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.
On the show, several bars from the song were also featured in the Stand by Me parody, as part of the episode Three Kings. Here, Petey LaChance, played by Peter Griffin, and Cleve Brown, played by Cleveland Brown, begin singing the song after the gang finishes singing  Have Gun-Will Travel theme . The song was part of the  T.V. Medley  on the Family Guy: Live in Vegas CD, performed by Brian and Stewie Griffin.