Stand by Me (Ben E. King song)#John Lennon version

File:Ben E. King 1990s.jpg (pictured in 1990s) originally sang the song, becoming a hit in the US in 1961 and again in 1986.]]

In 1960, Ben E. King was inspired to update the early 20th-century gospel hymn "Stand by Me" by Charles Albert Tindley, which was based on Psalm 46, "will not we fear, though the Earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea."{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44200577|title=Stand By Me: More than a royal wedding song|last=Connor|first=Alan|date=May 21, 2018|work=BBC News|access-date=June 6, 2018|language=en-GB}} According to the documentary History of Rock 'n' Roll, King had no intention of recording the song himself."Good Rockin' Tonight". (c) 1995 Time-Life Video. King had written it for the Drifters, who passed on recording it. After the "Spanish Harlem" recording session in 1960, King had some studio time left over. The session's producers, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, asked if he had any more songs. King played it on the piano for them. They liked it and called the studio musicians back in to record it.

Stoller recalls it differently:

I remember arriving at our office as Jerry and Ben were working on lyrics for a new song. King had the beginnings of a melody that he was singing a cappella. I went to the piano and worked up the harmonies, developing a bass pattern that became the signature of the song. Ben and Jerry quickly finished the lyrics ... .{{cite book|title=Hound Dog: The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography|first1=Jerry|last1=Leiber|first2=Mike|last2=Stoller|first3=David|last3=Ritz|page=[https://archive.org/details/hounddogleiberan00leib/page/174 174]|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=2009|isbn=978-1-4165-5938-2|url=https://archive.org/details/hounddogleiberan00leib|url-access=registration}}

In another interview, Stoller said:

Ben E. had the beginnings of a song—both words and music. He worked on the lyrics together with Jerry, and I added elements to the music, particularly the bass line. To some degree, it's based on a gospel song called "Lord Stand By Me". I have a feeling that Jerry and Ben E. were inspired by it. Ben, of course, had a strong background in church music. He's a 50% writer on the song, and Jerry and I are 25% each.... When I walked in, Jerry and Ben E. were working on the lyrics to a song. They were at an old oak desk we had in the office. Jerry was sitting behind it, and Benny was sitting on the top. They looked up and said they were writing a song. I said, "Let me hear it."... Ben began to sing the song a cappella. I went over to the upright piano and found the chord changes behind the melody he was singing. It was in the key of A. Then I created a bass line. Jerry said, "Man that's it!" We used my bass pattern for a starting point and, later, we used it as the basis for the string arrangement created by Stanley Applebaum.{{cite web|url=http://www.jazzwax.com/2012/05/|title=May 2012|publisher=JazzWax|access-date=September 26, 2016}}

The personnel on the song included Romeo Penque on sax, Ernie Hayes on piano, Al Caiola and Charles McCracken on guitars, Lloyd Trotman on double bass, Phil Kraus on percussion, and Gary Chester on drums, plus a wordless mixed chorus and strings. Songwriting credits on the single were shown as King and Elmo Glick—a pseudonym used by Leiber and Stoller.

The song uses a version of the common chord progression now called the '50s progression, which has been called the "'Stand by Me' changes" after the song.{{cite journal|title=The So-Called 'Flattened Seventh' in Rock|first=Allan|last=Moore|journal=Popular Music|volume=14|issue=2|year=1995|pages=185–201|publisher=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/S0261143000007431|s2cid=162661553 }}

King's record went to number 1 on the R&B charts{{cite book|title=Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|author-link=Joel Whitburn|year=2004|publisher=Record Research|page=325}} and was a Top Ten hit on the US charts twice—in its original release, entering the Billboard chart on May 13, 1961{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1961-05-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417001944/http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1961-05-13|archive-date=April 17, 2015|title=Music: Top 100 Songs | Billboard Hot 100 Chart|magazine=Billboard}} and peaking at number 4 on June 16, 1961, and a 1986 re-release coinciding with its use as the theme song for the film of the same name following its appearance in the film, when it peaked at number 9 on December 20, 1986 – January 3, 1987. The song is also heard in the televised advertisement of Levi's 501 jeans. In the commercial, a man wearing a black denim jeans is able to enter a nightclub whose policy is "no blue jeans".{{cite book |first=Paul |last=Jobling |year=2014 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wPkqAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22stand%20by%20me%22%20levi's%20501%20-wikipedia&pg=PA177 |chapter=25: A Soundtrack for Consumerism: Music, Image and Myth |title=Advertising Menswear: Masculinity and Fashion in the British Media Since 1945 |publisher=Bloomsbury |location=London |isbn=978-1-4725-5811-4 |lccn=2013045221 }} "Stand by Me" also topped the charts in Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom upon its re-release. In the latter country, the song topped the UK Singles Chart in January 1987, mostly because of the jeans TV commercial, originally peaking at number 27 on the UK Singles Chart on its original release in Britain in 1961. Originally "Stand by Me" was not released on an album until it had been out as a single for over a year, eventually appearing on King's Don't Play That Song! album in 1962.

