Sing along to the powerful lyrics of The Great Pretender, where smiles hide heartache in one of the most honest songs ever written.

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I’m lonely but no one can tell. — The Platters, “The Great Pretender,” November, 1955 It was a monumental bluff, as huge as Mount Rushmore, seemingly impervious to destruction, where he ...

“The Great Pretender,” a top #1 pop hit for the vocal group The Platters in 1956, is certainly one of those songs. Buck Ram, who also managed The Platters, wrote the song.

In the '70s David Rosenhan and seven "pseudopatients" went undercover in mental health wards. Their resulting article rocked the psychiatric world. But Susannah Cahalan struggled to confirm the facts.