Makes me think bavk to 54 to 58 when my steady girlfriend and I used to do the "elevator" dance (No Steps :-) )to the Platters. Of course I'd have to wait a minute or two before we seperated. ;-)
Is that why he sounds so good. I don't know much about music, but this sounds perfect to me. I cannot imagine how it could sound better. The Platters are timeless and they were the greatest ever.
I'm 50 now & I will ALWAYS LOVE the PLATTERS!!!! That's one of the things that helped me to meet my 2nd husband 3years after my 1st husband passed. Just when u think there is NO hope, something good can happen. God bless!!!!
The greatest popular music male voice of all time. Love this and the memory of the golden voice that was. Tony died of emphysema - still singing on stage to the very end - but lacking the lung power and big notes of his early years. RIP Tony - you were the best.
Love this song. My dad would make Sunday breakfast and blast oldies. I grow up listening to them, and now I am finding a new appreciation for them. What great music.
Listen to that song!!!. No microphones!!!!. What a voice Tony had. He gives me goose bumps. I LOVE THISE HIGH NOTES!!!!. Only he can sing them. What a group. The VERY VERY BEST OF ALL . WISH THEY WERE STILL ALL HERE. MANY GOOD MEMORIES. THESE SONGS WILL NEVER DIE IN MY EYES. RIP ALL. GOD BLESS AND LOVE U ALL. .😇😇😇😥😥😥😥😥🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏💋
Tony Williams should get more recognition as one of the best voices of the day. Johnny Maestro & Jay Black get all the credit they deserve but hardly anyone can tell you the name of the awesome voice leading the Platters.
I am one of the people who COULD tell anyone the name of the lead singer of the Platters .... but.... when I am so enthralled by a singing group or a lead singer..... I have ALWAYS made sure that I found out their name!!! I certainly feel as though they deserve it.
I'm so glad my late mother, born 1941, and graduated the same year this awesome tune was released, introduced my siblings and I to this great, timeless music. I believe I'm an old soul anyway lol, because I'm always listening to this and music before my time. This is so beautiful. Who cannot like this! 😍😍💕💕
The interpretation of the lyric makes me cry and lifts my spirits. What a shame he was so underrated by all the other crooners like Matt monroe, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Maffis and Sammy Davis Junior!!! Williams delivery is theatrical, well paced, and vowels and consonants are elongated on certain words to emphasise an emotion. He really paints with the larger intervals to show emotional changes and colour, very similar to Nat Cole in style and vowel resonance.
What an ironic paradox of a song. All who love are blind ...when your heart's on fire, u must realize smokes gets in your eyes.....when a lovely flame dies , smoke gets in your eyes . Very paradoxical that one is always in a state of blindness no matter what side of the coin it is.
Yes..... this type of music.... and the era that it belonged to.... does not exist anymore. However.... I will NEVER forget this music as long as I am living!
My sister who passed away last year loved to hear my mother talk this group when we were kids back in the 70s. When ever I hear this song, I think about my big sister. Love you big sis.
My grandfather and my grandmother were married in 1959 (I think it was in October) unfortunately my grandfather died in 1984, leaving only my grandmother.
This was such a great hit and all the Platters songs were great. All of us teens were mesmerized by their singing when the DJ played their songs. The little guy with the mustache is Herb Reed the originator of the group, he died in 2012 at 83.
I believe the song first showed up in the 1933 Broadway Play ROBERTA, by composer Jerome Kern & Lyricist Otto Harbach, and sung in the play by Tamara Dasin; in the 1935 movie reprise of ROBERTA, the song was sung by Irene Dunne.
Tony Williams was a beautiful man with a wonderful voice, and his eyes was really like fire, but many of these coloured singers and actors are very beautiful, because their eyes almost do the talking/singing......We will never get something like the Platters again.....thank you for the music.....
ive got this in my collection along with punk , ska , reggae , rock and roll etc . i played this to 2 6 foot 5 skinheads once and they never said a word while it was playing they said afterwards damn that is some voice .
Love, Love, LOVE The Platters! For my 25th birthday (1974) my folks had the local oldies station play this for me,THAT'S how much i love this song. if I could sing like that , I wouldn't even freaking TALK to people!
They asked me how I knew My true love was true Oh-oh-oh-oh, I, of course, replied "Something here inside Cannot be denied" (Ooh, ooh, ooh) They said, "Someday you'll find All who love are blind" Oh-oh-oh-oh When your heart's on fire You must realize Smoke gets in your eyes So, I chaffed them As I gaily laughed To think they would doubt our love Yet today, my love has gone away I am without my love (without my love) Now, laughing friends deride Tears, I cannot hide Oh-oh-oh-oh So, I smile and say "When a lovely flame dies Smoke gets in your eyes" Smoke gets in your eyes Smoke gets in your eyes Smoke gets in your eyes
The most beautiful song. Voice, melody, harmony, musical arrangements and superb backing vocals. One of the prettiest songs of all time in my opinion 👌
This song was released when I became a teenager, and it brings to me so many remembrances of that year, I ceased to be a kid, but vould not behave or act like an adult yet. It took me four years to develop. A nice song really and very sentimental, Tony Williams was such a Great singer really.
