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Save the Last Dance for Me (album)

album by Ben E. King

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ7428113 ↗
Source-derived summary

Save the Last Dance for Me is Ben E. King's 15th album and 14th studio album. It was released under the EMI-Manhattan label. The album was released in 1987 and was King's first release in six years. All the tracks are new recordings of hits by King's old group The Drifters, originally recorded between 1959 and 1964. Note that King did not originally sing lead on all the Drifters versions of these songs, having left the Drifters in 1960.

This was King's last new release as an LP. Subsequent studio releases were issued on Compact disc as the format became more popular.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Save the Last Dance for Me (album)” as album by Ben E. King. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987, 1959, 1964, 1960—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987. The account is most persuasive where Save, Last and Dance can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as album by Ben E. King. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7428113. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987, 1959, 1964 and 1960.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Save the Last Dance for Me (album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.