Ben E. King

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Ben E. King
Gebuertsnumm Benjamin Earl Nelson
Gebuer 28. September 1938
Gestuerwen 30. Abrëll 2015
Doudesursaach Häerz-Kreeslafkrankheet
Nationalitéit USA
Aktivitéit Sänger, Museker, 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[änneren | Quelltext änneren]

Alben[änneren | Quelltext änneren]

  • 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[änneren | Quelltext änneren]

  • 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[änneren | Quelltext änneren]

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