Buck Ram

Buck Ram wrote, produced and arranged music for The Platters, the group he is most closely associated with, as well as for the Penguins, the Coasters, the Drifters, Ike and Tina Turner, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller and Ella Fitzgerald. BMI ranked him among its top five songwriters by air play across its first 50 years, alongside Paul Simon and Paul McCartney.