It's absolutely lovely. No tension, just sweet release.
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.
The best music there is.I have been listening to the Platters since 1956. Brings back memories of the young man I was dating . In December we will be married 63 years❤
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
To anybody who's reading this, I pray that whatever is hurting you or whatever you are constantly stressing about gets better. May the dark thoughts, the overthinking, and the doubt exit your mind. May clarity replace confusion. May peace and calmness fill your life.
@@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.
@@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.
The greatest singing group of all time - no need for a debate. And what a voice Mr Williams had . . . Simply magic. Been a fan of The Platters for more than 60 years and still loving them in the year 2022. Comments from the beautiful, tranquil Islands of The Bahamas 🏝️🌅🏖️🇧🇸
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!!! ❤
This is definitely amongst one of the most beautiful songs ever written and their voices are Amazing! I feel every emotion behind those notes. It makes my heart sing. ❤❤
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.
Me, listened to them in the 50s, too. This song just popped into my head tonight. We’ve had beautiful snow on ground for a week, but it’s warmed up to 37 at night and now it’s raining and all the snow is gone. But like the love in the song, was beautiful while it lasted. January, 2024. ❤
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.
@@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.
I was a teen when this song came out . I loved it then and I love it now . A lot of music back then was wonderful. The young people would benefit from listening to this music.
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.
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
@@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!!! 🎶💖🎶
Who else is sat self isolating😷 in 2020 listening to this great music from our childhood, all the memories come flooding back, how privileged were we to have this amazing music 🎶 to grow up listening to 👍🏻💖🤘🏼 😷 Stay Safe Everyone 👍🏻
One of the most beautiful songs ever written. My 11, 12 year old foster son Christopher could barely go to sleep at night till I played this for him on the piano in his room. Such beautiful memories. Now I don't even know where my kid is ...
Just got "The Platters - 30 Golden Hits" On 8-Track. This song was on there. I keep playing it over and over now. Amazing song. And The Platters are amazing too!
Having been a musician all my adult life - played and listened to countless songs in so many different genres of music. It is the Platters recording of this song that has stayed with me the longest. It is my personal #1.
As far as a group of singers, The Platters are untouchable, magical and golden. So touched and grateful these particular singers came together. In a league of their own.
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!
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 love The Platters so much! I'll be twenty-six this year and I've been listening to this group for over ten years now. I first heard this song during Thanksgiving and thought it was the most beautiful song I ever heard. I got hooked on their other big hits too like "Only You," "The Great Pretender," "My Prayer," "Twilight Time," and even some of their lesser known works like "September," "Lazy River," "Sixteen Tons," and their version of "Summertime" from "Porgy and Bess!" I wish I could've seen them in person! I love singing their songs so much!
One of my brother's favorite songs!!!! Love you and miss you, brother!!!! RIP and give our parents a hug and a kiss!!!! Can you hear it in heaven, brother???? Love you, miss you!!!
I was born in 1975, and absolutely love the Platters!! What a beautiful ballad, especially at the bridge, "when the piano lick plays," just before Tony Williams sings, "Now Laughing Friends Deride!!" Wow so beautiful and it definitely sends chills!! Today's garbage, which is not music, totally sucks ass!!
Hello There, I am 83 years old and just found these songs by chance, I am enjoying every moment ,Thanks for the opportunity,,,,,,,,thanks for the memories
The music, the lyrics, and the emotional interpretation put forth by Tony Williams (lead singer/the Platters) all bring tears to my eyes. I remember this song from when I was a little girl and I thought it was about a forest fire. Now in 2021 I realize it is about learning the hard fact of life that love is neither guaranteed nor long lasting.
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.
@@richardgamble4147 Richard, I am not religious, but I believe everyone of us is born with a special gift, but few realise that gift and exploit it to it's fullest. I suppose what's sad is to see this talent destroy itself by drugs and alcohol. I saw some of Tony Williams later attempts and it was tragic. It's hard for normal human beings to handle fame and adulation and in most cases, this is what happens. Regardless, I have digitally enhanced recordings of Williams at his peak and yes, he was God-gifted
This is the mark of good music when you love a song that was written before you were born (born in 1970). Shows that s song is truly good and real music.
it’s 8am and i’m playing this because i miss the times when i was still at home waking up to my dad’s playlist. it’s sad to grow, become an adult, and work far from your parents-but a little something like this makes me happy.
