Ain't No Sunshine : Rolling Stone

Written by: Withers
Produced by: Booker T. Jones
Released: July '71 on Sussex
Charts: 16 weeks
Top spot: No. 3

When thirty-one-year-old Withers recorded "Sunshine," his first chart hit, he was still working at a factory making toilet seats for 747s. Withers intended to write more lyrics for the part of the song where he repeats the phrase "I know" twenty-six times, but the other musicians told him to leave it. "I was this factory worker puttering around," Withers said. "So when they said to leave it like that, I left it."

Appears on: Lean on Me: The Best of Bill Withers (Columbia/Legacy)

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