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"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. [ 2 ]
The original release had reached number 7 in the UK in early 1978, and the re-release climbed higher to number 4. [30] At the 30th Annual Grammy Awards in 1988, Withers won the Grammy for Best Rhythm and Blues Song as songwriter for the re-recording of "Lean on Me" by Club Nouveau. This was Withers' ninth Grammy nomination and third win. [10]
"Lean on Me" is a song by American gospel artist Kirk Franklin. Released in 1998, the song greatly helped ascend Kirk Franklin's album The Nu Nation Project. [1] The Nu Nation Project went on to top the Billboard Contemporary Christian Albums chart for 23 weeks and the Billboard Gospel Albums chart for 49 weeks, and brought Franklin his third Grammy.
"Lean on Me", an Amazon Original remake of the above, by Old Dominion "Lean on Me" (Cheat Codes song), ... "Lean on Me", by the Housemartins from London 0 Hull 4, 1986
Frankie Laine (born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio; March 30, 1913 – February 6, 2007) was an American singer and songwriter whose career spanned nearly 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005.
Donald McLean III / m ə ˈ k l eɪ n / (born October 2, 1945) [1] is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, known to fans as the "American Troubadour" or "King of the Trail". [2] [3] He is best known for his 1971 hit "American Pie", an eight-and-a-half-minute folk rock song that has been referred to as a "cultural touchstone". [4]
(The Lennon/Spector co-composition "Here We Go Again" was not included on the remastered Rock 'n' Roll, and can be found on Menlove Ave. as well as on the soundtrack album for The U.S. vs. John Lennon and the 2010 Gimme Some Truth 4-CD set, on the 4th CD entitled "Roots" featuring the Rock 'n' Roll tracks). In 2010, the original album mixes ...
Reviewing the Tina Turner mini-album for Billboard, Nelson George noted that Turner's "interpretations of two Bill Withers classics "Lean On Me" and "Use Me," were the stand out tracks". He added that on "Lean On Me", Tina, "with more than a little help from Ike's clever rearrangement, turns Withers' mid-tempo tribute to friendship into a ...