A true artist, a master of his craft and a wonderful human being... met him once on a tv show here in The Netherlands... What a guy... so nice and modest...
Been a huge fan since I first heard this song on my little transistor radio. I was having difficulties in my personal life. This touched my soul then and now. It felt that he was singing to me and knew my pain.
Bill Withers' childhood in the coal mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, was the inspiration for "Lean on Me", which he wrote after he had moved to Los Angeles and found himself missing the strong community ethic of his hometown. He had lived in a decrepit house in the poor section of his town. I live in Pineville, WV about 25 mins from his home town.
God Bless you, India...... You get it. When I was younger, I took piano lessons and those chords at the beginning of the song were the first thing I taught myself. Thank you for your thoughts and your review. Take care... be well. Peace.
In his Songfacts interview, Bill Withers talked about this song: "This was my second album, so I could afford to buy myself a little Wurlitzer electric piano. So I bought a little piano and I was sitting there just running my fingers up and down the piano. In the course of doing the music, that phrase crossed my mind, so then you go back and say, 'OK, I like the way that phrase, Lean On Me, sounds with this song.' So you go back and say, 'How do I arrive at this as a conclusion to a statement? What would I say that would cause me to say Lean On Me?' At that point, it's between you and your actual feelings, you and your morals and what you're really like. You probably do more thinking about it after it's done." Withers did not record his first song until he was 32 years old. He was in the US Navy for nine years, then worked at a factory making parts for airplanes. Says Withers: "Being from a rural, West Virginia setting, that kind of circumstance would be more accessible to me than it would be to a guy living in New York where people step over you if you're passed out on the sidewalk, or Los Angeles, where you could die on the side of the freeway and it would probably be eight days before anyone noticed you were dead. Coming from a place where people were a little more attentive to each other, less afraid, that would cue me to have those considerations. I think what we say is influenced by how we are, what's been our life experiences. Now, I notice young guys writing about shooting each other in the city and stuff like that, well I would never have said anything like that because it was not my experience, I'm not from a big city. I think circumstance dictates what people think." This is often the first song children learn to play on the piano because they don't have to change fingers. You just put your fingers in one position and go up and down the keyboard. This song has a very broad appeal, as people from just about any background can relate to the lyrics. It was a hit on a variety of formats and did well all over the US and throughout much of the world. Withers told us: "It's a rural song that translates across demographic lines. Who could argue with the fact that it would be nice to have somebody who really was that way? My experience was, there were people who were that way. They would help you out. Even in the rural South, there were people who would help you out even across racial lines. Somebody who would probably stand in a mob that might lynch you if you pissed them off, would help you out in another way." Withers: "When I was in the Navy, I must have been about 18, 19 years old, and I was stationed in Pensacola, Florida. It was a holiday, I had this car that I was able to buy and I was driving up to West Virginia. As is the case with young people with cheap cars, the tires weren't that great, so one of my tires blew out on this rural Alabama road. This guy comes walking over the hill that looked like he was right out of the movie Deliverance. He says to me, 'Oh, you had a blowout.' Well, I didn't have a spare tire. This guy goes walking back across the hill, and I'm not too comfortable here because I know where I am. He comes back walking with a tire, and he actually helps me put the tire on the car. Just like the whole American experience, it's very complex and it has it's own little rules and stuff. I thought it was funny when everybody got worked up over Strom Thurmond having this daughter, and I thought, 'What else is new?' It depends on your socialization. My socialization was, it was very likely and very practical to expect a Lean On Me circumstance to exist. My experience was trying to adjust to a world where that circumstance was not the rule rather than the exception."
I was 12 years old when this song came out! I loved it then and still love it now. Always reminds me of my family and the good old days. I always want to go back, R.I.P Bill.
1972-1974 I went to his pad every friday to pick up his guitar and electric piano and take to the airport for him then pick it up on Mondays and return it to his pad. This was the first song I learned on the piano.
In my listening experience, nobody can mess with a listener's emotions like that. I teared up, and had to sniff a few times, too. And this isn't the first time I've heard this song. That's powerful. That singing style is so effective, with his phrasing being straight forward and then he finishes the phrase with a master stroke of understated flourish that sounds so right, and it makes you feel so good.
I was lucky to grow up listening to this man. With all that is going on this song is what Americans and the world needs. Everybody coming together except certain people and MSM. God bless everyone and stay safe.
a great song and you actually feel the song. Its like i can feel my soul absorbing the tune. Wicked soul tune. Good stuff Bill Withers you did your job
How many, besides me, listen to this song and the words inspire us but not enough to do anything from this inspiration? That shows us, if someone leaned on us, we'd fall like a rock!
You say that, and sometimes I feel like that too. But I believe when the chips are down that is when people step up and become the hero in their own story.
I remember Bill being interviewed on tv, and he was asked about the long note... He chuckled and said 'No one in the world could have held that note for that long. No, I had some help from the studio people for that'.
