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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.

Ben E. King

I never even visualized for a second doing what I’m doing.
BEN E. KING

Doing Second Visualized
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
There was no, there was no in between. And when I got to New York all the other musics that’s in the world just came into my head whether it was the classics, jazz, I never knew what jazz was about all, had heard anything about jazz.
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Between Country Music Other
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
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
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
It doesn’t take me long to write songs.
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Long Song Writing
Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.
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Kids Kings Song
I’m a songwriter. So I’m OK. But when I wrote “Stand By Me” as a song and to know that the song will probably be here for hundred and hundreds of years to come, it’s great, you know. And it was just simple lyrics.
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Simple Song Years
The industry now wants to be in charge of everything.
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Change Everything Industry Want
I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great.
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Creating Song Writing
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
In New York, I was excited about the music in New York because the only music that I was more or less involved with in the South was either country and western or hillbilly music as we used to call it when I was a kid and, ah, gospel.
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County Excited Involve Kids Less
I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.
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Chose Felt Music
It’s a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you’re marketing yourself for that direction.
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Different Marketing Records

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