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 Solokarriär 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