Stand By Me - Johnny Rivers - L I V E !! @ The Ventura County Blues Festival - musicUcansee.com

Stand By Me - Johnny Rivers - LIVE !! @ The 13th Annual Ventura County Blues Festival. On Stage: Johnny Rivers - guitar/vocals
Skip Edwards - keys
Gerald Davis - bgv
Norm Sancho - bass/bgv
Michael Rivers - drums
Cameras: Richard 'Yogi' Heintz, Kimberly Kagy & Casey Reagan
Edit: CJ Reagan for musicUcansee.com
Live Sound & Post Audio:: Dave Grover for Mystic Mountain Sound
The Wiki:"Stand by Me" is a song, originally performed by American singer-songwriter Ben E. King, and written by King, Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller. According to King, the title is derived from, and was inspired by, a spiritual written by Sam Cooke and J. W. Alexander called "Stand by Me Father," recorded by the Soul Stirrers with Johnnie Taylor singing lead. The third line of the second verse of the former work derives from Psalm 46:2c/3c.[2]

There have been over 400 recorded versions of the song, performed by many artists. It was featured on the soundtrack of the 1986 film Stand by Me, and a corresponding music video was released to promote the film. In 2012 it was estimated that the song's royalties had topped $US 22.8 million (£17 million), making it the sixth highest-earning song as of that time. 50% of the royalties were paid to King.[3] In 2015 King's original version was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress, as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant",[4] just under five weeks before his death. Later in the year, the 2015 line up of the Drifters recorded it, in tribute to him.