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An Entity of Type : wsb:Classic_Song, within Data Space : wasabi.inria.fr associated with source document(s)

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  • Spanish Harlem
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  • eng
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  • 1961 singles
  • 1971 singles
  • 1960 songs
  • Number-one singles in Austria
  • Number-one singles in Germany
  • Andy Williams songs
  • Aretha Franklin songs
  • Atco Records singles
  • Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one singles
  • Billy Joe Royal songs
  • Cliff Richard songs
  • Tom Jones (singer) songs
  • Neil Diamond songs
  • Jay and the Americans songs
  • Chet Atkins songs
  • Trini Lopez songs
  • Led Zeppelin songs
  • Songs about New York
  • Ben E. King songs
  • Bowling for Soup songs
  • Songs written by Phil Spector
  • The Mamas & the Papas songs
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  • %22Spanish Harlem%22 is a song released by Ben E. King in 1960 on Atco Records, written by Jerry Leiber and Phil Spector, and produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. During a 1968 interview, Leiber credited Stoller with the arrangement; similarly, in a 2009 radio interview with Leiber and Stoller on the Bob Edwards Weekend talk show, Jerry Leiber said that Stoller, while uncredited, had written the key instrumental introduction to the record. In the team's autobiography from the same year, Hound Dog, Stoller himself remarks that he had created this %22fill%22 while doing a piano accompaniment when the song was presented to Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler at Atlantic Records, with Spector playing guitar and Leiber doing the vocal. %22Since then, I've never heard the song played without that musical figure. I presumed my contribution was seminal to the composition, but I also knew that Phil didn't want to share credit with anyone but Jerry, so I kept quiet.%22The song was King's first hit away from The Drifters, a group he had led for several years. With an arrangement by Stan Applebaum featuring Spanish guitar, marimba, drum-beats, soprano saxophone, strings, and a male chorus, it climbed the Billboard charts, eventually peaking at #15 R&B and #10 Pop. It was ranked #358 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. King's version was not a hit in the UK: the record was flipped and it was the other side, %22First Taste of Love%22, that was played on Radio Luxembourg, charting at #27. In 1987, after Stand By Me made #1, the song was re-released and charted at #92.
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  • Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
  • Phil Spector
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  • 5714dedd25ac0d8aee4c635e
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  • USSM10022858
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  • Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
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  • 3094
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  • 1014144
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  • english
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  • Atco Records
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  • Spanish Harlem
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