There so many underappreciated singers (and musical groups) in the world and maybe Tony Williams -and The Platters - is one of them all. Such amazing silky, smooth voice was a real gift and we, still living ones, have the opportunity to enjoy and admire Tony and his group; In my mind, though, they will remind forever been one of my favorites - Tony and The Platters !!!
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Tony Williams....one of the greatest voices of all time. RIP
Full agreement, Mr. Williams also knew how to use those skills, delivering touch medium and power as needed.
Quantas recordações hoje 69 anos tem agradecimentos e saudades desse grupo que inspirava nossos sonhos
That guy was the best there ever was.
Name two more
Yes I agree a beautiful voice
One of the most beautiful songs ever performed
Agree. Just beautiful.
Можно слушать бесконечно!
Music of the film Roberta with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers...
There Will Never Be Music Like This Again Folks!
De allerbeste groep van de jaren 50
In 1958 i sat in front of a juke box in the Army in Germany and listened to this beautiful song and i was 18 years old and now i'm 81.
São eternas
@teesixx i hope smoke in your eyes dancingbto this song with your one and oly true love🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹💖💖😍😍👋🇮🇪
BEAUTIFUL SONG OF TONY WILLIAMS
AT 83 I AM ENTHRALLED AGAIN BY ONE OF THE GREAT SOUNDS OF MY TEEN YEARS!!!!
Makes me think bavk to 54 to 58 when my steady girlfriend and I used to do the "elevator" dance (No Steps :-) )to the Platters. Of course I'd have to wait a minute or two before we seperated. ;-)
@@BLyons41 BERNIE, Your reply was "edited" ...only you know why. HMMM...Elevator dancing..Be Well
I am 72 and feel the same as you do
that as a very good voice ;
Oh wow
Tony Williams.. Superb voice, every note is perfect
*Tony* True, his voice is capable of delivering high notes without the slightest effort and in perfect pitch.
Is that why he sounds so good. I don't know much about music, but this sounds perfect to me. I cannot imagine how it could sound better. The Platters are timeless and they were the greatest ever.
I can't believe this video doesn't have more views. This guy had an voice! 👏
I'm 50 now & I will ALWAYS LOVE the PLATTERS!!!! That's one of the things that helped me to meet my 2nd husband 3years after my 1st husband passed. Just when u think there is NO hope, something good can happen. God bless!!!!
Knowing this song and film is here 60 years later, no one can deny it is a TRUE MUSIC CLASSIC .... Remarkable !
Such a magnificent singer. Everything was so effortless.
My mom - LOVED - The Platters! This one is for you, Mom. 🙏❤️
The greatest male vocalist ever.
The greatest popular music male voice of all time. Love this and the memory of the golden voice that was. Tony died of emphysema - still singing on stage to the very end - but lacking the lung power and big notes of his early years. RIP Tony - you were the best.
I still do. It's my dad and mom’s love song. I still remember how my dad treated my mom with love and respect. I missed them both and those times.
I’m 31 and in my opinion this is a masterpiece
Me, too! I am 70 years old.... and I can remember when it first came out. I think that it is DEFINITELY a masterpiece!
@@debraweaver6308 Me too!!! and I am 72 yaers old and living in Praque/cz
I really really live this song by tony now im 74 years of age still listening wlth thier song rest in peace tony.
I adore this song . A song my father used To listen and sing when i was a child . Such a beautiful voice !!
I was only 13 years old when I first heard this song 🎵. I wish we could go back to the 50's. This was a great era for me.
It was a great era for our nation, considering one of the main subjects in America today is gender confusion......
@@drizzt8965 YEAH!
I meant..... The 50's! Of course
@@debraweaver6308 Lol.
@@drizzt8965 the 50’s was far from great ☠️
Tony Williams is a great soloist.
Tony Williams one of the greatest voices of all time,RIP,you are miss.
What a voice
Love this song. My dad would make Sunday breakfast and blast oldies. I grow up listening to them, and now I am finding a new appreciation for them. What great music.
Good memories! Same here...I hear a song, and suddenly I'm back in the kitchen, waiting for pancakes!
