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    Spanish Harlem (album)

    studio album by Ben E. King

    Spanish Harlem is the debut album by Ben E. King, released by Atco Records as an LP in The title track and "Amor" were released as singles. The latter was released as "Amor Amor" on London. Stan Applebaum was the arranger.

    The title track peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot [4] The album peaked at No. 30 on the UK Albums chart.[5]

    Track listing

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    1. "Amor" (Gabriel Ruíz, Sunny Skylar, Ricardo López Méndez) - []
    2. "Sway" (Norman Gimbel, Gabriel Ruíz) - []
    3. "Come Closer to Me" (Al Stewart, Osvaldo Farrés) - []
    4. "Perfidia" (Alberto Dominguez, Milton Leeds) - []
    5. "Granada" (Agustín Lara, Dorothy Dodd) - []
    6. "Sweet and Gentle" (George Thorn, Otilio del Portal, Martin Ledyard) - []
    7. "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" (Joe Davis, Osvaldo Farrés) - []
    8. "Frenesí" (Alberto Dominguez, Leonard Whitcup) - []
    9. "Souvenir of Mexico" (Mort Shuman, Doc Pomus) - []
    10. "Bésame Mucho" (Sunny Skylar, Consuelo Velázquez)
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      Spanish Harlem (song)

      song by Ben E. King

      For the New York neighbourhood Spanish Harlem, see East Harlem.

      "Spanish Harlem" is a song recorded by Ben E. King in for Atco Records. It was written by Jerry Leiber and Phil Spector and produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. "Spanish Harlem" was King's first hit away from The Drifters, peaking at number 15 on Billboard's rhythm and blues and number 10 in pop music chart.[1]

      The song has been covered by a number of artists including Aretha Franklin, whose version reached number two on Billboard's pop chart. The song was ranked number on Rolling Stone's list of the " Greatest Songs of All Time".[2]

      Background

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      Leiber credited Stoller with the arrangement in a interview;[3] similarly, Leiber said in a radio interview with Leiber and Stoller on the Bob Edwards Weekend talk show that Stoller had written the key instrumental introduction to the record, although he was not cr

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      Tracks: 1) Amor; 2) Sway; 3) Come Closer To Me; 4) Perfidia; 5) Granada; 6) Sweet And Gentle; 7) Quizas, Quizas, Quizas (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps); 8) Frenesi; 9) Souvenir Of Mexico; 10) Besame Mucho; 11) Love Me, Love Me; 12) Spanish Harlem.

      REVIEW

      Benjamin Earl Nelson’s earliest wave of fame was raised by his hit singles with The Drifters — not The Drifters of the Clyde McPhatter and the David Baughan years, but a completely new version of The Drifters which used to be The fem Crowns, a New York-based doo-wop group working on the same circuit. That new version, musically supervised by guardian angels Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, had become a veritable monster hit-making machine, with songs such as ‘There Goes My Baby’ and ‘Save The Last Dance For Me’ reaching the kind of mainstream popularity that the original Drifters could never even dream of. However, in the end the new Drifters, directed bygd the same ironic hand of Fate, suffered the same