"Stand by Me" was ranked 122nd on Rolling Stone{{'}}s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 1999, BMI named it as the fourth most-performed song of the 20th century, with about seven million performances.{{cite news|url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/232893|title=BMI Announces Top 100 Songs of the Century | News|newspaper=BMI.com|date=December 13, 1999|access-date=September 26, 2016}} On March 27, 2012, the Songwriters Hall of Fame announced that the song would receive its 2012 Towering Song Award and that King would be honored with the 2012 Towering Performance Award for his recording of it.{{cite web|url=http://www.songhall.org/news/entry/stand_by_me_named_towering_song_ben_e_king_towering_performance_lance_freed|title=Stand By Me Named Towering Song, Ben E. King Towering Performance, Lance Freed Abe Olman Publisher|publisher=SongHall|access-date=September 26, 2016}} In February 2019, the Smooth Radio network in the United Kingdom called it one "of the best love songs of the 1960s".{{cite news|url=https://www.smoothradio.com/features/top-songs/1960s-love-songs/|title=12 of the best love songs of the 1960s|newspaper=Smooth|date=February 5, 2019|access-date=August 31, 2019}}

"Stand by Me" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.{{Cite web | title=GRAMMY Hall Of Fame {{!}} Hall of Fame Artists {{!}} GRAMMY.com | url=https://www.grammy.com/awards/hall-of-fame-award#s | access-date=2024-12-17 | website=www.grammy.com}}

For the year-end charts in the US, the song was the number 63 song of 1961{{cite web|url=http://longboredsurfer.com/charts/1961|title=1961|publisher=Longbored Surfer|access-date=September 26, 2016}} and number 67 of 1987.{{cite web|url=http://longboredsurfer.com/charts/1987|title=1987|publisher=Longbored Surfer|access-date=September 26, 2016}}

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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|type=single|artist=Ben E. King|title=Standy By Me|award=Gold|relyear=1961|certyear=1987|note=physical|access-date=December 27, 2020}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Denmark|type=single|artist=Ben E. King|title=Standy By Me|award=Platinum|relyear=1961|certyear=2022|id=11530|access-date=August 4, 2022}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Italy|type=single|artist=Ben E. King|title=Standy By Me|award=Platinum|relyear=1961|certyear=2023|note=sales since 2009|id=10525|access-date=February 7, 2023}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Japan|type=single|artist=Ben E. King|title=Standy By Me|award=Platinum|relyear=1991|certyear=1994|certmonth=5|note=1991 physical release|access-date=December 27, 2020|refname=RIAJ}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Japan|type=ringtone|artist=Ben E. King|title=Standy By Me|award=Gold|relyear=2004|certyear=2011|certmonth=11|note=Full-length ringtone|access-date=February 17, 2021|refname=RIAJ1}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|artist=Ben E. King|title=Stand By Me|award=Platinum|number=3|relyear=2004|certyear=2024|refname=BPI1|id=6229-306-1|access-date=December 23, 2024}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=single|artist=Ben E. King|title=Stand By Me|nocert=true|salesamount=1,639,489|note=digital sales|salesref={{cite news|url=http://www.defjampromo.com/files/2009/10/BB-Digital-Songs-Chart-Wk.-Ending-9-14-17.pdf|title=Nielsen SoundScan charts – Digital Songs – Week Ending: 09/14/2017|work=Nielsen SoundScan|access-date=June 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170919211714/http://www.defjampromo.com/files/2009/10/BB-Digital-Songs-Chart-Wk.-Ending-9-14-17.pdf|archive-date=September 19, 2017}}}}

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{{Infobox song

| name = Stand by Me

| type = single

| image = Stand by me by john lennon US Starline reissue variant A.png

| caption = Side A of a US reissue

| artist = John Lennon

| album = Rock 'n' Roll

| B-side = Move Over Ms. L

| released = March 10, 1975

| recorded = 1974

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Rock and roll

| length = {{Duration|m=3|s=26}}

| label = Apple

| producer = John Lennon

| prev_title = Number 9 Dream

| prev_year = 1974

| next_title = (Just Like) Starting Over

| next_year = 1980

| misc = {{External music video|header=Official music video|{{YouTube|YqB8Dm65X18|"Stand by Me" (Ultimate Mix, 2020) by John Lennon}}}}

