FREDDIE / BEN E. / B. B.
musicians named King
- Fred King: blues, R&B, and rock singer and guitarist who played for a while with saxophonist
King Curtis and who was once "up all night" playing poker with Grand Funk Railroad
- Benjamin Earl King: R&B singer-songwriter, formerly of the Drifters, most of whose repertoire
was cocomposed by the prolific songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
- Riley B. "B.B." King: blues singer-songwriter who plays lead because his hands are too big to
form the chords and who sits to play because note bending is easier higher on the fretboard.
- Carol Klein: composer who made her living writing songs with lyricist and part-time husband
Gerry Goffin for a dozen years before becoming a performing pop artist known as Carole King.