. . "Cliff Richard songs" . "Trini Lopez songs" . "Billy Joe Royal songs" . "5714dedd25ac0d8aee4c6467" . . . "false"^^ . "102.0"^^ . "Jay and the Americans songs" . "Led Zeppelin songs" . "false"^^ . "Neil Diamond songs" . . "Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller" . "1cc3d3c2-4d63-4a70-bde4-a69ae6751af9" . "Tom Jones (singer) songs" . "Aretha Franklin songs" . "Number-one singles in Germany" . "1971 singles" . "Songs about New York" . "Spanish Harlem" . . "Songs written by Phil Spector" . "220884"^^ . "Ben E. King songs" . "1960 songs" . "Andy Williams songs" . "-7.8"^^ . "54"^^ . . "-0.0824064"^^ . "3094" . . "USUG11400940" . "13179167" . "english" . "Phil Spector" . . . "2"^^ . "2008-12-01"^^ . "Number-one singles in Austria" . "Chet Atkins songs" . "The Mamas & the Papas songs" . "Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller" . "Atco Records singles" . "Spanish Harlem" . "Atco Records" . "eng" . "Bowling for Soup songs" . "false"^^ . "%22Spanish Harlem%22 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 %22fill%22 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. %22Since 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.%22The 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: the record was flipped and it was the other side, %22First Taste of Love%22, 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." . "-0.32124"^^ . . "1961 singles" . "Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one singles" . "120000.0"^^ .