I was 8 years old, now I am 70. Beautiful song 🎵
Listen to that song!!!. No microphones!!!!. What a voice Tony had. He gives me goose bumps. I LOVE THISE HIGH NOTES!!!!. Only he can sing them. What a group. The VERY VERY BEST OF ALL . WISH THEY WERE STILL ALL HERE. MANY GOOD MEMORIES. THESE SONGS WILL NEVER DIE IN MY EYES. RIP ALL. GOD BLESS AND LOVE U ALL. .😇😇😇😥😥😥😥😥🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏💋
He had such a beautiful voice liquid gold
So nice, so wonderfull.
The Great voice of Tony Williams Brilliant.
In my humble opinion the greatest hit of the 1950s. It’s a perfect song
Agree
Absolutely!
This tune was already a standard sung by many great singers, male and female but I think this version is unforgettable.
@@clovisra Yes! I have never heard this song sung by any other artists... but ... I DO NOT think that I would like ANY other version than this one
Back when there was amazing music
Beautiful ❤️ incredible voice, gone too soon. Rest with the Angels Tony 🤗
The most beautiful voice ever in the history of world music "Samuel Edward Tony Williams"
I was born in 90's but i love this kind of classic songs. 🙂
Real music with meaningful words, a time that long has passed!
Tony Williams should get more recognition as one of the best voices of the day. Johnny Maestro & Jay Black get all the credit they deserve but hardly anyone can tell you the name of the awesome voice leading the Platters.
I am one of the people who COULD tell anyone the name of the lead singer of the Platters .... but.... when I am so enthralled by a singing group or a lead singer..... I have ALWAYS made sure that I found out their name!!! I certainly feel as though they deserve it.
And..... Tony Williams CERTAINLY DOES DESERVE IT!
One of the best ever
Now is 2020 anyone still listen for this song
of course. I think this is one of the best songs of all time
Me!
I graduated from High School in 1958 and joined the RMY two months later. These were my favorite songs then and now.
Army
Yessir
I'm so glad my late mother, born 1941, and graduated the same year this awesome tune was released, introduced my siblings and I to this great, timeless music. I believe I'm an old soul anyway lol, because I'm always listening to this and music before my time. This is so beautiful. Who cannot like this! 😍😍💕💕
One of my favorite songs of all time!
they are incredible beautiful voices u can just dream away🙂
Great song, great voice
Still holds up well after all these years. An excellent example of the music matching the lyrics.
The interpretation of the lyric makes me cry and lifts my spirits. What a shame he was so underrated by all the other crooners like Matt monroe, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Maffis and Sammy Davis Junior!!! Williams delivery is theatrical, well paced, and vowels and consonants are elongated on certain words to emphasise an emotion. He really paints with the larger intervals to show emotional changes and colour, very similar to Nat Cole in style and vowel resonance.
What an ironic paradox of a song. All who love are blind ...when your heart's on fire, u must realize smokes gets in your eyes.....when a lovely flame dies , smoke gets in your eyes . Very paradoxical that one is always in a state of blindness no matter what side of the coin it is.
This performance always gives me goosebumps, I miss operetta music so much 😭
Beautiful voice 😍
My father graduated high school in 1959 and then joined the Army. These songs perk him up when played. This music does not exist anymore
Mad Max Man 1959 that’s a long time ago way before my time I wasn’t born until 2001 lol but I like old music like this
Yes..... this type of music.... and the era that it belonged to.... does not exist anymore. However.... I will NEVER forget this music as long as I am living!
I love old music like this also and I wasn't born until 2005.
I was born in 1980, but what the hell ! I like those old music from the very very past !.
You are a young sole with excellent taste
Same here, born 1985. I love them!
@@hien-phanmach873 This is what I called music !.
Me too!
Born in 88 and I'm in love with them ❤️
Oh yes this is the one, he is so smooth and sings the words with so much meaning!!!
This is a perfect recording as far as mood performance and arrangement. Tony Williams is one of the singers in pop history
This ain’t a ordinary song...hearing this, is like being in heaven I guess
And now he's singing in Heaven.
@Chami Bros Network yesssss unfortunately I’m jealous of the angels
That’s a wonderful sentiment!
My sister who passed away last year loved to hear my mother talk this group when we were kids back in the 70s. When ever I hear this song, I think about my big sister. Love you big sis.
I love this band.
My Mom and Dad were married in January of 1959. That song was #1 back then. 👌🏻
I was married in 1962 and it was here
My grandfather and my grandmother were married in 1959 (I think it was in October) unfortunately my grandfather died in 1984, leaving only my grandmother.
I was seven years old, then... in January of 1959. AND I sure do remember this song!!! It remains as one of my ALL-TIME favorites!
THE PLATTERS💖👸👬🧑🤝🧑🌟🤩
Great!🎼🎵🎤📀🎧🎥💯👍👏
From Hong Kong🙋♀️🌏💝🌺🥰
His voice is really melodious
So beautiful. A simple basic love song without all the gimmickry of today's so-called music. Love the candle and the cufflinks !