}}

File:John Lennon last television interview Tomorrow show 1975 (cropped 2).JPG in summer 1975]]

John Lennon recorded his version of the song{{Citation |title=Stand by me cover song by John Lennon |url=https://www.bitchute.com/video/L0loenpGbXBG/ |language=en |access-date=July 7, 2022}} for his 1975 album Rock 'n' Roll. Lennon's remake became a single three weeks after the album's release{{cite book|first1=Ben|last1=Urish|first2=Ken|last2=Bielen|year=2007|chapter=What You Got, 1973–1975|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJ9Y0YgSE1oC&q=%22stand%20by%20me%22%20%22john%20lennon%22%20%22pussy%20cats%22%20-youtube%20-imdb%20-wikipedia&pg=PA66|title=The Words and Music of John Lennon|series=The Praeger Singer-Songwriter Collection|editor=James E. Perone|pages=66–67|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|location=Westport, Connecticut|isbn=978-0-275-99180-7}} and was his last hit prior to his five-year retirement from the music industry. Lennon filmed a performance of the song for The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1975.{{cite AV media|title=The Old Grey Whistle Test|medium=DVD|publisher=Warner Home Video|year=2003}} Cash Box said of it that "John's serenading guitar chords herald this bright new production of one of rockdom's favorites," and that it displays Lennon's "magical, mysterious voice...at his finest."{{cite news|title=CashBox Record Reviews|date=March 15, 1975|page=38|access-date=December 11, 2021|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1975/CB-1975-03-15.pdf|newspaper=Cash Box}}

On the week of May 3, 1975, this version was in its second of two weeks at the peak position number 20 on the US Hot 100, right in front of King's comeback hit "Supernatural Thing – Part I" at number 21. Both tunes fell off the top 40 the next week and off the chart the week after that. Lennon's version stayed on top 100 of the UK Singles Chart for seven weeks, peaking at number 30 on its fourth week on the week of May 18–24, 1975.{{cite web|title=Official Singles Chart Top 50: 18 May 1975 – 24 May 1975|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19750518/7501/|website=Official Charts}} It peaked at number 13 on Canada's RPM Top Singles chart on the week ending May 3, 1975{{cite periodical|title=Top Singles|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=8082&|date=May 3, 1975|magazine=RPM|volume=23|number=10|via=Library and Archives Canada}} and stayed on the peak position the following week.{{cite periodical|title=Top Singles|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=7138&|date=May 10, 1975|magazine=RPM|volume=23|number=11|via=Library and Archives Canada}} It peaked at number 11 on the Official New Zealand Music Chart on the week of July 14, 1975.{{cite web|url=https://aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/archive/singles/1975-07-11|title=Official Top 40 Singles (14 July 1975)|website=Recorded Music NZ}}

The single's B-side track is "Move Over Ms. L", initially intended for Lennon's previous album Walls and Bridges but was cut from the final lineup due to his dissatisfaction with his early takes.{{sfn|Urish|Bielen|2007|page=63}} Keith Moon covered "Move Over Ms. L" for his 1975 solo album Two Sides of the Moon.{{sfn|Urish|Bielen|2007|page=63}}

Before the parent album's official release, during Lennon's March 1974 sessions with Harry Nilsson for Nilsson's album Pussy Cats, Lennon recorded two takes of the song in collaboration with former Beatles member Paul McCartney. McCartney performed on the drums; Lennon on guitar. The unreleased recordings would eventually be included in a bootleg album A Toot and a Snore in '74.James A. Mitchell, The Walrus & the Elephants: John Lennon's Years of Revolution, Seven Stories Press (New York, 2013). {{ISBN|978-1-60980-467-1}}.

Billboard regarded Lennon's version as "the best version since the original."{{cite news|title=Top Single Picks|newspaper=Billboard|access-date=July 17, 2020|date=March 15, 1975|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/70s/1975/Billboard%201975-03-15.pdf|page=82}} Pitchfork writer Marc Hogan found Lennon's version "more affecting (just barely)" than the original due to the "acoustic guitar and Lennon's fervent vocals".{{cite web|first=Marc|last=Hogan|date=November 9, 2004|title=John Lennon: Acoustic / Rock 'n' Roll|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/4732-acoustic-rock-n-roll/|website=Pitchfork|access-date=August 29, 2019}} A 2007 book The Words and Music of John Lennon by Ben Urish and Ken Bielen called Lennon's version one of the "stronger" tracks of the album. Journalist and book author Robert Webb in 2013 called this version one of the "greatest cover versions".{{cite book|first=Robert|last=Webb|year=2013|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hY-WAgAAQBAJ&q=%22stand%20by%20me%22%20%22john%20lennon%22%20-youtube%20-imdb%20-wikipedia&pg=PA38|chapter='Stand by Me', John Lennon (1975); Original by Ben E. King (1961)|title=The 100 Greatest Cover Versions: The Ultimate Playlist|publisher=McNidder & Grace|pages=38–39|isbn=9780857160195}}

