Stand by Me was written and recorded back in 1960 after the writer of the song, Ben E. King, couldn’t get The Drifters interested in the song. So King recorded it himself. Stand by Me went on to become one of the most popular and most often covered pop songs of all time. King wrote
“In My Life” was written mainly by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney, the major song-writing duo of the Beatles. Later news reports showed that John Lennon wrote most of the song, and it is clearly “Lennon-ish”, but Paul McCartney and Lennon later disagreed over how much each of the two band members contributed to
Here’s a great version of “Kansas City” the popular 12 bar blues made popular in the 1960’s. Like so many hit songs of the era it was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. In fact it was their first major hit. Here’s an excerpt from Wikipedia: “Kansas City” was written by Jerry Leiber and