This is my all time favorite song....of ALL TIMES! HE SINGS IT SOOO ELOQUENTLY!!! NO MATTER ....RACE , CREED COLOR, JUPITER, NEPTUNE, VENUS OR EARTH....WE ARE HUMANS ON EARTH, with each other. LOVE, PEACE AND I LOVE YOU MY BROTHERS!!!!!!!! AMEN!!!!🌹🙏🌹🙏
I've loved this since I was a teen and it just came out. Avi Kaplan does a great cover of this song too. RIP Bill, and thank you for your beautiful music.
When a song is covered as much as Lean On Me has been, you know it's great. And I love going back to the original artist. Bill is definitely one of the greats. On another note, your new intro is amazing.
*@Bill Withers* -- Reminds me _SO_ much of my Dad. I wish I had sang with him more often. But in the last months and years of his life, my Dad, a very proud and private man, was hiding his illnesses from me, and everyone else. He passed the day after my Birthday in 2011.
Oh yeah! This song is truly epic! Bill's powerful rendition will always be the right one for me, though many many artists have covered it. Well how could they not,? It's just a beautiful song! Hmm, India, you will definitely love "You've Got A Friend" by James Taylor! AHH, now I see you've reacted to that one already. Have to check that out right now!!
Bill Withers was a poet, and a craftsman. He created the outer contours of the song, and the base, all to give him the launching pad for the rest of the song. Mr. Withers. studied. This is how art is made.
Yes, Slab Fork Bill, down the road from Beckley. During high school he was our pride of Southern WV and still is. It didn't matter if you were black or white, he was our brother. Every time I drive through Slab Fork I always think of him. Major lungs.
A dance version was a US #1 hit for Club Nouveau in 1987. It has also been covered by Tina Turner, Tom Jones and Al Green. This was used as the title and theme song to a 1989 movie about an inner city high school starring Morgan Freeman. Based on a true story, it shows how principal Joe Clark used very brash and unorthodox teaching methods to help unify the troubled school. Although he writes lyrics that are easy to understand, Withers describes himself as a "Lyrics Snob." He explains: "It's very difficult to make things simple and understandable. You ever sit down and have a conversation with somebody who took their formal education too seriously, and they're speaking and throwing in a bunch of words that you don't have a ready meaning for? You're sitting there nodding because you don't want them to think you're stupid, but what you really think is, there's a lot of easier ways to say it, and you wonder if they even know what they're talking about or if they're just showing off. To me, the biggest challenge in the world is to take anything that's complicated and make it simple so it can be understood by the masses. Somebody said a long time ago that the world was designed by geniuses, but it's run by idiots. I'm a stickler for saying something the simplest possible way with some elements of poetry. Simple is memorable. If something's too complicated, you're not going to walk around humming it to yourself because it's too hard to remember. The key is to make somebody not only remember it, but recall it over and over and over again. When you mention that some stuff I have written has lasted a long time, I think that's because it's re-accessible. That's why the simpler forms of music, which are my favorites, like country music and the blues and stuff that states something in a way that everybody can understand and you remember it. There are lines that are so profound, like 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,' or Billy Joel's 'I love you just the way you are.' I heard this country song the other day that really stuck to my ribs, and it was just a simple phrase - 'And when the time comes for you to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.' You can't say that any better. When I say I'm a snob lyrically, that means, how clear can you make it and in how few words." Mary J. Blige performed this on January 18, 2009 at a concert in Washington, DC to celebrate the upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America. >> Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow, and Keith Urban performed a downbeat, emotional version of this song on the charity telethon, Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief, which was held on January 22, 2010. When Withers was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, Stevie Wonder (who gave the induction speech) performed this song with John Legend. Withers appeared midway through the song and joined in, marking his first high-profile performance since he left the industry in the '80s. An instrumental section of this song was used in a 2017 Walmart commercial in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which devastated parts of Texas. "Those affected by Hurricane Harvey need someone to lean on," a title card reads, followed by an offer from Walmart to match donations to the Red Cross. Steve Wonder opened the 2017 Hand In Hand Telethon with a performance of this song. The benefit was to assist victims of hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
Besides the message, the reason this version of the song is so powerful is that Bill Withers kept the melody simple & just put his heart & soul into singing the song. There is a cover of this song that gets a fair amount of air time on the radio. But the song is sped up & made to have a more "modern" sound. As result you don't really feel anything when that version of the song airs. So I am glad you are reacting to the original version of this song.
We all love d this song !! I will always love! It !!!i I miss Bill withers and that warm, wonderful, beautiful, voice of his !!! RIP Mr withers !!!!!🤥🤤🤧🤥🤤🤧🤥🤤🤧🤥
What I love about Bill is that he's influenced by lots of music. He's not a typical motown gospel soul singer, he grew up in a mixed neighbourhood and was as influenced by country as he was gospel and blues. He took black and white and made it Bill.
@@loriannrichardson7644 it's American folk music that has its roots in several races. Nobody can really claim it but you have to admit that country music was the hang out of racists and was, and is, very white.
I loved this song from the day it debuted. And when I took piano lessons and got good enough, it was one of the first songs outside the lesson books that I taught myself to play.
Simple song with a profound meaning. Rip Bill.
Bill Withers...had quite a few songs that my friends and I used to sing ....loudly! RIP!