Personnel per John Lennon Website{{Cite web|title=Stand By Me|url=http://www.johnlennon.com/music/singles/stand-by-me/|access-date=July 22, 2020|website=John Lennon|language=en-GB}}

• John Lennon – vocals, acoustic guitar
• Jesse Ed Davis, Peter Jameson – electric guitar
• Eddie Mottau – acoustic guitar
• Ken Ascher – piano
• Klaus Voormann – bass guitar
• Joseph Temperly, Frank Vicari – saxophone
• Dennis Morouse – tenor saxophone
• Jim Keltner – drums
• Arthur Jenkins – percussion

{{Infobox song

| name = Stand by Me

| type = single

| artist = Mickey Gilley

| album = Urban Cowboy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

| B-side = "Cotton-Eyed Joe" by the Unstrung Heroes
"Here Comes the Hurt Again" (UK)

| released = May 31, 1980

| recorded = 1980

| studio =

| genre = Soft rock{{cite magazine|last= Rolling Stone Staff|title= The 101 Greatest Soundtracks of All Time|magazine= Rolling Stone|date= September 24, 2024|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-movie-soundtracks-1235083518/|accessdate= October 5, 2024}}

| length = {{Duration|m=3|s=35}}

| label = Epic

| producer = Jim Ed Norman

| prev_title = True Love Ways

| prev_year = 1980

| next_title = That's All That Matters

| next_year = 1980

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Mickey Gilley released his version of the song in 1980, and it was included in the movie Urban Cowboy. It was his eighth No. 1 on the US country charts and also reached No. 22 on the US Hot 100. This version also peaked at No. 3 in Canadian RPM Country Singles in September 1980{{cite magazine|title=RPM Country 75 Singles|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=218|magazine=RPM|date=September 6, 1980|via=Canada.ca}} and No. 51 in RPM Top Singles the following month.{{cite magazine|title=RPM 100 Singles|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=241|magazine=RPM|date=October 11, 1980|via=Canada.ca}} The song would "become one of Gilley's signature songs."{{cite news|first=Adrian|last=Gomez|date=April 5, 2019|title=In the Saddle: Mickey Gilley bringing 'Urban Cowboy Reunion' tour to NM|url=https://www.abqjournal.com/1299421/mickey-gilley-bringing-urban-cowboy-reunion-tour-to-nm.html|website=Albuquerque Journal}}

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{{external media|float=right|video1=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM Official music video] via verified Playing for Change channel on YouTube}}

Documentary filmmaker Mark Johnson, who had created the Playing for Change project, witnessed street performer Roger Ridley singing "Stand by Me" in Santa Monica, California, in March 2005.{{cite book|year=2017|orig-year=2011|first=Olivier|last=Urbain|chapter=Inspiring Musical Movements and Global Solidarity|title=Music and Solidarity|volume=15: Peace & Policy|editor1=Felicity Laurence|editor2=Olivier Urbain|publisher=Taylor & Francis Group|location=New York City|lccn=2010051407|isbn=978-1-4128-4230-3}} Ridley died eight months later.

