What's Important to Me

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What's Important to Me
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Studio album by
Ben E. King
Released1991
Genre Soul
Length37:57
Label Ichiban Records
Producer Ben E. King, John E. Abbey, Buzz Amato
Ben E. King chronology
Stand by Me: The Ultimate Collection
(1987)
What's Important to Me
(1991)
Anthology
(1993)

What's Important to Me was released in 1991 and is the 17th album released by Ben E. King. King's first studio album in four years produced the singles "What's Important to Me" and "You've Got All of Me".

Ben E. King American musician

Benjamin Earl King was an American soul and R&B singer and record producer. He is best known as the singer and co-composer of "Stand by Me"—a US Top 10 hit, both in 1961 and later in 1986, a number one hit in the UK in 1987, and no. 25 on the RIAA's list of Songs of the Century—and as one of the principal lead singers of the R&B vocal group the Drifters notably singing the lead vocals of one of their biggest global hit singles "Save the Last Dance for Me".

Track listing

All tracks composed by Ben E. King, except where indicated.

  1. "It's Your Love (That Makes Me Happy)" (King, William Bush, Rita Saunders) – 4:51
  2. "You've Got All of Me" – 2:06
  3. "Major Malfunction" (King, William Bush, Rita Saunders) – 4:47
  4. "You Still Move Me" (Dan Seals) – 5:03
  5. "She's Gone Again" – 4:11
  6. "So Important to Me" (King, Rita Saunders) – 4:32
  7. "You Can Count on Me" (William Stuckley) – 4:16
  8. "It's All Right" (Curtis Mayfield) – 4:12
  9. "I'm Gonna Be Somebody" – 3:59

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