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"Lean on Me"
Single by Bill Withers
from the album Still Bill
B-side	"Amend Off Expressionless"
Released	April 21, 1972 (1972-04-21)
Recorded	1972
Genre	Soul
Length	4:17 (album version) 3:45 (unmarried version)
Label	Sussex
Songwriter(southward)	Bill Withers
Producer(s)	Neb Withers
Neb Withers singles chronology
"Grandma'due south Hands" (1971) "Lean on Me" (1972) "Use Me" (1972)
Sound
"Lean on Me" on YouTube

"Lean on Me" is a song written and recorded by American vocaliser-songwriter Beak Withers. It was released in April 1972 equally the first single from his second anthology, Still Bill. It was a number one single on both the soul singles and the Billboard Hot 100; the latter chart for three weeks in July 1972.^[i] Billboard ranked it as the No. vii vocal of 1972.^[2] It is ranked number 208 on Rolling Rock 's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".^[three] Numerous other versions have been recorded, and it is one of only nine songs to have reached No. one on the Billboard Hot 100 with versions recorded past 2 different artists.^[4]

Background and writing [edit]

Bill Withers's childhood in the coal mining town of Slab Fork, Westward Virginia,^[five] was the inspiration for "Lean on Me", which he wrote after he had moved to Los Angeles and found himself missing the strong customs ethic of his hometown. He had lived in a decrepit firm in the poor department of his boondocks.

Withers recalled to SongFacts the original inspiration for the vocal:

"I bought a lilliputian piano and I was sitting there just running my fingers up and down the piano. In the grade of doing the music, that phrase crossed my heed, so so you become back and say, 'OK, I similar the way that phrase, Lean On Me, sounds with this song.'" ^[vi]

Withers stated in the same interview that he made an endeavour to proceed the lyrics simple.^[six]

Several members of the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band^[7] were used for the recording session in 1972. A cord department was also included as well.

Withers's version is noted for its span section: ("Only phone call on me, brother"), also as the coda department, where the words "call me" are repeated a total of 14 times, before the song ends on a cadenza on the strings. Several radio stations, as well as the unmarried version, fade out during the repeated coda, due to time limits likewise as the repetition of the lyrics. Some radio versions cut the number of "Call Me's" to vi times before the vocal'southward end.

Personnel [edit]

• Pecker Withers – Pianoforte, Vocals
• Benorce Blackmon – Guitar
• Raymond Jackson – Wurlitzer electric piano, cord arrangement
• Melvin Dunlap – Bass
• James Gadson – Drums

Track listings [edit]

7-inch single

1. "Lean on Me" – 3:45
2. "Better Off Dead" – ii:thirteen

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Club Nouveau version [edit]

"Lean on Me"
Unmarried by Club Nouveau
from the anthology Life, Beloved & Pain
B-side	"Pump it Up (Reprise)"
Released	March xx, 1987
Recorded	1986
Genre	R&B soul funk go-go
Length	6:01 (LP version) 3:58 (radio edit)
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(due south)	Beak Withers
Producer(s)	Jay King
Social club Nouveau singles chronology
"Situation #9" (1986) "Lean on Me" (1987) "Why You Treat Me So Bad" (1987)
Music video
"Lean on Me" on YouTube

The R&B group Social club Nouveau covered the song with go-get beat and took information technology to number 1 for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in March 1987.^[17] It also reached number one on the dance charts,^[17] and number two on the Black Singles charts, kept out of the peak spot by Jody Watley's "Looking for a New Love". It won a Grammy honor in 1987 for Bill Withers, every bit the author, for All-time R&B Vocal.^[18] This version of "Lean on Me" is known for the add-on of the faux-reggae refrain "We exist jammin'! We exist jammin'!".

The song ranked at number 94 in VH1's 100 Greatest 1-hit Wonders of the 80s.^[19]

Rails listings [edit]

7-inch unmarried

1. "Lean on Me" – three:58
2. "Pump It Up (Lean on Me)" (reprise) – two:38

12-inch unmarried

1. "Lean on Me" (remix)" – vii:42
2. "Lean on Me" (LP version) – five:56
3. "Pump It Up (Lean on Me)" (remix) – four:51
4. "Pump Information technology Upwardly (Lean on Me)" (reprise – LP version) – 2:38

Charts [edit]

Weekly charts [edit]

