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.
The Body is a novella by American writer Stephen King, originally published in his 1982 collection Different Seasons and adapted into the 1986 film Stand by Me. Some changes were made to the plot of the film, including changing the setting year from 1960 to 1959 and the location of Castle Rock from Maine to Oregon.