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If you came of age with the 1986 coming-of-age classic Stand by Me, chances are you long thought twice before taking a dip in any forest ponds.. In perhaps the film’s most famous scene, dead ...
"Stand by Me" is a song originally performed in 1961 by American singer-songwriter Ben E. King and written by him, along with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who together used the pseudonym Elmo Glick. According to King, the title is derived from, and was inspired by, a spiritual written by Sam Cooke and J. W. Alexander called "Stand by Me Father", recorded by the Soul Stirrers
In 2009, after the "Stand by Me" video was posted online, it racked up 177,097,721 plays on YouTube (March 9, 2022), and suddenly Small had an international audience. Small signed on for a tour with a band of musicians affiliated with the Playing for Change project. [ 10 ]
Benjamin Earl King [1] (né Nelson; September 28, 1938 – April 30, 2015) was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He rose to prominence as one of the principal lead singers of the R&B vocal group the Drifters, notably singing the lead vocals on three of their biggest hit singles "There Goes My Baby", "This Magic Moment", and "Save the Last Dance for Me" (their only US No. 1 hit).
O'Connell opened up about hosting "The Talk" and "Pictionary," staying in touch with his "Stand by Me" co-stars ... "Some people call that 'extra,'" the funnyman quips while talking to Yahoo ...
O’Connell took time to acknowledge Wheaton’s confession last year during an interview with Yahoo Entertainment that a painful childhood riddled with "emotional abuse" helped fuel his ...
Stand by Me was released on VHS on March 19, 1987, by RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video. A DVD was issued on August 29, 2000, with a director's commentary, multiple language options (subtitles and audio), scene selections with motion images, and a featurette titled "Walking The Tracks: The Summer Of Stand by Me".
On January 25, 2018, Grey released a cover of Ben E. King's "Stand by Me", [59] which was featured in a Budweiser Super Bowl LII commercial. [60] A portion of the proceeds from the song went to the American Red Cross to benefit those affected by natural disasters. [61] A music video was released on February 2, 2018. [62]