Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)

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"Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)"
Lean on Me Rex Box cover.png
Single by Red Box
from the album The Circle & the Square
B-side "Stinging Bee"
Released1985
Length4:32, 6:42
Label Sire
Songwriter(s) Simon Toulson-Clarke
Producer(s) David Motion
Red Box singles chronology
"Saskatchewan"
(1984)		"Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)"
(1985)		"For America"
(1986)

"Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)" is a song by British group Red Box, released in 1985 as the third single from the debut album, The Circle & the Square . It is the band's highest-charting single in the United Kingdom, reaching No. 3 in October 1985. The song borrows from North American Indian rhythms. [1]

Contents

Track listings

7-inch single

No.TitleLength
1."Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)"4:15
2."Stinging Bee"4:36

12-inch single

No.TitleLength
1."Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)" (Dogmatix)6:42
2."Stinging Bee" (Catmatix)4:38
3."Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)"4:32

Charts

References

  1. ↑ Cameron, Samuel. Music in the Marketplace: A social economics approach. Routledge. ISBN   9781317934738.
  2. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 247. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  3. ↑ "European Hot 100 Singles". Eurotipsheet . Vol. 2, no. 46. 18 November 1985. p. 13.
  4. ↑ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Lean on Me". Irish Singles Chart.
  5. ↑ "Red Box: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
  6. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Red Box – Lean on Me" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts.
  7. ↑ "Top 100 Singles". Music Week . 18 January 1986. p. 10.
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