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The Platters reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart with "My Prayer" for a 2-week run.
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- The Platters scored their second U.S. No. 1 pop hit with "My Prayer," staying at the top for 5 weeks. The song was originally based on the 1926 French composition "Avant de Mourir."
- The Platters' “My Prayer” was at No. 1 on the US R&B chart.
- Four male members of The Platters were arrested in Cincinnati and charged with aiding prostitution, obscenity and immoral conduct after police found them at the Sheraton Gibson hotel at a post-concert party with four nineteen-year-old women, three of whom were white. The charges were dismissed in December, but the arrests damaged the group's career in the meantime and led to their recordings being dropped from some major radio markets.
- The group's last surviving original member, Herb Reed, obtained an injunction against a group using the name The Platters that had none of the original members.