Today’s Artist
Robert Johnson 1911 - 1938
You may bury my body down by the highway side...
Robert Johnson
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Robert Johnson reputedly sold his soul at a Mississippi crossroads to play guitar. He recorded only 29 songs in his short life.     ○○○
Today’s Record
Stand By Me 1975

"Let's get retarded in here, let's get retarded in here."

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Ben E. King had already left the Drifters. The producer had time left on the clock. King pulled out a song he'd been carrying around, built on a bassline borrowed from a hymn his grandmother used to sing. was almost not recorded. I won't be afraid. The string arrangement was added later.

Covered over four hundred times. The spare version is still the one.

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