I am also, everytime when I had listened this song, my tears could not control from falling for the memorized of my beloved wife! Philip Chan-Hong Kong.😢
I love this song when I was a kid. Growing up in the 80s my late father always playing music from the 50s and 60s. If I have to choose only one song, this is my lifetime song.
Amazing that such a perfect slow-dance song for lovers was actually a bittersweet lament about the illusions we cling to in our desperate desire to love and be loved. Whether the glasses are rose-colored or smoke-obscured doesn't matter when we don't want to see the truth. Some of the best lyrics of all time.
This always takes me back to Benghazi when I was ding National Service. I had a fantastic girlfriend. I was slim and fit without a care in the world. There I was, a 20 year old full corporal in the REME, in 1957.
***** Your dad had a much harder time than me. My time in Benghazi was like a continuous holiday, sun bathing, swimming in the Med with a gorgeous girlfriend. It was no wonder that I was the envy of my camp.
I'm 50, and probably a baby compared to most Platters fans. As a kid my parents played their 8-tracks of the Ink Spots, the Platters and everything Motown. There's nothing better than these golden oldies. I had to laugh just now...right before switching to the Platters, I was playing some Zeppelin and Sabbath. Though othing beats the oldies but goodies! 2:40
I keep listening this right at the end of The Catcher in the Rye, just when Holden says that the music that was being played in the carousel was this one. What a magical ending to a beautiful book, specially for a 17 yr old who relates to him :,)
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This song is just as beautiful today, May 15, 2024 as it was back in the day
May 15 2024 my 25th wedding anniversary and we danced this song at my wedding party 25 years ago …
I am. I'm 67. I had a sister who was 17 years older than me. She had Platters albums. When she married and left home, she left her albums behind. I would listen to them over and over. I loved those songs as a little child and to this day, I get a thrill when I hear them. Thanks Sissy for turning me on to such great music.
Listen to the platters great pretender
This was the song my mum played on her record player when my dad was killed working in a shipyard in Glasgow in 1959, when I was 10.
Memories ❤️
Such a sad memory but a beautiful song to remind you.
27 years old and nothing's better than old big band music
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.
I "might" be a dinosaur, but this is surely one of the most moving and beautiful male tenor performances I've ever heard. Tony Williams' performance, sheer perfection for this tune, NEVER gets old.
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 🤪
Who listen to this in March 2024? Huh? 😢 🌹
Iv a renewed faith for like minded others. 🎩how pleasant 🙏🏾🔥❤️
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!
Born in 1950 raised on this music and still listening now in 2024
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.
77 years the most beautiful voices so wish we had music like this today ❤
They don’t write love songs anywhere close to these songs!
Disgusting 🤢
My mom just passed and while I was in the hospital with her, I asked her, "Mom, what was yours and Dad's wedding song?" She replied, "Son, it was Smoke Gets In Your Eyes!" She smiled and then she was gone. I kept playing this song after so I can remember that moment when she smiled at me for the last time....
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😢
Born in 1984 and still listening to what music used to be
Me! I'm listening now, 4/22/24 because my dad loved this song and right now my father is busy dying at home (I think) surrounded my all the family that can travel. I'm in my 60's and cannot travel, but I am listening to his favorite songs, which he sang quite well during long car rides. To Dad and to The Platters: Thanks for the memories! 💕
❤
How caring that your family supported your father in that final journey. I hope there's a heaven for him to be in.
The Platters sang the most beautiful songs in history. This one in particular gives me the chills. SO Beautiful!
Que bonita cancion .genial
And the Flamingos I only have eyes for you.
Righteous brothers
Totally agree. So melodic.
