1. a restaurant providing food, drink, and often a floor show or other entertainment; nightclub or cafÃ©. 2. the entertainment at a cabaret.
1 The novella's title is The Body. It was changed to Stand By Me for the film when the song was selected for the end-credits.  The novella takes place in Castle Rock, Maine in 1960; the film takes place in Castle Rock, Oregon in 1959.
More than 400 artists have covered Ben E. King's signature hit Stand by Me. With the passing of the R&B great, we had to go back and re-listen to some of our favorite versions of the timeless song. Starting, of course, with King's own. Ben E. King. Thanks to the movie of the same name, Stand by Me was a top 10 hit for King in 1986 after originally climbing the charts in 1961. Ben E. King with Def Leppard.