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Ben E. King
Benjamin Earl King was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He rose to prominence as one of the principal lead singers of the R&B vocal group the Drifters, singing the lead vocals on three of their biggest hit singles: "There Goes My Baby", "This Magic Moment", and "Save the Last Dance for Me".
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entertainment · American singer (1938–2015) · singer · songwriter · singer-songwriter · pianist · record producer · recording artist · musician · also Ben E. King, Ben King, Ben E King, Benjamin Earl King, Benjamin Earl Nelson, King
Born 28 September 1938 · Died 30 April 2015 · Q356140
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2026· 6 entries
Yahoo News Australia: Ben King to leave Gold Coast: Scenes confirm star's departure, Hawthorn likely
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afl.com.au: Magpie fans back chase of Lions champ, split on Ben King
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SSBCrack: Ben King bids farewell to Gold Coast Suns amid emotional exit and Hawthorn deal speculation
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7NEWS: Ben King's emotional farewell to Gold Coast
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7NEWS: Ben King bids ‘emotional’ farewell to Gold Coast Suns as Hawthorn deal beckons
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2024· 2 entries
Released album “Essential Classics, Vol. 499: Ben E. King”.
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Released album “Five Classic Albums”.
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2020· 2 entries
Released album “ベン・E.キング&ザ・ドリフターズ ベスト&グレイテスト・ヒッツ”.
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Released album “Stand By Me - The Collection”.
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2019· 2 entries
Released album “The Complete Atco and Atlantic Albums”.
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Released album “The Singles and Albums Collection 1960-62”.
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “Stand By Me... And Other Hits”.
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2016· 1 entry
Released album “I Have Songs in My Pocket”.
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2015· 4 entries
Released album “The Complete Atco/Atlantic Singles, Vol. 1: 1960-1966”.
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Released album “The Ultimate Best of Ben E. King”.
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The Guardian: Ben E King’s Stand By Me: a song as enduring as the love that inspired it
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Died 2015-04-30.
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2013· 1 entry
And played concerts in the United States as late as 2014, despite reported health problems
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2012· 3 entries
The Songwriters Hall of Fame announced that "Stand By Me" would receive its 2012 Towering Song Award and that King would be honored with the 2012 Towering Performance Award for his recording of the song
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Released album “Legends”.
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Released album “Their Greatest Hits”.
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2010· 3 entries
King performed "Stand by Me" at the Latin Grammys with Prince Royce
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Released album “Original Album Series”.
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Released album “Heart & Soul”.
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “The Best Of”.
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2006· 4 entries
Released album “Sings For Soulful Lovers / Seven Letters”.
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Released ep “Rhino Hi‐Five: Ben E. King”.
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Released album “I've Been Around”.
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Released album “American Music Legends”.
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2005· 2 entries
Released album “Live in Concert”.
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Released album “Stand by Me: The Ben E. King Collection”.
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Stand By Me”.
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2000· 1 entry
As well as the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012 with the Towering song award
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “Shades of Blue”.
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Released album “The Very Best of Ben E King & The Drifters”.
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “The Very Best of Ben E. King”.
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Which won the Early Childhood News Directors' Choice Award and Dr
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1997· 3 entries
Released album “The Hits Collection”.
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Released album “Stand by Me and Other Hits”.
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Released album “3 for 3”.
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1993· 3 entries
Released album “The Best of Ben E. King & The Drifters”.
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Released album “Anthology”.
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Released album “Best of Ben E. King”.
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “What's Important to Me”.
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1990· 2 entries
Released album “The Very Best of Ben E. King and The Drifters”.
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King and Bo Diddley, along with Doug Lazy, recorded a revamped hip hop version of the Monotones' 1958 hit song "Book of Love" for the soundtrack of the movie Book of Love
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Ben E. King & Percy Sledge”.
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1988· 2 entries
As a member of the Drifters, and has been nominated as a solo artist
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Released album “Save the Last Dance for Me”.
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1987· 2 entries
Released album “The Ultimate Collection: Stand by Me”.
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Released album “The Voice of Soul”.
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “12 Greatest Hits”.
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “Street Tough”.
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And Led Zeppelin covered “Groovin’” (better known as “We're Gonna Groove”)
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “Music Trance”.
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “Let Me Live in Your Life”.
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1977· 2 entries
Released album “Benny and Us”.
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King collaborated with Average White Band in releasing the album Benny & Us
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1976· 1 entry
Released album “I had a Love”.
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1975· 2 entries
King made a comeback on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with the disco hit "Supernatural Thing": number 5 on Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the Billboard R&B chart
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Released album “Supernatural”.
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1971· 1 entry
Released album “The Beginning of It All”.
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1970· 2 entries
And “Spanish Harlem” was memorably interpreted by Aretha Franklin in 1971
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Released album “Rough Edges”.
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1967· 1 entry
Released album “What Is Soul”.
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1964· 4 entries
Released album “Ben E. King's Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Young Boy Blues”.
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Released album “Seven Letters”.
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Released ep “What Now My Love”.
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1963· 1 entry
Tom Jones in 1970, and later by Sylvester in 1979
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1962· 2 entries
Released album “Ben E. King Sings for Soulful Lovers”.
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Released album “Don’t Play That Song!”.
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1961· 2 entries
And later in 1986 (when it was used as the theme to the film of the same name), and a number-one hit in the United Kingdom the following year
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Released album “Spanish Harlem”.
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1958· 1 entry
King (still using his birth name) joined a doo-wop group called the Five Crowns
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1938· 2 entries
In Henderson, North Carolina, but moved to Harlem, New York, at age nine in 1947
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Born 1938-09-28.
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