Johnson was inspired to film Ridley's performance and another thirty-six musicians' individual performances of the song "around the world"{{cite magazine|first=Mitchell|last=Peters|date=May 16, 2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A2zL-uK-eE0C&q=%22playing+for+change%22+%22Stand+By+Me%22+-wikipedia&pg=PT46|title=Peaceful Dreams|page=46|magazine=Billboard|access-date=August 29, 2019|via=Google Books}} and then mix the clips into one music video. The music video was featured in an October 2008 episode of Bill Moyers Journal, where Johnson was promoting the documentary film Playing for Change: Peace Through Music,{{cite episode|first=Mark|last=Johnson|date=October 24, 2008|title=Transcript of October 24, 2008 episode featuring Playing for Change: Peace Through Music segment|url=https://billmoyers.com/content/playing-change/|interviewer=Bill Moyers|series=Bill Moyers Journal|access-date=August 29, 2019}} which includes the music video and was shown as part of the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. The music video was uploaded via the Playing for Change YouTube channel in November 2008, garnering more than 10 million views in May 2009. The total amount of views of the YouTube video increased to more than 24 million in December 2010,{{cite news|first=Olivia|last=Katrandjian|date=December 17, 2010|title=Connecting the World, One Song at a Time|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/playing-change-virtual-recording-studio-connecting-world-music/story?id=12384256|website=ABC News|access-date=August 30, 2019}} 30 million in March 2011,{{cite news|url=https://worldmusiccentral.org/2011/03/21/video-of-the-week-playing-for-changes-redemption-song-video/|title=Video of the Week: Playing for Change's Redemption Song Video|website=World Music Central.org|date=March 21, 2011}} 40 million in March 2012,{{cite news|first=Isha|last=Sesay|date=March 20, 2012|title=Playing for Change: Street musicians unite world through songs|url=https://www.cnn.com/2012/03/20/showbiz/playing-for-change-africa/index.html|website=CNN|access-date=August 30, 2019}} 50 million in some time between 2012 and 2014,{{cite book|first=Alan|last=Williams|chapter=The Problem and Potential of Commerce|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VY1yCQAAQBAJ&q=%22playing+for+change%22+%22Stand+By+Me%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA796|title=The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology|editor1=Svanibor Pettan|editor2=Jeff Todd Titon|page=793|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York City|isbn=978-0-19-935170-1|year=2015}} Williams's essay does not specify when the total views reached to 50 million. 60 million in 2014,{{cite news|first=John|last=Spevak|date=July 9, 2014|title=Band headlining BBQ fest is in 'joy business'|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/lifestyle/columnist/spevak/2014/07/09/spevak-band-headlining-bbq-fest-joy-business/12377213/|website=Democrat and Chronicle|access-date=August 30, 2019}} 74 million in May 2015,{{cite magazine|first=John|last=Donohue|date=May 5, 2015|title=The Eternal 'Stand by Me'|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-eternal-stand-by-me|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=August 30, 2019}} 100 million in 2017,{{cite web|title=Playing For Change Announces 'We Are One' Benefit Concert|url=https://playingforchange.com/playing-change-announces-one-benefit-concert/|website=Playing for Change|date=August 22, 2017|access-date=August 30, 2019|archive-date=August 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830171303/https://playingforchange.com/playing-change-announces-one-benefit-concert/|url-status=dead}} 140{{Cite news|title=All the world's a stage – buskers can make it big in a connected world|url=http://theconversation.com/all-the-worlds-a-stage-buskers-can-make-it-big-in-a-connected-world-131914|last=Bacchieri|first=Daniel|date=March 8, 2020|access-date=March 26, 2020|work=The Conversation}} (or 142{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-there-is-humor-there-is-hope/2020/03/20/b0f3914a-6ae2-11ea-abef-020f086a3fab_story.html|title=Where there is humor, there is hope|date=March 20, 2020|access-date=March 26, 2020|newspaper=The Washington Post|last=Parker|first=Kathleen}}) million in March 2020, and 190 million in November 2023.{{cite news |first=Valerie |last=Complex |date=November 16, 2023 |title=Stand By Me Song Getting Feature Documentary Treatment |url=https://deadline.com/2023/11/stand-by-me-song-documentary-1235613465/ |work=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=February 9, 2024 }}

The musicians' performance of the song would be later included in their 2009 debut album Songs Around the World.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}} The debut album has nine other tracks, comes with the seven-track bonus DVD, and sold about 26,000 units on its first week, 85% of sales from online sales and "nontraditional retail stores (including Starbucks locations)" and 25% from outside the United States.

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|artist=Prince Royce

|album=Prince Royce

|cover=Prince Royce - Stand By Me.jpg

|caption=

|released=January 19, 2010

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|genre=Bachata

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|label=Top Stop Music

|producer=Sergio George, Eduardo Aguilar

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Prince Royce recorded a bachata version of the song as his debut single, changing parts of the lyrics into Spanish. This version peaked number eight on US Hot Latin Tracks and number one on US Tropical Airplay. At the Latin Grammy Awards of 2010, Royce performed the song live along with Ben E. King.{{cite web|url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/prince-royce-all-set-to-touch-the-sky_100458795.html|title=Prince Royce All Set To Touch The Sky|website=Thaindian.com|date=November 12, 2010|access-date=September 26, 2016|archive-date=October 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016142454/http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/prince-royce-all-set-to-touch-the-sky_100458795.html|url-status=dead}} Royce's remake received a Lo Nuestro award for "Tropical Song of the Year".{{cite web|url=http://www.nochelatina.com/Articles/8684/Premio-Lo-Nuestro-2011-Winners-List|title=Premio Lo Nuestro 2011 Winners List|website=Nochelatina.com|date=February 18, 2011|access-date=September 26, 2016}}