That voice is not from earth. The 1st time I heard his voice it was like something had just grabbed my soul. Will always love this song
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
I'm 72, and I listen to music from the late 1950s, up to 1980s. I have every song from the Temptations, Smoky Robinson and the Miracles,Gladys Knight and the Pips ( my babies).All the cuts from The Platters,The Dells, all of Luther Vandross(Creep Creep Creep). Maze. I've been colleting my music for a long time. And I don't loan them out. NO WAY! ❤❤❤
My gramma passed away last week. This is one of the songs she'd play over and over and over in her house. Listening to it now... gramma, I will love and miss you forever :')
Don’t lose those memories.
Sorry for your loss. Keep her memory's alive. She will live on forever :)
🙏❤️
Hugs from Puerto Rico
Young music fan here. I'm not pretentious, I adore essentially all forms of music. But I find myself visiting the 50s, The Platters in particular, because there's something so pure and endearing about their sound. It's absolutely lovely. No tension, just sweet release.
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.
My vote for ONE OF THE GREATEST LOVE SONGS OF ALL TIME.
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.
The best music there is.I have been listening to the Platters since 1956. Brings back memories of the young man I was dating .
In December we will be married 63 years❤
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
I'm 23 yrs, but with an old soul, who really enjoy this kind of songs 🎺🎸🎹🎙️🎹
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
Who else is listening to The Platters in 2024?
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
Tony Williams --- I have loved this voice since I was a child. I'm now 72.
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
To anybody who's reading this, I pray that whatever is hurting you or whatever you are constantly stressing about gets better. May the dark thoughts, the overthinking, and the doubt exit your mind. May clarity replace confusion. May peace and calmness fill your life.
Thank you and may your lovely wishes boomerang right back to you, dear.
For my mom ❤ she never stopped playing the Platters… l love you ❤
Wow, someone can actually sound terrific without special effects or auto-tune. Seriously, this is awesome.
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.
The greatest singing group of all time - no need for a debate. And what a voice Mr Williams had . . . Simply magic. Been a fan of The Platters for more than 60 years and still loving them in the year 2022. Comments from the beautiful, tranquil Islands of The Bahamas 🏝️🌅🏖️🇧🇸
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!!! ❤
That voice. For cryin' out loud, that voice. ❤
The Platters define what is high-class music!
This is definitely amongst one of the most beautiful songs ever written and their voices are Amazing! I feel every emotion behind those notes. It makes my heart sing. ❤❤
absolutely.........
I agree with you the best.
It makes me feel sad; I was a child at that time, you understand...
Hurts
@@elainestanton1376blbullum
Romanticism
One of the most beautiful things that nowadays seems to have been lost.
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
Me in Toronto Canada...
I'm 74 year's lady❤❤❤❤
Мне 65 Кубань, Россия.
@@user-ig7xk9hs4vblessings to you, in Cuba. Be strong. Be calm.
Alguien más escuchando a Los Platters en 2024? ❤
that "ooh ooh" is just inhumanly magical
As a musician, I listen to the musical arrangement. It is perfection. The rhythm section, strings, harp, background vocals, timpani.
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
You can never forget good songs and singers whether they are a group or just one. Loved the Platters
Me, listened to them in the 50s, too. This song just popped into my head tonight. We’ve had beautiful snow on ground for a week, but it’s warmed up to 37 at night and now it’s raining and all the snow is gone. But like the love in the song, was beautiful while it lasted. January, 2024. ❤
Tears get in my eyes thinking of the Golden Age of Music.
Real music
Real music sung by truly talented singers. What has happened to us?
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.
I was a teen when this song came out . I loved it then and I love it now .
A lot of music back then was wonderful. The young people would benefit from listening to this music.
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 💕💕💕
OMG……this always brings tears to my eyes. I grew up with this music and it still affects me……such talent. ❤❤❤
One of the very rare songs whose Beauty and Magic take your Breath away. This kind of music is a true Gift from God!!! 🎶💖🎶
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!!!
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Tony Williams: A voice smoother than silk. He's up there with the Greats!
❤ I think that I'm an old soul, love these songs,golden!
2:00 that screech in the note is so beautiful it’s full of emotion
Oh that, that's the oriental one.
The singer has an extra special way of bringing the soul of this song out.
