Johnny Barnes Platters
The platters and the ink spots were the groups that johnny barnes now 78 years old shared his amazing voice and song writing talents with.
Johnny barnes platters. John james randolf adolphus mills june 23 1923 july 9 2016 known as johnny barnes was a bermudian native found waving to passing traffic at the foot of the lane roundabout in hamilton bermuda from roughly 3 45 am to 10 am every workday rain or shine. We are honored at binary recording studio to have such a great musican. The court battles lasted from 1994 2014 when the rights to the name were granted to herb reed.
The platters are an american vocal group formed in 1952. Robi and lynch were known as the original platters with williams clone johnny barnes as their lead singer. We are honored to have him recording at our studio.
Johnny barnes was the lead singer for the platters as well as the inkspots and he is still entertaining today. Their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre rock tin pan alley tradition and the burgeoning new genre. It s been more than 20 years since johnny barnes left his gig singing with the legendary ink spots a.
Former ink spots and platters singer johnny barnes will perform at 7 p m. Here is a youtube link of smoke. Johnny barnes lead gary garrett bass beverly harris bob white baritone and paul robi second tenor chico lamar lead singer also with the platters and chico lamar s group ritchie jones lead singer also with buck ram s platters and ritchie jones group lynne brown female vocals larry tate bass singer elmer armstrong 2nd tenor john hopkins 2nd tenor nat pulizzi.
Johnny barnes was the lead singer for the platters as well as the inkspots and he is still entertaining today. The platters and the ink spots were the two groups that johnny barnes shared his amazing voice and writing talents with. The platters were one of the most successful vocal groups of the early rock and roll era.
At the age of 78 years johnny is still singing and recording new songs. He was known for waving and. Originally their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre rock tin pan alley tradition and the burgeoning new genre.
The group had 40. The act has gone through several personnel changes with one of the most successful incarnations comprising lead tenor tony williams. The album the platters was released in 1956.
