As per our current Database, Herb Reed has been died on 4 June, 2012 at Danvers, Massachusetts, USA.
When Herb Reed die, Herb Reed was 84 years old.
| Popular As | Herb Reed |
| Occupation | Soundtrack |
| Age | 84 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | August 7, 1928 (Kansas City, Missouri, USA) |
| Birthday | August 7 |
| Town/City | Kansas City, Missouri, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
Herb Reed’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Herb Reed was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
Singer and Kansas City (MO) native Herb Reed founded The Platters in Los Angeles in 1953. Then a quartet, the group won amateur talent shows and performed nights and weekends up and down the California coast while the members worked days at a car wash and at other odd jobs.
Reed came up with the group's name, inspired by disc jockeys who called their records "platters". The group signed their first major recording contract in 1955. Reed sang bass on the group's four #1 hits, "The Great Pretender," "My Prayer," "Twilight Time" and "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes".
The Platters were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998. Their recordings are in the Grammy Hall of Fame.Reed credited his survival in the music industry to the poverty he experienced as a child in Kansas City.
While other members of the group spent frivolously, he used his first big royalty check to buy a house. Reed also waged long legal battles with other artists who performed and recorded under the name The Platters.
He finally won a court decision in Nevada that gave him rights to the name. Reed had homes in Atlanta and Miami but had called the Boston area home since the 1970s. He was the only member of the group to appear on all of their nearly 400 recordings.
He continued touring, performing up to 200 shows per year, often performing with younger singers under the name Herb Reed and The Platters or Herb Reed's Platters.
