Bill Withers – “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone”, “Lean On Me” and “Just The Two Of Us”

The song “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone” suddenly popped into my mind while I was doing the weather report for a newsletter I edit (all the places are sunny this week, after a few mixed weeks) so I looked it up, and found Bill Withers sang it in 1971.

The name didn’t really mean much to me, but then I found he wrote a few other songs that have since become classics and been covered many times.

Here is “Ain’t No Sunshine When You’re Gone”:

You may have heard numerous versions of “Lean On Me” by various artists, here’s the original, sung live on a BBC show from 1973:

And you’ll definitely have heard this one somewhere, “Just The Two Of Us”:

Quiet, gentle songs, but music that you remember.

Paul

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