Various – Stand By Me (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Vinyl, LP, Compilation

Thirty years ago, director Rob Reiner chose the picturesque town of Brownsville, Oregon as the filming location for his classic coming-of-age story, Stand By Me. The film, whose plot is based on Stephen King’s novella The Body and title is derived from the Ben E. King's eponymous song, which plays over the opening and ending credits, tells the story of four boys in small town Oregon who go on a hike across the countryside over Labour Day weekend in 1959 to find the dead body of a missing child.

The classic original soundtrack is crammed with early rock & roll hits (“Yakety Yak”, “Lollipop” & “Great Balls of Fire” etc.) and still sounds very alive today, decades after they were originally recorded.