Ben E. King
De Ben E. King, gebuer den 28. September 1938 als Benjamin Earl Nelson zu Henderson, an North Carolina a gestuerwen den 30. Abrëll 2015 zu Teaneck, am New Jersey, war en US-amerikanesche R&B- a Soulsänger.

Hien huet 1955 an der Band Five Crowns ugefaange mat sangen a gouf 1959 bekannt als Tenor vun der Band The Drifters, déi mat Save the Last Dance for Me hire gréissten Erfolleg hat. Duerno huet hien eng Solocarrière gemaach.

1961 hat de Ben E. King säi gréisste kommerzielle Succès mat Stand by Me, deen an de spéiden 1980er Joren nach eng Kéier an Europa an d'Hitparade koum duerch säi Gebrauch an enger Jeans-Reklamm, an doduerch datt et den Titel an Titelsong vun engem Film war.

Aner Titelen, déi an den 1960er an 1970er Joren erauskoumen, haten och e gewësse Succès, mä koumen net méi un dee vu Stand by me erun.

Discographie

Alben 

 1961: Spanish Harlem (Atco)
 1962: Ben E. king Sings for Soulful Lovers
 1962: Don't Play That Song
 1964: Young Boy Blues
 1964: Ben E. King's Greatest Hits
 1965: Seven Letters
 1967: What Is Soul
 1970: Rough Edges (Maxwell)
 1972: The Beginning of It All (Mandala)
 1975: Supernatural (Atlantic)
 1976: I Had a Love
 1976: Rhapsody
 1977: Benny and US (mat der Average White Band)
 1978: Let Me Live in Your Life
 1980: Music Trance
 1981: Street Tough
 1987: Save the Last Dance for Me (EMI / Manhattan)
 1991: What's Important to Me (Ichiban)
 1993: Shades of Blue (Half Note)
 1998: The Very Best of Ben E. King (Atlantic])
 2003: Person to Person: Live at the Blue Note (Half Note)
 2006: I've Been Around (True Live)

Singelen 

 1961: First Taste of Love/Spanish Harlem
 1961: Amor/Souvenir of Mexico
 1961: Young Boy Blues/Here Comes The Night
 1962: Ecstasy/Yes
 1962: Don't Play That Song/Hermit Of Misty Mountain
 1962: Too Bad/My Heart Cries For You
 1962: I'm Standing By/Walking In The Footsteps Of A Fool
 1962: Tell Daddy/Auf Wiedersehen My Dear
 1963: How Can I Forget/Gloria Gloria
 1963: I (Who Have Nothing/The Beginning Of Time
 1963: I Could Have Danced All Night/Gypsy
 1964: What Now My Lov]/Groovin
 1964: That's When It Hurts/Around The Corner
 1964: What Can a Man Do ?/Si Senor
 1964: It's All Over/Let The Water Run Down
 1965: Seven Letters/River Of Tears
 1965: The Record (Baby I Love You)/The Way You Shake It
 1965: She's Gone Again/Not Now (I'll Tell You When)
 1965: Cry No More/There's No Place To Hide
 1965: Goodnight My Love/I Can't Break The News To Myself
 1966: So Much Love/Don't Drive Me Away
 1966: Get In a Hurry/I Swear By Stars Above
 1966: They Don't Give Medals to Yesterday's Hereos/What Is Soul?
 1967: A Man Without a Dream/Tears, tears, tears
 1967: Katherine/Teeny Weeny Little Bit
 1967: Don't Take Your Sweet Love Away/She Knows What To Do For Me
 1968: We Got a Thing Goin' On/What 'cha Gonna Do About It (with Dee Dee Sharp)
 1968: Don't take Your Love from Me/Forgive This Soul
 1968: Where's the Girl/It's Amazing
 1968: It Ain't Fair/Till I Can't Take It Anymore
 1969: Hey Little One/When You Love Someone
 1970: I Can't Take It Like a Man
 1972: Take Me to the Pilot
 1972: Into The Mystic
 1973: Spread Myself Around
 1975: Supernatural Thing Pt. 1
 1975: Do It in the Name of Love
 1975: We Got Love
 1975: I Hade a Love
 1976: I Betcha you Didn't Know
 1976: One More Time
 1977: Get It Up
 1977: A Star in the Ghetto
 1977: Fool for You Anyway
 1978: I See the Light
 1978: Fly Away to My Wonderland
 1979: Music Trance
 1981: Street Tough
 1981: You Made the Difference in My Life
 1986: Stand By Me (réédition)
 1987: Spanish Harlem (réédition)
 1987: Save the Last Dance for Me (ré-enregistré)
 1991: What's Important to Me
 1992: You've Got All of Me
 1992: You Still Move Me
 1997: 4th of July

Um Spaweck 

US-amerikanesch Museker
Soulsänger
Gebuer 1938
Gestuerwen 2015