Herb Reed (pictured), the founding and very last surviving original member of the hottest pop vocal group of the 1950′s The Platters, died Sunday at age 83, after a period of declining health, reports the Boston Business Journal.
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Reed, who was a Kansas City, Missouri, native and born in to abject poverty, lost his parents when he was in his tweens. In his teens, he bounced from home to home and managed to secure odd jobs, which was the beginning of how he learned how to save his money. READ MORE.
