All-Time Greatest Hits (2004)

About this title: While this single-disc distillation of the Platters' biggest hits is superb, it's almost identical to Rhino's 1998 comp Enchanted: The Best of the Platters, except that the Rhino disc actually has everything here plus three additional tracks. None of those three extra songs are among the group's more familiar numbers, though, so in all honesty All-Time Greatest Hits will be just as sufficient for most fans. It has all 15 of their first Top Forty hits, an astonishing run that went from 1955's "Only You (And You Alone)" through 1960's "Harbor Lights," and adds the more modern soul-pop successes ... read more

Tracks:

1. Only You (And You Alone) [Ram/Rand]
2. The Great Pretender [Ram]
3. (You've Got) The Magic Touch [Ram]
4. My Prayer [Boulanger/Kennedy]
5. Heaven on Earth [Ram]
6. You'll Never, Never Know [Robi/Williams/Miles]
7. It Isn't Right [Mellin]
8. On My Word of Honor [Harrison/Miles]
9. One in a Million [Miles/Williams]
10. I'm Sorry [Ram/Tinturin/White]
11. He's Mine [Ram/Robi/Taylor]
12. My Dream [Ram]
13. Twilight Time [Dunn/Nevins/Ram]
14. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes [Harbach/Kern]
15. Enchanted [Ram]
16. Harbor Lights [Kennedy/Wiliams]
17. I Love You 1,000 Times [Dixon/Foxx]
18. With This Ring [Dixon/Wylie/Hester]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.