Royce performed the song live again at a July 2016 Philips Arena concert in Atlanta, Georgia, alongside a male fan,{{cite news|first=Melissa|last=Ruggieri|date=July 26, 2016|title=Concert review: Pitbull and Prince Royce party in Atlanta|url=https://www.ajc.com/blog/music/concert-review-pitbull-and-prince-royce-party-atlanta/gG3XpL1AfguFjy2YY7N5RJ/|website=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=August 30, 2019}} at a 2017 Amway Center concert in Orlando, Florida,{{cite web|first=Monivette|last=Cordeiro|date=August 1, 2017|title=Bachata star Prince Royce seduces the Amway Center|url=https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2017/08/01/bachata-star-prince-royce-seduces-the-amway-center|website=Orlando Weekly|access-date=August 30, 2019|archive-date=August 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830011938/https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2017/08/01/bachata-star-prince-royce-seduces-the-amway-center|url-status=dead}} as the second song for the 2019 RodeoHouston concert,{{cite news|first=Joey|last=Guerra|date=February 28, 2019|url=https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/entertainment/music/article/Rain-and-romance-during-Prince-Royce-s-13647430.php|title=Rain, romance and Selena during Prince Royce's RodeoHouston debut|website=Beaumont Enterprise|access-date=August 30, 2019}} and at the third night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention.{{cite magazine |last1=Flores |first1=Griselda |title=Prince Royce Performs Unifying 'Stand By Me' at Democratic National Convention |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/9436739/prince-royce-stand-by-me-democratic-national-convention |magazine=Billboard |access-date=September 23, 2020 |date=August 19, 2020}} He also made a dance version for his debut album.

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Muhammad Ali (as Cassius Clay) released a version on his 1963 spoken-word/comedy album I Am the Greatest. Clay's recording was released as the B-side of the single in 1964,{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mUUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA4|title=Late Single Spotlights|date=March 7, 1964|magazine=Billboard|volume=76|number=10|page=4|access-date=May 11, 2017|quote=The flip is a legit reading of the Ben E. King hit from a while back.}} charting on the Billboard "Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles".{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7393559/muhammad-ali-the-grammy-nominated-billboard-charting-musician|title=Muhammad Ali the Grammy-Nominated, Billboard-Charting Musician|last=Stutz|first=Colin|date=June 4, 2016|magazine=Billboard|access-date=May 11, 2017}}

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Kenny Lynch's 1964 version stayed on the top 100 UK Singles Chart for seven weeks, peaking at number 39 on the week of May 7–13, 1964, its fourth week.{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19640507/7501/|title=Official Singles Chart Top 50: 07 May 1964 – 13 May 1964|website=Official Charts|access-date=August 30, 2019}} Spyder Turner's 1967 version climbed to number 3 on the US Billboard Black Singles chart, number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart,{{cite web|url=http://www.soulexpress.net/deep110.htm#spyderturner|title=Deep Online April 2010|website=Soulexpress.net|access-date=September 26, 2016}} and number 10 in Canada.{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.10039.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Singles - February 18, 1967}}

David and Jimmy Ruffin (credited as the Ruffin Brothers) remade the song for their only collaborative album I Am My Brother's Keeper (1970).{{cite book|editor-first=Deborah|editor-last=Andrews|year=1992|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l3hO28Q2cwsC&q=%22stand+by+me%22|title=The Annual Obituary 1991|publisher=St. James Press|location=Detroit|page=369|isbn=978-1558621756}} Released as a single,{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jCkEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22stand+by+me%22+david+jimmy+ruffins+-wikipedia+-imdb&pg=RA1-PA88|title=Spotlight Singles – Top 60 Pop Spotlight|magazine=Billboard|page=88|date=October 10, 1970}} the version stayed at its peak position number 61 on Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks on the weeks ending November 28 (its sixth week){{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1970-11-28|title=The Hot 100: The Week of November 28, 1970|magazine=Billboard|access-date=August 31, 2019}} and December 5, 1970 (seventh week).{{cite magazine|title=The Hot 100: The Week of December 5, 1970|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1970-12-05|magazine=Billboard|access-date=August 31, 2019}} It also peaked at number 24 on Billboard Soul Singles on the week ending November 21, 1970, its fourth week.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/r-b-hip-hop-songs/1970-11-21|title=Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs: The Week of November 21, 1970|magazine=Billboard|access-date=August 31, 2019}}

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Maurice White's 1985 cover from his album Maurice White reached No. 6 on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart and No. 11 on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary Songs chart. White's version also topped at No. 5 on the RPM Canadian Adult Contemporary Songs chart and No. 8 on the New Zealand Singles chart.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=5596&|title=RPM Adult Contemporary|issue=10|volume=43|date=November 16, 1985|publisher=RPM|website=bac-lac.gc.ca}}{{cite web|url=https://charts.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Maurice+White&titel=Stand+By+Me&cat=s|title=Maurice White: Stand By Me|publisher=RIANZ|website=charts.nz}}

