194 The Platters “Only You (and You Alone)” 1955

In the film Rock Around the Clock, the Comets starred alongside the Platters, a mixed-gender vocal group as silken as the Comets and Little Richard were brash. The Platters’ 1955 hit, “Only You (And You Alone),” was the first in a series of twenty top-forty hits they scored over the course of six years, almost all of which were ballads” (Albin Zak, I Don’t Sound Like Nobody, 2010). 

The Platters “Only You (and You Alone)”