What lovely song. And he performed it so well.
Up there with Stand By Me is this one...
Spanish Harlem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGd6CdtOqEE
RIP Mr. King
The Drifters’s Greatest Hits - Best Of The Drifters:
(FULL ALBUM: 90 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wa-7ni1pB8
Great story with this song...
From Wiki (Ben E King)...
Singles with the Drifters:
“There Goes My Baby” (1959) R&B: #1 US: #2
“Oh My Love (1959)
“Dance With Me” (1959) R&B: #2 US: #15 UK: #17
“This Magic Moment” (1960) R&B: #4 US: #16
“Lonely Winds” (1960) R&B: #9 US: #54
“Hey Señorita” (1960)
“Save the Last Dance for Me” (1960) R&B: #1 US: #1 UK: #2
“Nobody But Me” (1960)
“I Count the Tears” (1960) US: #17 UK: #28
“Sometimes I Wonder” (1962)
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Solo singles:
“Brace Yourself (1960, Atco)
“Show Me the Way” (1960, Atco)
“A Help-Each-Other Romance” (1960, Atlantic) with LaVern BakerCB: #105
“How Often” (1960, Atlantic) with LaVern Baker
“Spanish Harlem (1961, Atco) R&B: #15 US: #10, CB: #9
“First Taste of Love” (1961) US: #53 UK: #27, CB: #91 (b-side of “Spanish Harlem”)
“Stand by Me” (1961) R&B: #1 US: #4 UK: #27, CB: #3
“Amor” (1961) R&B: #10 US: #18 UK: #38, CB: #19
“Young Boy Blues” (1961) US: #66, CB: #86
“Here Comes the Night” (1961) US: #81 (b-side of “Young Boy Blues”) CB: #TAG
“Ecstasy” (1962) US: #56, CB: #50
“Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)” (1962) R&B: #2 US: #11, CB: #11
“Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear (1962)
“Too Bad” (1962) US: #88, CB: #88
“I’m Standing By” (1962) US:#111, CB: #123
“Tell Daddy” (1962) US:#122 R&B: #29, CB: #138
“How Can I Forget” (1963) R&B: #23 US: #85, CB: #82
“I (Who Have Nothing)” (1963) R&B: #16 US: #29, CB: #25, AC: #10
“The Beginning of Time” (1963) CB: #tag (b-side of “I (Who Have Nothing)”)
“I Could Have Danced All Night” (1963) US: #72, CB: #112
“Gypsy” (1963) CB: #tag (b-side of “I Could Have Danced All Night”)
“What Now My Love” (1964) US:#102, CB: #132
“That’s When It Hurts” (1964) US: #63, CB: #57, R&B: #17
“What Can A Man Do” (1964) R&B: #39, US:#113, CB: #106
“It’s All Over” (1964) R&B: #40, US: #72, CB: #93
“Let the Water Run Down” (1964) CB: #144 (b-side of “It’s All Over”)
“Around The Corner” (1964) US:#125
“Seven Letters” (1965) R&B: #11 US: #45, CB: #58
“The Record (Baby I Love You)” (1965) Pop: #84 R&B: #24, CB: #105
“She’s Gone Again” (1965) US: #128
“Cry No More” (1965)
“(There’s) No Place To Hide” (1965) (b-side of “Cry No More”)
“Goodnight My Love” (1965) US: #91, CB: #87
“So Much Love” (1966) US: #96, CB: #54
“Get In a Hurry” (1966)
“I Swear By Stars Above” (1966) R&B: #35 (b-side of “Get in a Hurry”)
“They Don’t Give Medals to Yesterday’s Heroes” (1966)
“What Is Soul?” (1966) R&B: #38, CB: #113 (b-side of “They Don’t Give...”)
“A Man Without a Dream (1967)
“Tears, Tears, Tears” (1967) R&B: #34 US: #93, CB: #105 (b-side of “A Man Without...”)
“Katherine” (1967) CB: #113
“Teeny Weeny Little Bit” (1967) (b-side of “Katherine”)
“Don’t Take Your Sweet Love Away” (1967) R&B: #44
“We Got a Thing Goin’ On” (1968) with Dee Dee Sharp US: #127, CB: #122
“Don’t Take Your Love from Me” (1968) US: #117
“Where’s the Girl” (1968)
“It Ain’t Fair” (1968)
“Soul Meeting” (1968) with The Soul Clan R&B: #34
“Till I Can’t Take It Anymore” (1968) R&B: #45, US: #134, CB: #135
“Hey Little One” (1969)
“I Can’t Take It Like a Man” (1970, Maxwell) R&B: #45
“Take Me to the Pilot” (1972, Mandala)
“Into the Mystic” (1972)
“Spread Myself Around” (1973)
“Supernatural Thing, Part 1” (1975, Atlantic) R&B: #1 US: #5, CB: #9
“Do It in the Name of Love” (1975) R&B: #4 US: #60, CB: #64
“We Got Love” (1975)
“I Had a Love” (1975) R&B: #23, CB: #104 (b-side of “We Got Love”)
“I Betcha you Didn’t Know” (1976)
“Get It Up” (1977) with Average White Band R&B: #21
“A Star in the Ghetto” (1977) R&B: #25 with Average White Band
“Fool for You Anyway” (1977) with Average White Band
“I See the Light” (1978)
“Fly Away to My Wonderland” (1978)
“Music Trance” (1979) R&B: #29
“Street Tough” (1981)
“You Made the Difference in My Life” (1981)
“Stand By Me [re-issue]” (1986) US: #9 UK: #1, CB: #10, AC: #10
“Spanish Harlem [re-issue]” (1987)
“Save the Last Dance for Me” [re-recorded] (1987, EMI-Manhattan) UK: #69
“What’s Important to Me” (1991, Ichiban)
“You’ve Got All of Me” (1992)
“You Still Move Me” (1992)
“4th of July” (1997, Right Stuff)[13]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_E._King
“Stand By Me”, “Hats Off To Larry”, and “Crying” were my favorite songs in the summer of 1961.
You had a wonderful voice, Mr. King. Bon voyage.
Enjoyed his songs. RIP to Mr. King.