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“We all need somebody to lean on”
Friday, Apr 3, 2020 - Posted by Rich Miller * RIP…
* Not that you’d want to, but you couldn’t get away from this song when it was released. And it seems to me to be a perfect anthem for these trying times… Lean on me, when you’re not strong
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- Intheknow - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 9:51 am:
Love me some Bill Withers. Still holds the record in the US for longest note held on a top 40 song on “Lovely Day”.
- Socially DIstant Watcher - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 9:58 am:
If you decide to redesign the website, I hope you can include a like button. There are time it would not be appropriate, but here it surely would be.
- Proud Papa Bear - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 10:05 am:
After Lou Rawls, my all-time favorite singer.
My friend got me a greatest hits cd about 20 years ago. I listened to it nonstop for about three months.
The guy could sing an instruction manual and make it sound beautiful.
- DownSouth - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 10:05 am:
“Lean on Me” became the theme song for the wounded warrior hunting and fishing events we put on - and agree a most apropos song for the times right now.
The losses to us as a society as a whole just keep coming. Deep sigh.
- Joe Bidenopolous - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 10:05 am:
Ain’t no sunshine today, man.
RIP Bill
- JS Mill - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 10:15 am:
Man does that make me sad. Bill Withers was awesome.
- ChrisB - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 10:23 am:
Lovely Day was our first dance on our wedding day. Very sad.
- Generic Drone - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 10:42 am:
RIP Bill. One of my favs was Use Me. Still sing it today.
- Loop Lady - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 10:48 am:
Unique, soothing voice…sorry to hear…
- Because I said so.... - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 10:49 am:
Lovely Day was the first dance at my daughters wedding almost three years ago. All of us boomers in attendance were touched that this young couple truly appreciated great music. It was a lovely day!
RIP Bill.
- Froganon - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 10:57 am:
Lean On Me is a song to heal the soul. Praise for a life well lived and beautifully shared.
- Dotnonymous - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 11:03 am:
“Lean on me when you’re not strong”…was the beautiful philosophy of a beautiful man.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 11:06 am:
Such sad news.
Really great choice Rich, for me, this song walks that edge of having both sympathy and then still speaking to empathy.
That voice? The ideal instrument for the message.
- phenom_Anon - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 11:08 am:
“Use Me” is one of my all time favorite songs. When he gets into that long slow jam with the guitar toward the end… Good stuff.
- Boone's is Back - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 11:44 am:
That’s a big loss, loved Bill Withers.
- Rural Juror - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 12:24 pm:
I highly recommend the 2009 documentary Still Bill.
- Rich Hill - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 2:10 pm:
Grandma’s Hands is the song that has come to mind more than any over the past few weeks. Click the link on this post for a superlative version by the great Bill Withers.
- Leatherneck - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 2:15 pm:
RIP Bill.
BTW, on this day in 1981 Bill’s hit “Just the Two of Us,” with Grover Washington Jr. on sax, was #7 on the Billboard charts. On its way to peak at #2 the next month. I have always loved that song–in fact, it’s always been my favorite Bill Withers song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njwasr1OOuc
https://top40weekly.com/1981/04/04/us-top-40-singles-week-ending-april-4-1981/
- MuddFlapp - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 2:50 pm:
Have all his ablums playing on a loop today. We all know the hits but Bill Withers had a lot of deep cuts too! The album +Justments highly underrated. The song YOU is why he is one, if not the most prolific American song writer ever. I said that line last week, and have for years. One of the best music videos ever….so much soul. Rest His Soul. Peace to all…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAncvyAk5Vw
- Flapdoodle - Friday, Apr 3, 20 @ 4:04 pm:
“Lean on Me” came out about the time I was finishing up some advanced training at Fort Bragg — it became sort of an underground anthem for us. Have loved it ever since. Sad to know Bill Withers is gone.