Ben E. King, the smooth, soulful baritone who led the Drifters on “There Goes My Baby,” “Save the Last Dance for Me” and other hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and as a solo artist recorded the classic singles “Spanish Harlem” and “Stand by Me,” died on Thursday in Hackensack, N.J., William Grimes reports on nytimes.com.
He was 76.
Here’s King doing “Stand by Me” on the Letterman Show in 2007:http://kenallensforum.blogspot.com/
