Ben E. King

Ben E. King
Ben E. King
Gebuertsnumm	Benjamin Earl Nelson
Gebuer	28. September 1938
Gestuerwen	30. Abrëll 2015
Doudesursaach	Häerz-Kreeslafkrankheet
Nationalitéit	USA
Aktivitéit	Sänger, Lidderschreiwer, Liddermécher, Pianist, Museksproduzent, Discographesche Kënschtler

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

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