Music: Stand By Me

My family and I used to eat at this little pizza joint back when I was a kid. Like so many things from childhood, it's not there anymore. What I remember most from that place was a jukebox that sat in the back, loaded with both oldies and some newer songs. The song I liked to queue up when we went there? "Stand By Me," by Ben E. King:



Ben E. King (you might know him as one of the lead singers of "The Drifters") is an old man now, and I've never met him. But the fact that this 60s ballad was one of my favorite songs on that jukebox says a whole lot about how universal music can be.