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 film's marketers worried that it sounded like a horror movie, a bodybuilding film, or a porno. Reiner came up with the title Stand by Me based on the Ben E. King standard that he'd picked to play out over the end of the film.