Talk:Stand by Me (Ben E. King song)

message: are you sure sam cooke recoded a version of this song?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.118.234.240 (talk) 04:53, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There is also a cover version of this song by Demis Roussos, see  -- MarkusHagenlocher (talk) 09:41, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I added it to the article, the song was on Roussos album Reflection. -- MarkusHagenlocher (talk) 18:00, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Demis Roussos

message: The title paragraph on the main page says this is somehow related to Charles Tindley's song, but there is no similarity between the two. (Well, they share the same title but so do 30 other songs.) I'm taking the tindley reference out. 
To see the tindley lyrics and a midi file go to
   Stand by Me by Charles Tindley.
To hear Doc Watson's version of the Tindley song, see youtube at
   | Stand By Me - Doc Watson and David Holt
These are unrelated songs and the title paragraph for King's song should not include this reference.
Arthur1414 (talk) 23:06, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Common misconception

message: There was a very famous version of this song in a video with The Lion King's Timon and Pumbaa that aired before various movies and during commercial breaks between Disney programming. It should be covered in this article.--96.29.174.77 (talk) 05:08, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Timon and Pumbaa

message: This paragraph:
"The fact that arranger Stan Applebaum could not possibly have dashed off an entire string chart at the end of a session, much less copied and distributed all the parts, supports this less dramatic version of the events."
Is speculative and not encyclopedic at all. 209.188.63.211 (talk) 21:42, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Editorial Language

message: The "Structure" section does not give the time.  Is it 4-4?137.159.184.234 (talk) 22:12, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time? 

message: 66.162.249.170 changed several key words. They emphasize that recordings of this songs are often unique versions, rather than attempts to cash in on the style of the previous versions or attempts at slavish homage. think this is a good way to look at peoples playing others works. The classical, "folk" and "traditional" music worlds approach the works like this. Thank you for the changes. Brunswicknic (talk) 06:50, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recordings, versions, not covers, Anonymous changes to text 

message: It says in the "Song Information" section:
"After the 'Spanish Harlem' recording session..."
When was this? How long before then had he composed it? 
There should be more date information in many articles, this one included. "What" is important but "when" gives context. Ileanadu (talk) 18:52, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I looked at the article on the song, "Spanish Harlem," and saw that it was recorded in 1960, so I added that info. I first thought it was referring to a recording made in Spanish Harlem, the geographic area, but then I went to the link and realized it referred to the song. Ileanadu (talk) 21:03, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  When? Dates? 

message: I don't know if it's technically correct, but "the former work" in the following is very confusing.  Is it the song mentioned first?  Recorded first?    
 
 ″According to King, the title is derived from, and was inspired by, a spiritual written by Sam Cooke and J. W. Alexander called "Stand by Me Father," recorded by the Soul Stirrers with Johnnie Taylor singing lead. The third line of the second verse of the former work derives from Psalm 46:2c/3c.[2]″
ProfessorAndro (talk) 19:57, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  confusing wording 

message: Of course, multiple artists have covered the song, like John Lennon. However, I thought that having so many infoboxes in the introduction would cause editing issues. If viewed on mobile web (expanded) or mobile app (collapsed by default), a reader would see too many in the introduction before reading the article further. Which infoboxes are needed? Which infoboxes are not needed? --George Ho (talk) 05:43, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: You're quite right, it's ludicrous.  There doesn't seem to be any guidance on this at MOS:INFOBOX, though it's been discussed on the talk page there in the past.  Personally, I would only include the infobox for the Ben E. King version.   Ghmyrtle (talk) 07:14, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  I eliminate both the Maurice White and the 4 the Cause infoboxes. I also rearranged other infoboxes, then expanded the "other notable versions" section and separated some portions into individual sections, i.e. John Lennon and Playing for Change. George Ho (talk) 02:13, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: That is an improvement - thanks.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 07:32, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many infoboxes? 

message: Because Lennon's version debuted at #78 on the Hot 100 on 15 March 1975 and Billboard had already constructed that chart more than a week before, therefore Lennon's version must have been released prior to 10 March 1975.98.149.97.245 (talk) 03:59, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Release of John Lennon's version 

message: What about the Otis Redding version? Dark Lord Thomas Pie (talk) 21:39, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Mentions of several 1960s versions of the song were removed from the article earlier this year, on the basis of WP:SONGCOVER.  But I think the fact that Redding covered it is notable, so I've reinstated it.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 22:03, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Otis Redding 

message: We should include a mention of the bollywood version, called Dildaara, and featured in the "Ra One" film of 2011. Forich (talk) 01:37, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know whether the bollywood version is worth mentioning, even with a book's brief mentioning and Bollywood Life's. I tried other sources without avail. --George Ho (talk) 01:53, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  If it helps, apparently the album and the song did very good on India's charts in 2011. Forich (talk) 02:13, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's just an author's opinion to me. Also, trivially mentions the song as part of an album review. --George Ho (talk) 03:34, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bollywood version 

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