Continued Explorations: Music and the Fictive Dream "Stand By Me"
For this blog, I chose to write about the song Stand By Me , which inspired the title for the movie Stand By Me . It is pretty similar to my last blog, but it was such a great example of a pairing of song and film that I couldn't pass it up. This song, and the movie that it is used in, are both really popular in my family. I enjoy both the song, and the movie, but after experiencing them together, I can't think of one without thinking of the other. The song completely sums up everything the movie is, and, to me, has become a fundamental part of the film. Biographical Information: This song was written over 20 years before the film Stand By Me was produced. It was not intended to be in a movie, or to match a movie's theme so well. This song was written by Ben King, Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller in 1961 ( Stand by Me (Ben E. King song) ). According to an interview with Leiber and Stoller, King had written the first few lines to his iconic song, but wasn't really a son