William Harrison Withers Jr. was an American singer and songwriter. He had several hits over a career spanning 18 years,including "Ain't No Sunshine" (1971),"Grandma's Hands" (1971),"Use Me" (1972),"Lean on Me" (1972),"Lovely Day" (1977) and "Just the Two of Us" (1980). Withers won three Grammy Awards and was nominated for six more.
Grover Washington Jr. was an American jazz-funk and soul-jazz saxophonist and Grammy Award winner. Along with Wes Montgomery and George Benson,he is considered by many to be one of the founders of the smooth jazz genre. He wrote some of his material and later became an arranger and producer.
"Ain't No Sunshine" is a song by Bill Withers from his 1971 album Just As I Am, produced by Booker T. Jones. The record featured musicians Donald "Duck" Dunn on bass guitar,Al Jackson Jr. on drums and Stephen Stills on guitar. String arrangements were done by Booker T. Jones. The song was recorded in Los Angeles,with overdubs in Memphis by engineer Terry Manning.
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is a song by American rock band Green Day. The power ballad is the fourth track from their seventh studio album American Idiot (2004). Reprise Records released "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" as the second single from American Idiot on November 29,2004. The song's lyrics were written by lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong,and the music was composed by the band. Production was handled by Rob Cavallo and Green Day.
"Somebody Told Me" is a song by American rock band the Killers. It was released as the second official single from the group's debut studio album Hot Fuss (2004),and was written by band members Brandon Flowers,Mark Stoermer,Dave Keuning and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. In an interview with Rolling Stone,Brandon Flowers said:"This is the story of trying to meet someone in a club." It is written in the key of B-flat minor.
"Clocks" is a song by British rock band Coldplay. It was written and composed as a collaboration among all the members of the band for their second album,A Rush of Blood to the Head. The song is built around a piano riff,and features cryptic lyrics concerning themes of contrast and urgency. Several remixes of the track exist,and its riff has been widely sampled.
"Lean on Me" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Bill Withers. It was released in April 1972 as the first single from his second album,Still Bill. It was a number one single on both the soul and Billboard Hot 100 charts,the latter chart for three weeks in July 1972. Billboard ranked it as the No. 7 song of 1972. It was ranked number 208 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2010. Numerous other versions have been recorded,and it is one of only nine songs to have reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with versions recorded by two different artists. In 2007,the 1972 recording of the song by Bill Withers on Sussex Records was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
"Celebration" is a 1980 song by American band Kool &the Gang. Released as the first single from their twelfth album,Celebrate! (1980),it was the band's first and only single to reach No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
"Sunny" is a soul jazz standard written by Bobby Hebb in 1963. It is one of the most performed and recorded popular songs,with hundreds of versions released and its chord progression influencing later songs. BMI rates "Sunny" No. 25 in its "Top 100 songs of the century".
"Just the Two of Us" is a song by American rapper Will Smith. It was released as the fourth single from his debut solo studio album,Big Willie Style (1997),on July 20,1998. The song was inspired by Bill Withers' and Grover Washington,Jr.'s love song of the same title;Smith's version samples and incorporates lyrics from the original. Instead of love between a couple,"Just the Two of Us" focuses on the relationship between a father and son. The song features Fuzzy and Sauce from the R&B group Somethin' for the People with Fuzzy providing the chorus and ad-libs,while Sauce is a credited as a producer on the track.
Winelight is a 1980 studio album by jazz musician Grover Washington Jr. The record received the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance in 1982. The album was released by Elektra Records. It includes the Grammy Award-winning hit "Just the Two of Us" sung by Bill Withers. The track "In the Name of Love" from the album was also released in rearranged form,without Washington's saxophone track,under the name of Ralph MacDonald and Bill Withers.
"She's Always a Woman" is a song by Billy Joel from his 1977 album,The Stranger. The single peaked at No. 17 in the U.S. in Oct. 1978,and at No. 53 in the UK in 1986,when it was released as a double A-side with "Just the Way You Are". Josh Groban sings it on his Bridges album. It re-entered the UK chart in 2010,reaching No. 29.
"Use Me" is a song,composed and originally recorded by Bill Withers. It was included on his 1972 album Still Bill and was released as a single. An eight-minute live version opens the 1973 album "Live at Carnegie Hall."
"Right on the Money" is a song written by Phil Vassar and Charlie Black,and recorded by American country music singer Alan Jackson. It was released in October 1998 as the second single from his CD High Mileage. The song became Jackson's sixteenth number-one single on the Hot Country Singles &Tracks chart.
"Lovely Day" is a song by American soul and R&B singer Bill Withers. Written by Withers and Skip Scarborough,it was released on December 21,1977,and appears on Withers's 1977 album Menagerie. Withers holds a sustained note towards the end which,at 18 seconds long,is one of the longest ever recorded on an American pop song. The song was listed at No. 402 on Rolling Stone's "Top 500 Best Songs of All Time" in 2021.
Sunshine Moonlight is the eighth studio album of Japanese singer Toshinobu Kubota,released on September 5,1995. The album credited under the name,Toshi Kubota. This was also Kubota's first English-language album. The album's musical style ranges from 1980s–90s R&B and pop to funk elements such go-go. Synth instrumentation was not employed in recording most of the song as the album contains live instrumentation.
Menagerie is the sixth studio album by American R&B singer Bill Withers,released on October 29,1977 through the Columbia label.
"I'm Not the One" is a song by the American rock band the Cars,from their fourth album,Shake It Up. It features Ric Ocasek on lead vocals,Benjamin Orr singing the 'you know why' phrase,and the whole group repeating "going round and round" as backing vocals throughout the song.
"Clarity" is a song by Russian-German DJ Zedd featuring the vocals of British singer Foxes. It was released on 14 November 2012 as the third single from the former's debut studio album of the same name. The song was written by Anton Zaslavski,Matthew Koma,Porter Robinson and Skylar Grey and produced by Zedd. It was released as iTunes Single of the Week on 2 October 2012,and as an 4-track remix EP on 12 February 2013,by Interscope Records. Zedd released an extended mix of the song exclusively on Beatport on 18 February 2018.
The discography of American singer-songwriter and musician Bill Withers (1938–2020). It consists of eight studio albums,one live album,10 compilation albums and 34 singles.