U2 performed the song with Bruce Springsteen at the John F. Kennedy Stadium (Philadelphia) concert on September 25, 1987, during the Joshua Tree Tour.{{cite magazine|first=Andy|last=Greene|date=January 29, 2013|title=Flashback: Bruce Springsteen Surprises U2 Fans in 1987|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-bruce-springsteen-surprises-u2-fans-in-1987-72220/|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=August 31, 2019}}

Anita Mui recorded the Cantonese version for her 1987 Cantonese album Mung Leui Gung Tseui. In 1988, Mui's version was awarded as one of top ten gold songs by Hong Kong telecommunication stations RTHK{{cite web|url=http://rthk9.rthk.hk/classicschannel/goldsong11.htm|title=第十一屆 (1988)|trans-title=11th Annual (1988) RTHK Top Ten Gold Songs Awards|website=RTHK|language=zh|access-date=September 25, 2019|archive-date=May 31, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170531024158/http://rthk9.rthk.hk/classicschannel/goldsong11.htm|url-status=dead}} and by TVB.{{cite web|url=http://tvcity.tvb.com/jsg/awards/awards_4957565616481164106171108186113170247166177188250.html|title=1988年度十大勁歌金曲頒獎典禮 (十大勁歌金曲獎)|trans-title=1988 Jade Solid Gold Top Ten Songs Awards|language=zh|archive-date=June 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603092345/http://tvcity.tvb.com/jsg/awards/awards_4957565616481164106171108186113170247166177188250.html}} After Mui's death in 2003, Hong Kong singers and actors Miriam Yeung, Denise Ho, Alex To, Edmond Leung, band members of Grasshopper, Andy Hui, and William So performed Mui's version at Anita Mui. 10. Memory. Music. Gather. ({{lang|zh-hk|梅艷芳。10。思念。音樂。會}}), the December 30, 2013, tribute concert for Mui.{{cite news|title=乐坛百变天后梅艳芳逝世十年 圈中好友登台悼念|url=http://yule.sohu.com/20131231/n392700688.shtml|trans-title=Ten Years After Anita Mui's Death, Singers Gather at Tribute Concert for Mui|website=Sohu|date=December 31, 2013}}

In a 1995 music video entitled Disney's Timon & Pumbaa in "Stand by Me",{{cite encyclopedia|first=John|last=Grant|year=1998|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T7ozAQAAIAAJ&q=%22stand+by+me%22|title=Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters|publisher=Hyperion Books|page=150|isbn=978-0786863365}} Timon performs the song with slightly altered lyrics, while every time Timon sings the chorus, Pumbaa survives physical mishaps and ferocious creatures. A trio of frogs then finish the song at the end.{{cite web|first=Rob|last=Leane|date=April 28, 2017|title=Disney's Timon & Pumbaa: 15 WTF Moments From Their Forgotten Spin-Off Movie|url=https://screenrant.com/disney-timon-pumbaa-wtf-moments-around-the-world-spin-off-movie/|website=Screen Rant}}

A version of the song was released by American R&B group 4 the Cause as their debut single in 1998. It was a number-one hit in Switzerland, reached number two of the Austrian and German singles charts and number three in New Zealand, and was a top-ten hit in several other countries.{{cite web|last=Hung|first=Steffen|url=http://austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?interpret=4+The+Cause&titel=Stand+By+Me&cat=s|title=4 The Cause – Stand By Me|website=Austriancharts.at|access-date=September 26, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/title/4+THE+CAUSE/Stand+By+Me/single|title=Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts|website=Musicline.de|access-date=September 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329053907/http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/title/4+THE+CAUSE/Stand+By+Me/single|archive-date=March 29, 2018|url-status=dead }}

Tracy Chapman performed the song live in 2015 in the final season of Late Show with David Letterman at Letterman's request. The critical and popular response was very positive, with James Christopher Monger of AllMusic praising Chapman's "emotionally pitch-perfect, spotlight-stealing rendition" of the song. Monger further said:

With just her voice and an electric guitar, she managed to simultaneously bring the house down and build it back up again, which is no small feat, even for an artist who has proven herself time and again to be a powerful yet always benevolent force of nature.{{Cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/greatest-hits-mw0002889914 |last=Monger |first=James Christopher |title=Greatest Hits – Tracy Chapman |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=January 6, 2019}}

