The song “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone” suddenly popped into my mind while I was doing the weather report for a newsletter I edit (all the places are sunny this week, after a few mixed weeks) so I looked it up, and found Bill Withers sang it in 1971.
The name didn’t really mean much to me, but then I found he wrote a few other songs that have since become classics and been covered many times.
Here is “Ain’t No Sunshine When You’re Gone”:
You may have heard numerous versions of “Lean On Me” by various artists, here’s the original, sung live on a BBC show from 1973:
And you’ll definitely have heard this one somewhere, “Just The Two Of Us”:
Quiet, gentle songs, but music that you remember.
Paul