Who else is sat self isolating😷 in 2020 listening to this great music from our childhood, all the memories come flooding back, how privileged were we to have this amazing music 🎶 to grow up listening to 👍🏻💖🤘🏼 😷 Stay Safe Everyone 👍🏻
Happy and sad memories 😐
I was born in 2009 and i always love old songs i feel like i lived before, such good songs will never die
I identify with this song. I have had two failed marriages. I can say, however, that I raised two beautiful daughters! ❤❤❤
What magic, voices like silk, pure talent. Today "music" sounds nothing as great as this
Yes
Yes, it is great!
What a great era of human mankind, jukeboxes, american tailfin-cars, jeans and leather-jackets, electromechanical arcade games and that kind of musik.
Great song
so the hipster era of nerds
You missed the starting gun
Arcade... agree. thanks👍🏿
@Burleon... I said nothing.. lord!!!
One of the most beautiful songs ever written. My 11, 12 year old foster son Christopher could barely go to sleep at night till I played this for him on the piano in his room. Such beautiful memories. Now I don't even know where my kid is ...
I pray you will one day be reunited
The Platters most unique voices. Their masterpiece is undying and lives through all etermity
I met the Platters when i was 8 years old and it's one of my fondest memories. I just turned 55.
I love this song.. September 2020? Anyone?
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
Just got "The Platters - 30 Golden Hits" On 8-Track. This song was on there. I keep playing it over and over now. Amazing song. And The Platters are amazing too!
Having been a musician all my adult life - played and listened to countless songs in so many different genres of music. It is the Platters recording of this song that has stayed with me the longest. It is my personal #1.
The Platters! My parents had all their "albums." What a talented group!
Y8
Man, when he sings his high vibratos, it sends the chills down my spine.
This song never gets old. But i do
Ah but good music keeps my mood feeling young so my age (68) doesn't matter.
As far as a group of singers, The Platters are untouchable, magical and golden. So touched and grateful these particular singers came together. In a league of their own.
truly one of the best singers in the world. love the Platters!!
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
No autotune, this is real music.
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.
One of the best sad love songs ever written. The quality of this type of music should be appreciated.
The Platters were sensational singers of the past with great romantic music that were enjoyed by young and old alike. Such great music never dies!
I love The Platters so much! I'll be twenty-six this year and I've been listening to this group for over ten years now. I first heard this song during Thanksgiving and thought it was the most beautiful song I ever heard. I got hooked on their other big hits too like "Only You," "The Great Pretender," "My Prayer," "Twilight Time," and even some of their lesser known works like "September," "Lazy River," "Sixteen Tons," and their version of "Summertime" from "Porgy and Bess!" I wish I could've seen them in person! I love singing their songs so much!
You might like "Harbor Lights" too.
One of my brother's favorite songs!!!! Love you and miss you, brother!!!! RIP and give our parents a hug and a kiss!!!! Can you hear it in heaven, brother???? Love you, miss you!!!
How the hell did black people go from great music like this to rap music unbelievable 😢
Because this was all written and arranged by Jews. Now hip hop makes the jew money
I was born in 1975, and absolutely love the Platters!! What a beautiful ballad, especially at the bridge, "when the piano lick plays," just before Tony Williams sings, "Now Laughing Friends Deride!!" Wow so beautiful and it definitely sends chills!!
Today's garbage, which is not music, totally sucks ass!!
I am the one who is listening to the Platters I'm 76 now.
The movie "45 Years" brought me here. What a fantastic movie amazing song
I saw the trailer of the movie, thus coming hear to hear this amazing song.
Hello There, I am 83 years old and just found these songs by chance, I am enjoying every moment ,Thanks for the opportunity,,,,,,,,thanks for the memories
I'm only 45 but I love this song! I learned this by listening to the radio a lot starting when I was 6 in 1985!
We are the same age. September 1978. Do you listen to 106.7 ? That's where I know all these beautiful songs.
The music, the lyrics, and the emotional interpretation put forth by Tony Williams (lead singer/the Platters) all bring tears to my eyes. I remember this song from when I was a little girl and I thought it was about a forest fire. Now in 2021 I realize it is about learning the hard fact of life that love is neither guaranteed nor long lasting.
Thinking of you mom ...you showed me what good music was
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.