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Florence and the Machine recorded the song for the soundtrack and trailer of Final Fantasy XV in 2016.{{cite news|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-florence-and-the-machines-sweeping-stand-by-me-cover-20160331|title=Hear Florence and the Machine's Sweeping 'Stand By Me' Cover|last=Bilstein|first=Jon|date=March 31, 2016|newspaper=Rolling Stone|access-date=April 24, 2017}}{{cite press release|url=http://press.na.square-enix.com/releases/663/florence-the-machine-covers-classic-stand-by-me-for-final-fantasy-xv|title=Florence + The Machine Covers Classic "Stand By Me" for Final Fantasy XV|date=March 30, 2016|publisher=Square Enix|access-date=April 24, 2017|archive-date=September 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923013113/http://press.na.square-enix.com/releases/663/florence-the-machine-covers-classic-stand-by-me-for-final-fantasy-xv|url-status=dead}} The band released its EP Songs from Final Fantasy XV on August 12, containing the band's remake. The cover peaked at number fifteen on the Billboard Hot Rock Singles in December.{{cite magazine|title=Chart History: Florence + the Machine|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/302247/florence-machine/chart?f=902|date=2017|magazine=Billboard|access-date=April 24, 2017}}

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Skylar Grey recorded the song which appeared for a Budweiser commercial for Super Bowl LII, with proceeds for the song to go to the American Red Cross.{{cite web|last=Langone|first=Alix|title=Budweiser Just Released Its 2018 Super Bowl Commercial and It Has Nothing to Do With Beer|url=http://fortune.com/2018/01/26/budweiser-2018-super-bowl-commercial-video/|access-date=January 28, 2018}}{{cite magazine|last=Marzovilla|first=Julia|title=Skylar Grey Helps Highlight 'A Good Cause on a Large Scale' With New Budweiser Super Bowl Commercial|magazine=Billboard|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/super-bowl/8096489/skylar-grey-super-bowl-commercial-budweiser-stand-by-me|access-date=January 28, 2018}}

The Kingdom Choir performed the song at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on May 19, 2018.{{cite news|title=Gospel choir to perform 'Stand By Me' at royal wedding|url=https://www.premier.org.uk/News/UK/Gospel-choir-to-perform-Stand-By-Me-at-royal-wedding|website=Premier|agency=Press Association|date=May 19, 2018|access-date=August 29, 2019}} Their version debuted and peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot Gospel Songs chart on the week ending June 2, 2018.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/gospel-songs/2018-06-02|title=Hot Gospel Songs – The Week of June 2, 2018|magazine=Billboard|access-date=August 29, 2019}}{{cite news|first=Jim|last=Asker|date=September 6, 2018|title=Tori Kelly's 'Never Alone' Debuts on Gospel & Christian Charts|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8473838/tori-kelly-never-alone-kirk-franklin-gospel-christian-charts|magazine=Billboard|access-date=August 29, 2019}} It also entered the UK Singles Chart and peaked at number 94 on its first and only week, the week of May 25–31, 2018.{{cite web|title=Official Singles Chart Top 100: 25 May 2018 – 31 May 2018|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20180525/7501/|website=Official Charts|access-date=August 29, 2019}} It is included in their debut album, Stand by Me,{{cite news|first=Rob|last=Copsey|date=September 27, 2018|title=The Royal Wedding gospel choir, The Kingdom Choir, announce UK tour and debut album tracklisting|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-royal-wedding-gospel-choir-the-kingdom-choir-announce-uk-tour-and-debut-album-tracklisting__24196/|website=Official Charts|access-date=August 29, 2018}} released later that year.{{cite news|first=Michel|last=Martin|date=November 3, 2018|title=After Royal Wedding Spotlight, The Kingdom Choir Releases Debut Album|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/11/03/663933321/after-royal-wedding-spotlight-the-kingdom-choir-releases-debut-album|website=NPR|access-date=August 29, 2018}}

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On October 24, 2021, Snoop Dogg performed the song alongside the audience at a Big Night Live concert in Boston as a tribute to his mother Beverly Tate, who died at age 70 earlier on the same night.{{cite news |title=Snoop Dogg Pays Tribute to Late Mother Beverly Tate at Boston Concert |url=https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/10/25/snoop-dogg-mother-beverly-tate-death-boston-concert/ |work=WBZ-TV |date=October 25, 2021 |access-date=November 23, 2021 }}{{cite magazine |first=Starr |last=Bowenbank |date=October 27, 2021 |title=Snoop Dogg Honors Late Mother Beverly Tate with 'Stand by Me' Sing-Along |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/snoop-dogg-beverly-tate-stand-by-me-9651657/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=November 23, 2021 }}

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