The Platters – The Great Pretender

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“The Great Pretender”
The Great Pretender Single 1955.jpg
Single by The Platters
B-side “I’m Just a Dancing Partner”
Released November 3, 1955
Format 45 rpm78 rpm
Recorded 1955
Genre Rhythm and bluesdoo-wop
Length 2:36
Label Mercury
Songwriter(s) Buck Ram
Producer(s) Buck Ram

The Great Pretender” is a popular song recorded by The Platters, with Tony Williams on lead vocals, and released as a single on November 3, 1955. The words and music were written by Buck Ram, the Platters’ manager and producer who was a successful songwriter before moving into producing and management. “The Great Pretender” reached the number one position on both the R&B and pop charts in 1956. It also reached the UK charts peaking at number 5.

Platters’ version

Buck Ram reports that he wrote the song in about 20 minutes in the washroom of the Flamingo Hotel in order to have a song to follow up the success of “Only You (And You Alone)“. Stan Freberg parodied this version.

In 2004, the song was voted 360th greatest song of all time by Rolling StonePlas Johnson played tenor saxophone.

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