#NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MiddayShow
Bill Withers:
Lovely Day
https://mijorem.bandcamp.com/track/bill-withers-lovely-day
https://open.spotify.com/track/0bRXwKfigvpKZUurwqAlEh
show playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/55kiq57r1ErxcYnr6B3P6g
KEXP playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg
#OnThisDay in 2015, 30th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band; #GreenDay; Joan Jett and the Blackhearts; Lou Reed; #StevieRayVaughan and Double Trouble; #BillWithers; The "5" Royals; and #RingoStarr.
"Lovely Day" is a song by American #soul and #RAndB singer #BillWithers. Written by Withers and #SkipScarborough, it was released on December 21, 1977, and appears on Withers's sixth album, #Menagerie (1977). Withers holds a sustained 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 No. 402 on #RollingStone's "Top 500 Best Songs of All Time" in 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E0L7kzW0sk
Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 24
Ain’t No Sunshine
Remembering Bill Withers!
“Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
Only darkness every day
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
And this house just ain’t no home”
#OnThisDay in 2020, #BillWithers, American singer-songwriter and rhythm & #bluesmusician ("Ain't No Sunshine"; "Lean on Me"; "Just The Two Of Us"), died of heart complications at 81.
#RIP
#OnThisDay in 1972, 14th Grammy Awards: #CaroleKing's "It's Too Late"; #BillWithers' "Ain't No Sunshine"; Carly Simon; #IsaacHayes; #MuddyWaters; and Bill Evans win.
#NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Bill Withers:
Who Is He (And What Is He To You)
https://eighthertz.bandcamp.com/track/bill-withers-who-is-he-8hz-remix
#NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Bill Withers:
Who Is He (And What Is He To You)
https://djvanderbeat.bandcamp.com/track/bill-withers-who-is-he-ext-edit
"Just the Two of Us" is a 1980 song written by #BillWithers, William Salter, and #RalphMacDonald, and recorded by #GroverWashingtonJr with Withers on vocals. #ElektraRecords released it in Washington's 1980 album #Winelight and as a February 1981 single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw5OLnN7UvM