As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Ben E. King


Soul singer Ben E. King died April 30th at the age of 76. Obviously King will always be best known for performing and co-writing (with Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller) the classic soul ballad “Stand By Me”, which was a Top 10 hit both when it originally came out in 1961 and when it was re-released in 1986, after being used as the theme for the equally great movie of the same name. King, however, was no one-hit wonder. As a solo singer, his singles hit Billboard’s Hot 100 over 20 times, including Top 10 hits “Spanish Harlem” (his first single) and “Supernatural Thing – Part 1” in 1975. He also sang lead on the two biggest hits the Drifters ever had: “There Goes My Baby” (for which he wrote the lyrics) and “Save The Last Dance For Me”, which reached #1 in 1960.
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