Platters Had a Great Hit With 'Pretender'

Reporter-Herald ^ | 01/02/2018 | Jim Willard

[Family Guy]

Can't forget Stan Freberg's classic version. The Great Pretender

[Oshkalaboomboom]

NO, people who call themselves Platters tour constantly, but all the real Platters are dead.

I've seen several of these bands and they either have a relative of an original member or had an original member in it who passed on the rights to the name and the style. If they didn't they would have to call themselves a Platters tribute band, or Salute to the Platters.

[smalltownslick]

All of which means, of course, that they have the legal right to call themselves the Platters, but they still aren’t.