I am! Because even at 82 years old, I am a romantic as are countless others who are listening to Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.
Amazing voice of tony williams..im74 still listening for this lovely song R.I.P. tony...
Tony Williams was The Platters and had a God-given voice.
Why did God Almighty gave him alone a voice of pure diamonds?
@@richardgamble4147 Richard, I am not religious, but I believe everyone of us is born with a special gift, but few realise that gift and exploit it to it's fullest. I suppose what's sad is to see this talent destroy itself by drugs and alcohol. I saw some of Tony Williams later attempts and it was tragic. It's hard for normal human beings to handle fame and adulation and in most cases, this is what happens. Regardless, I have digitally enhanced recordings of Williams at his peak and yes, he was God-gifted
@@sdi1111 Thank you for your wonderful words, I never knew anything about Mr.Williams but I am happy to learn some thing from you about him
This is the mark of good music when you love a song that was written before you were born (born in 1970). Shows that s song is truly good and real music.
One of my favorite groups since a child, grew up listening to these fabulous artists who have also been my Mom’s favorites❤️gorgeous voices❤️
I could not fathom a face without tears upon listening to this song. ❤️🌹🎼
it’s 8am and i’m playing this because i miss the times when i was still at home waking up to my dad’s playlist. it’s sad to grow, become an adult, and work far from your parents-but a little something like this makes me happy.
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SONG, WHAT A MAGIC VELVET VOICE. THE BEST OF BEST. ETERNELLY GIFT
THE eternal music of human civilization from last century.
One Vietnamese lived with Platters music in 1960.
I am also, everytime when I had listened this song, my tears could not control from falling for the memorized of my beloved wife!
Philip Chan-Hong Kong.😢
I love this song when I was a kid. Growing up in the 80s my late father always playing music from the 50s and 60s. If I have to choose only one song, this is my lifetime song.
No way to go back but we can live longer
Amazing that such a perfect slow-dance song for lovers was actually a bittersweet lament about the illusions we cling to in our desperate desire to love and be loved. Whether the glasses are rose-colored or smoke-obscured doesn't matter when we don't want to see the truth. Some of the best lyrics of all time.
È così!...👍❤😔😪
the Robert sez: I’m eighty and The Platters are as vibrant as ever!
The Platters. São mais de 50 anos ouvindo e sempre me faz bem!
Um dos maiores grupos românticos de todos os tempos...
...you kids and your music...
This always takes me back to Benghazi when I was ding National Service. I had a fantastic girlfriend. I was slim and fit without a care in the world. There I was, a 20 year old full corporal in the REME, in 1957.
***** Your dad had a much harder time than me. My time in Benghazi was like a continuous holiday, sun bathing, swimming in the Med with a gorgeous girlfriend. It was no wonder that I was the envy of my camp.
fred turton did you know my dad Bill Gregory 😎
My late mother favorite song. Makes me cry every time I played this song whenever I visit her grave every weekend . Beautiful song!!!
Has to be one of the greatest songs of the 50's. Watch Night of the Creeps!
I'm 50, and probably a baby compared to most Platters fans. As a kid my parents played their 8-tracks of the Ink Spots, the Platters and everything Motown. There's nothing better than these golden oldies. I had to laugh just now...right before switching to the Platters, I was playing some Zeppelin and Sabbath. Though othing beats the oldies but goodies! 2:40
One of the best groups ever, still listening!
Greatest singers EVER. grew up with these guys now 75.
I keep listening this right at the end of The Catcher in the Rye, just when Holden says that the music that was being played in the carousel was this one. What a magical ending to a beautiful book, specially for a 17 yr old who relates to him :,)
I grew up listening to the Platters , they was one of best groups & still are.
This music is timeless!!! I'm in my 30's but for me the music of Platters is absolutely great. ☺☺ thanks for this masterpiece
My mother's favourite band, she passed away this year. Love you mom. I can always feel you deeper in my heart and soul while listening to The Platters
This was the middle song at my dad's funeral. Such a beautiful song sung so beautifully.
Fr Jamaica Used to dance to all these songs at our Sat 3 hr break Girls boarding school. Nostagia and that was the life