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...many times as he needs to. Last week Bill Clinton emerged from his self-imposed post-pardon-scandal exile. When he opened his new office on 125th Street in Harlem, with its $350,000 annual rent (his first choice, Carnegie Towers in midtown, would have cost taxpayers $800,000), it was full-frontal Clinton--winking, mugging at the most mundane remarks, pointing excitedly into the crowd as if he had just spotted a long-lost friend or a donor. Except for Senator Chuck Schumer, stage center, trying to boogie with the homeboys, it was picture perfect, a routine ribbon cutting...
...days ago, Bill Clinton opened up shop in Harlem, and gave a speech so buoyant and well-received it seemed like the first salvo in a grass-roots campaign to repeal the 22nd Amendment. When the once-and-perhaps-future President finished speaking, he locked arms with Chuck Schumer and Charlie Rangel and sang along to the tune that might have been his theme song for a turbulent quarter-century in politics: "Stand By Me." The song was a metaphor for racial harmony in more ways than Clinton knew; for it was written and recorded, in about a half-hour...
...Stand By Me" could represent the growth, modifications and moderation that took place at Atlantic Records, and in popular music, from the beginning to the end of the ?50s. The song - along with another all-timer, "Spanish Harlem" - was recorded in King?s first solo session after leaving The Drifters, a group that had been at Atlantic, with many personnel permutations, from its inception as a support staff for singer Clyde McPhatter in 1953. Since 1958, when the remnants of the original quintet were replaced by King?s group, the Five Crowns, their songs had been produced by Leiber...
...Stand By Me," and even less the ethereal urban love song "Spanish Harlem," couldn?t be designated as R&B, or blues, or rock. But pop was mutating faster than a B-movie monster. Leiber and Stoller were orchestrating those changes; King and the Drifters and a dozen other soloists and groups were giving them voice. The godfather of this strange, beautiful new creature was Atlantic?s co-founder, Ahmet Ertegun. And his adopted family was a handsome one indeed. In the late ?50s he had the top of the pops: ballad group (The Drifters) and comic group (The Coasters...
...rich that it kept generating them. Dion covered two Drifters songs, "Ruby Baby" from ?956 and "Drip Drop" from ?958. At least five L&S oldies became later Top "0 hits: "I (Who have Nothing)" (Tom Jones), "I?m a Woman" (Maria Muldaur), "On Broadway" (George Benson), "Spanish Harlem" (Aretha Franklin) and "There Goes My Baby" (Donna Summer). In the curio category are a rendition of "Stand by Me" by one Cassius Clay in 1964 and Bruce Willis? 1987 cover of "Young Blood." In 1986, with a hit movie as impetus, King?s original of "Stand by Me" returned...