Chart (1987)	Peak position
Commonwealth of australia (Kent Music Report) [20]	5
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[21]	22
Belgium (Ultratop fifty Flanders)[22]	12
Canada Pinnacle Singles (RPM)	ane
Republic of ireland (IRMA)	five
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[23]	v
Netherlands (Single Height 100)[24]	4
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[25]	1
South Africa (Springbok) [26]	2
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[27]	7
United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Singles (OCC)	3
U.s.a. Billboard Hot 100[28]	1
US Developed Contemporary (Billboard)[29]	31
US Trip the light fantastic toe Club Songs (Billboard)[xxx]	1
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[31]	ii
West Germany (Official German Charts)[32]	9

Year-cease charts [edit]

chart (1987)	Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[33]	27
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[34]	7
Netherlands (Unmarried Top 100)[35]	xviii
Us Billboard Hot 100[36]	29
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[37]	39
Westward Deutschland (Official German language Charts)[38]	61

Certifications [edit]

2-4 Family version [edit]

"Lean on Me (With the Family unit)"
Single by 2-4 Family unit
from the album Family Business organization
Released	January xxx, 1999 (1999-01-30)
Recorded	1998
Genre	Hip hop
Length	3:38 (radio version)
Label	Epic
Songwriter(southward)	Neb Withers
Producer(s)	Alex Trime, Sven "Delgado" Jordan
2-4 Family singles chronology
"Stay" (1998) "Lean on Me (With the Family)" (1999) "Take Me Home" (1999)

In 1999, ii-4 Family released "Lean on Me (With the Family unit)", a remake with a hip hop arrangement and additional lyrics. Epic Records published a 12-inch single and a CD maxi single in Germany.

In 2008, several years after the dissolution of 2-iv Family, founding band-fellow member Mike Johnson performed the song with backing vocalists and dancers at the Eurovision Vocal Competition in Bulgaria.

Track listings [edit]

12-inch single [edit]

1. "Lean on Me (With the Family unit)" (Special radio version) – 3:58
2. "Lean on Me (With the Family unit)" (DSP mix) – 4:04
3. "nine Lives" (Album Version) – four:06
4. "Stay" (Special Radio Version) – iv:12
5. "Lean on Me (With the Family)" (Lounge mix) – 6:38
6. "Stay" (Jay's D-Style Mix) – 4:xv

CD maxi single [edit]

1. "Lean on Me (With the Family unit)" (Radio version) – three:38
2. "Lean on Me (With the Family)" (DSP mix) – 4:04
3. "Lean on Me (With the Family unit)" (Lounge mix) – half-dozen:38
4. "Lean on Me (With the Family)" (Special radio version) – iii:58
5. "Stay" (Jay'due south D-Style mix) – 4:15
6. "9 Lives" (Anthology version) – four:06

Charts [edit]

Chart (1999)	Elevation position
Austria (Ö3 Republic of austria Top 40)[41]	half-dozen
Federal republic of germany (Official High german Charts)[42]	9
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[43]	seven

Year-end charts [edit]

In popular civilization [edit]

• The song is used in the catastrophe scene of the Season 7 episode of The Simpsons episode, "Radioactive Homo".^[45]
• Mary J. Blige performed this vocal at the HBO We Are Ane: The Obama Inaugural Commemoration at the Lincoln Memorial (January xviii, 2009).^[46] The next day, a crowd spontaneously began singing the song in the Purple Tunnel of Doom under the National Mall as they waited to gain entrance to the inauguration ceremonies.^[47]
• On Oct 3, 2015, Hillary Clinton, during her presidential candidature, made a cameo advent on Sat Night Live in a comedy sketch aslope Kate McKinnon, who regularly parodied Clinton for the show. At the cease of the sketch, the duo sang "Lean on Me" together.^[48]
• In the animated series Amphibia, the vocal plays at the climax of the first flavor finale "Reunion".

Notable embrace versions [edit]

• In 1989, remakes of "Lean on Me" past the Winans and Sandra Reaves-Phillips provided the emotional uplift for the moving picture, Lean on Me. For the same film, the song was adapted by Big Daddy Kane in "hip hop" course.^[49] That same year Kids Incorporated covered "Lean on Me" in the Flavour 6 episode "The Cover Upwards".^[fifty]
• In 2020, the song was recorded past an ad hoc supergroup of Canadian musicians credited as ArtistsCAN, both in tribute to Withers' recent death and to enhance funds for the Canadian Blood-red Cross during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[51] Participating artists included Bryan Adams, Jann Arden, Justin Bieber, Michael Bublé, Fefe Dobson, Scott Helman, Shawn Claw, Avril Lavigne, Geddy Lee, Marie-Mai, Sarah McLachlan, Johnny Orlando, Josh Ramsay, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tyler Shaw, Walk Off the Earth, Donovan Woods, and Olivia Lunny.^[52]

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External links [edit]

• "Lean On Me" at the 2022 Induction Ceremony on YouTube

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_on_Me_%28song%29

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