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Ben E. King

When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.
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Crowns Fun Records
One of the hardest things in the world is to perform on record and get someone to enjoy and feel what you’re doing. It’s unlike, like TV you can, you can fake it with the face and the crying and the bits. Recording is completely different.
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Different Fake Record
It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.
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Particular People Time Of My Life
Many times I’ve gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there.
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Gone People Talking
I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.
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Chose Felt Music
I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn’t pursue it. I feel like I’m cheating sometimes.
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Career Cheating Thinking
I never even visualized for a second doing what I’m doing.
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Doing Second Visualized
The industry now wants to be in charge of everything.
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Change Everything Industry Want
I don’t care what studio I’m in, I don’t care what producers is producing it and I don’t care what song it is because they taught me those things I feel so protected wherever I go as far as music.
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Care Song Taught
If there’s anything about the business that I love and that I’m extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here.
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Careers Extremely Happy Mets
I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
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Clothes Keys Legends
A singer has got a different attitude, they’re they’re so whacked out they don’t know what they’re doing half the time. Singers, they don’t, they’re spoiled too.
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Attitude Half Singer
The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who’s very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he’s ever done has always been charted.
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Done Guy Nice
I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.
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Comedians Comedy Time Work
I think that the song, the song “Stand By Me” is one of those songs that… and someone asked me, what was you thinking about or what was you feeling about?
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Artist Song Writing
You take a chance to do something and you realize in your heart it’s either going to be the greatest thing that ever happened or the worst thing that ever happened. It won’t be an in between, I almost made a hit. It will be an instant flop or an instant success.
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Chance Heart Realizing

Yeah. I’ve been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

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Yeah. I’ve been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

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