Tracy Chapman’s Cover of ‘Stand By Me’ Is Hauntingly Beautiful

Legendary singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman covered ‘Stand by Me’ during an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman and it became an instant classic. I love her spartan and haunting vocals to this classic song!

It’s even more poignant, when I realized that the original singer of the song, the Drifters’ Ben E. King, passed away just two weeks after her performance.

This song is available on Chapman’s Greatest Hits album.

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