#bill withers

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Debbie Sledge of Sister Sledge drawing Bill Withers as he sleeps on a plane ride to Zaire, Africa (1974). 🌍

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Use Me - Bill Withers🎶

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Do you like this song? #686

Yes I like it, I already know it

Yes I like it, first time listening

No I don't like it, I already know it

No I don't like it, first time listening

Voting ended onAug 11, 2025

Bill Withers - Lovely Day 1977

"Lovely Day" is a song by American soul and R&B singer Bill Withers. Written by Withers and Skip Scarborough, it appears on Withers's sixth album, Menagerie (1977). Withers holds a sustained high E note towards the end which, at 18 seconds, is one of the longest ever recorded on an American pop song. The song was listed at number 402 on Rolling Stone's "Top 500 Best Songs of All Time" in 2021. Released as a single in late 1977, "Lovely Day" peaked at number 6 on the US Billboard R&B chart, number 30 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1978, and at number seven on the UK Singles Chart. "Lovely Day" has been re-released as a single in the UK at least twice since the song's first chart run; in 1987 the original version charted again at number 92 on the UK Singles Chart, while a remix done by Ben Liebrand, named the "Sunshine Mix", peaked at number four. This remix resulted in renewed enthusiasm for the Withers original, which incurred a surge in airplay into the early 1990s and came to firmly overshadow the radio presence of Liebrand's version.

"Lovely Day" has been covered and sampled numerous times since Withers' original recording. A version by American R&B and dance music group The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M. featuring Michelle Visage was included on the soundtrack to the 1992 film The Bodyguard, starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner. It reached number 34 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 44 on the Billboard R&B chart, in addition to spending three weeks atop the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in December 1992 and January 1993. The song also reached number 17 on the UK Singles Chart and number two on the European Dance Radio Chart.

"Lovely Day" received a total of 83,3% yes votes! Previous Bill Withers polls: #536 "Lean on Me".

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Bill Withers *July 4, 1938

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Billy does bossa like a boss.

Just the two of us

Bill withers

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“Jazz gives you back your mind. Okay? And reggae gives you back your body. But the blues... blues will give you back your soul. I'm working off of that, you know?” - Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band - Time (written by Bill Withers)

Variety: Taj Mahal on Resurrecting a Lost Bill Withers Song as Title Track of New Album, 'Time’

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