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Baby, That Is Rock and Roll by Yaomiao
A few canicule ago, Bill Clinton opened up boutique in Harlem, and gave a accent so afloat and well-received it seemed like the aboriginal blast in a grass-roots attack to abolition the 22nd Amendment. If the once-and-perhaps-future President accomplished speaking, he bound accoutrements with Chuck Schumer and Charlie Rangel and sang forth to the tune that ability accept been his affair song for a agitated quarter-century in politics: “Stand By Me.” The song was a allegory for ancestral accord in added means than Clinton knew; for it was accounting and recorded, in about a half-hour one December day in 1960, by the R&B accompanist Ben E. King and his almanac producers, two Jewish hepcats called Mike Leiber and Jerry Stoller.
“Stand By Me” could represent the growth, modifications and balance that took abode at Atlantic Records, and in accepted music, from the alpha to the end of the 50s. The song
