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.
Composed by Ben E. King / Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller. Song Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine. Stand By Me sounds like it wasn't written, that it just always existed -- it wasn't heard until Ben E. King released it as a single in the spring of 1961. Of course, that isn't the case. King wrote the song with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and it was released as the follow-up to Spanish Harlem, King's first big hit since leaving the Drifters.