The Platters: "Twilight Time" (1958) [Enhanced Wide-Stereo Separation] [4K] скачать в хорошем качестве

The Platters: "Twilight Time" (1958) [Enhanced Wide-Stereo Separation] [4K]

The Platters: "Twilight Time" (1958) Original Composition: The song was written in 1944 with music by The Three Suns (Morty Nevins, Al Nevins, and Artie Dunn) and lyrics added later by Buck Ram (also known as Ande Rand), who was the manager and key songwriter for The Platters. The Platters' Version (1958): This is the most famous and successful recording. Released as a single in May 1958, it became a massive hit Here's something funny but 100% factual about The Platters' "Twilight Time":The song was originally an instrumental hit in 1944 by The Three Suns (peaking at #8), with no lyrics at all—just vibes and twilight mood music. Buck Ram (The Platters' manager and main songwriter) had written the poem/lyrics years earlier while in college, but it sat unused until he slapped those romantic words onto the existing tune for The Platters' 1958 recording. So, picture this: A wartime instrumental about... instrumental sunset feelings gets turned into one of the smoothest, most swoony #1 pop/R&B crossover hits ever—The Platters' third Billboard Hot 100 #1—because someone finally decided, "Hey, let's add poetry about heavenly shades of night falling and voices calling out of the mist." It went from background elevator music to eternal make-out soundtrack. Bonus irony: Horror master Stephen King even nodded to it by naming a short story "Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling" (the song's opening line), turning a super-romantic ballad into subtle creepy inspiration. Talk about a glow-up from wordless wartime tune to terror reference! The Platters nailed it so perfectly that their version revived the song into massive fame, and it still pops up today (like in the WandaVision trailer). Classic case of "old song + new lyrics = timeless magic... with a side of absurdity."