Stand by Me

Originally written and recorded by Ben E. King in 1961 with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, this song has been covered over 400 times by various artists including Otis Redding's 1964 version. King's original was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2015 as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," and its royalties were estimated to have topped $22.8 million by 2012.