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.
We Gotta Get out of This Place was also used in Dennis Potter 's 1965 television play Stand Up, Nigel Barton and the BBC 's 1996 Newcastle-set Our Friends in the North, which partially took place in the 1960s.