The Platters® will release "The Prayer" on May 29, 2026, as the opening track of With Love, The Platters, their first major ...

When bands split up and reform with new members, custody of the band name often becomes sticky. Here's one example. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large In their heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, ...

Take a spin back in time with this Friday night’s show at the Palace Theatre in Greensburg. The Drifters, Cornell Gunter’s Coasters and The Platters will perform for a night full of classic tunes and ...

Derek David holds the note, a little flat, but impossibly long and amplified a little too loudly, so it beats out over the audience like a rubber jackhammer. When he pauses for breath and the next ...

At 89, Las Vegas entertainment figure Jean Bennett should be comfortably retired and satisfied with her life’s work promoting and managing the 1950s super group the Platters. She’s not. While Bennett ...

The Junior-Senior Promenade – more fondly called JS Prom – is one of the occasions every high school student looks forward to when February comes. It’s the night when love song classics like “My ...

Led by singer Tony Williams, the Platters were one of the mid- to late-1950s' top vocal groups. In 1955, as rough-edge rock 'n' roll was taking center stage, the Platters' ultra-smooth renditions of ...