Such a voice! Lovely
What's beautiful voice!
One of the best songs of all time. It makes me feel like making a movie revolving around the lyrics of this song.
Very sweet and mellow. A+
This was such a great hit and all the Platters songs were great. All of us teens were mesmerized by their singing when the DJ played their songs. The little guy with the mustache is Herb Reed the originator of the group, he died in 2012 at 83.
Wonderful music
No, not one of the greatest voices of all time. THE GREATEST VOICE OF ALL TIME. No one can hold a note so clearly and with volume like Tony could.
A gem for the ages 🥰
2021 and still listening to this masterpiece.
Layne would've loved them too
2022, still here lol
I believe the song first showed up in the 1933 Broadway Play ROBERTA, by composer Jerome Kern & Lyricist Otto Harbach, and sung in the play by Tamara Dasin; in the 1935 movie reprise of ROBERTA, the song was sung by Irene Dunne.
Beautiful music .....Beautiful people ❤❤❤❤
Loved this song the moment I first heard it at age 7 in 1973. Still one of my all time faves.
Tony Williams was a beautiful man with a wonderful voice, and his eyes was really like fire, but many of these coloured singers and actors are very beautiful, because their eyes almost do the talking/singing......We will never get something like the Platters again.....thank you for the music.....
2021 MARCH, THIS IS SIMPY AMAZING AND ONE OF THE MORE BEAUTIFULL VOICE AND SONG
Beautiful voice, up with the best, an no denying 😎
Love this one👏👏👏
I have tears in my eyes.....too many years have passed.
He looks so you, they all look so young. Such great talent !
ive got this in my collection along with punk , ska , reggae , rock and roll etc . i played this to 2 6 foot 5 skinheads once and they never said a word while it was playing they said afterwards damn that is some voice .
Love, Love, LOVE The Platters! For my 25th birthday (1974) my folks had the local oldies station play this for me,THAT'S how much i love this song. if I could sing like that , I wouldn't even freaking TALK to people!
Haaaaaaaa haaaaaaaa HAAAAAAAA!!! You mean like Tony Williams???! Good idea! This song was always one of my very favorite songs
My favorite group, can't be beat.
Probably the most beautiful song ever.
A Classic thank you Platters
Love the Platters
You don’t get no better than this
Wow what a MAJESTIC singer the GREAT TONY WILLIAMS absolute legend 🎼🎹🎼🎹🎼🎹🎼🎹🎼🎹
They asked me how I knew
My true love was true
Oh-oh-oh-oh, I, of course, replied
"Something here inside
Cannot be denied" (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
They said, "Someday you'll find
All who love are blind"
Oh-oh-oh-oh
When your heart's on fire
You must realize
Smoke gets in your eyes
So, I chaffed them
As I gaily laughed
To think they would doubt our love
Yet today, my love has gone away
I am without my love (without my love)
Now, laughing friends deride
Tears, I cannot hide
Oh-oh-oh-oh
So, I smile and say
"When a lovely flame dies
Smoke gets in your eyes"
Smoke gets in your eyes
Smoke gets in your eyes
Smoke gets in your eyes
Tony Williams has a truly angelic voice!
Ouço e repito, ouço e repito! Cisa linda, matavilhosaaaaaa!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹😊
The most beautiful song. Voice, melody, harmony, musical arrangements and superb backing vocals. One of the prettiest songs of all time in my opinion 👌
The ever legendary platters and their timeless songs
Tony's voice is so smooth, like velvet
What a great group, Love all the Platters Songs.
BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very Romantic and one of those beautiful songs they sang, that were so good that over sixty years later, they are still worth to listen and enjoy.
So impressive.
Brings back days of my childhood, love the oldies!!!
What a great voice Tony had! He made me love this group!
the platters are brilliant Tony Williams voice is perfection
This song was released when I became a teenager, and it brings to me so many remembrances of that year, I ceased to be a kid, but vould not behave or act like an adult yet. It took me four years to develop. A nice song really and very sentimental, Tony Williams was such a Great singer really.
There so many underappreciated singers (and musical groups) in the world and maybe Tony Williams -and The Platters - is one of them all. Such amazing silky, smooth voice was a real gift and we, still living ones, have the opportunity to enjoy and admire Tony and his group; In my mind, though, they will remind forever been one of my favorites - Tony and The Platters !!!
Que hermosa canción,pucha que faltan grupos y cantantes solistas así hoy en día👏
The Platters, on cassette. It was fire to a young person like me!
What a quite well pronuntiation and vocalization, of Tony Williams, the first voice of The Platters. Everything you can understand.