<Table> <Tr> <Td> "How Often" (1960) </Td> <Td> "Spanish Harlem" (1960) </Td> <Td> "Stand By Me" (1961) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "How Often" (1960) </Td> <Td> "Spanish Harlem" (1960) </Td> <Td> "Stand By Me" (1961) </Td> </Tr> <P> "Spanish Harlem" 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 "fill" 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 . "Since 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 ." </P> <P> It was originally released as the B - side to "First Taste of Love". The 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: instead, the original A-side, "First Taste of Love", 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 . </P>

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