Save the Last Dance for Me (album) explained

Save the Last Dance for Me
Type:studio
Artist:Ben E. King
Cover:Save the Last Dance for Me (Ben E. King album - cover art).jpg
Released:1987
Genre:Soul
Label:EMI-Manhattan
Producer:John Paul Jones, Lamont Dozier, Mick Jones, Preston Glass, Alan Glass
Prev Title:Street Tough
Prev Year:1981
Next Year:1987

Save the Last Dance for Me was 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 on an LP. Subsequent studio releases were issued on CD as the format became more popular.

Track listing

Tracks marked (*) are re-recordings of a Drifters hit which originally featured King on lead vocals. Other tracks are re-recordings of Drifters hits which did not originally feature King.

  1. "Save The Last Dance For Me"
  2. "Because Of Last Night"
  3. "Lover's Question"
  4. "Whatever This Is (It Ain't True Love)"
  5. "Halfway To Paradise"
  6. "Let A Man Do It For Ya"
  7. "I Cry For You"
  8. "Test Of Time"
  9. "Two Lovers"