Bill Withers oozed soul and heartfelt genuine emotion. And he made it look so easy and sound so natural.
He invented his own genre: folk-soul. There has never been anyone since doing the same thing. A truly unique singer.
One of the greats, for sure.
That's what I call his music, also....folk-soul
I’d say lauryn hill is a descendant of his music ancestry for sure
By far my favorite Bill Withers song...timeless !
A true artist, a master of his craft and a wonderful human being... met him once on a tv show here in The Netherlands... What a guy... so nice and modest...
One of the best songs ever written and recorded!! Rest In Peace Bill Withers!! Thank You for the honesty that you put into your art!!!!
You’re so right. This song means a lot at a time like we’re in and always.
Rest In Peace Bill.
Been a huge fan since I first heard this song on my little transistor radio. I was having difficulties in my personal life. This touched my soul then and now. It felt that he was singing to me and knew my pain.
Bill Withers' childhood in the coal mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, was the inspiration for "Lean on Me", which he wrote after he had moved to Los Angeles and found himself missing the strong community ethic of his hometown. He had lived in a decrepit house in the poor section of his town. I live in Pineville, WV about 25 mins from his home town.
He has such a strong comforting voice.
One of my all time faves...makes me weepy
God Bless you, India...... You get it. When I was younger, I took piano lessons and those chords at the beginning of the song were the first thing I taught myself. Thank you for your thoughts and your review. Take care... be well. Peace.
He grew up just a few miles down the road from where I live in WestVirginia. Such a pure talent and good soul. RIP Bill
RIP Bill Withers, loved your songs back in the day and still today!
Glad to see a young woman discovering the music us old folks have loved for years.
Bill Withers, always one of my favorites, He was a class act, very intelligent, and we need to follow his example in our lives. RIP Bill ....
In his Songfacts interview, Bill Withers talked about this song: "This was my second album, so I could afford to buy myself a little Wurlitzer electric piano. So I bought a little piano and I was sitting there just running my fingers up and down the piano. In the course of doing the music, that phrase crossed my mind, so then you go back and say, 'OK, I like the way that phrase, Lean On Me, sounds with this song.' So you go back and say, 'How do I arrive at this as a conclusion to a statement? What would I say that would cause me to say Lean On Me?' At that point, it's between you and your actual feelings, you and your morals and what you're really like. You probably do more thinking about it after it's done."
Withers did not record his first song until he was 32 years old. He was in the US Navy for nine years, then worked at a factory making parts for airplanes. Says Withers: "Being from a rural, West Virginia setting, that kind of circumstance would be more accessible to me than it would be to a guy living in New York where people step over you if you're passed out on the sidewalk, or Los Angeles, where you could die on the side of the freeway and it would probably be eight days before anyone noticed you were dead. Coming from a place where people were a little more attentive to each other, less afraid, that would cue me to have those considerations. I think what we say is influenced by how we are, what's been our life experiences. Now, I notice young guys writing about shooting each other in the city and stuff like that, well I would never have said anything like that because it was not my experience, I'm not from a big city. I think circumstance dictates what people think."
This is often the first song children learn to play on the piano because they don't have to change fingers. You just put your fingers in one position and go up and down the keyboard.
This song has a very broad appeal, as people from just about any background can relate to the lyrics. It was a hit on a variety of formats and did well all over the US and throughout much of the world. Withers told us: "It's a rural song that translates across demographic lines. Who could argue with the fact that it would be nice to have somebody who really was that way? My experience was, there were people who were that way. They would help you out. Even in the rural South, there were people who would help you out even across racial lines. Somebody who would probably stand in a mob that might lynch you if you pissed them off, would help you out in another way."
Withers: "When I was in the Navy, I must have been about 18, 19 years old, and I was stationed in Pensacola, Florida. It was a holiday, I had this car that I was able to buy and I was driving up to West Virginia. As is the case with young people with cheap cars, the tires weren't that great, so one of my tires blew out on this rural Alabama road. This guy comes walking over the hill that looked like he was right out of the movie Deliverance. He says to me, 'Oh, you had a blowout.' Well, I didn't have a spare tire. This guy goes walking back across the hill, and I'm not too comfortable here because I know where I am. He comes back walking with a tire, and he actually helps me put the tire on the car. Just like the whole American experience, it's very complex and it has it's own little rules and stuff. I thought it was funny when everybody got worked up over Strom Thurmond having this daughter, and I thought, 'What else is new?' It depends on your socialization. My socialization was, it was very likely and very practical to expect a Lean On Me circumstance to exist. My experience was trying to adjust to a world where that circumstance was not the rule rather than the exception."
That was great information, thank you for sharing it 💙 DC3
Love this background. Thanks so much.
I was 12 years old when this song came out! I loved it then and still love it now. Always reminds me of my family and the good old days. I always want to go back, R.I.P Bill.
Another amazing Bill Withers song that comes from the heart and soul. We lost him to Covid and I pray that he found Grandma's Hands.
????? Is this a joke -- he died b4 Covid
One of the most special songs ever. ❤️
This is one of my favorite songs! The songs message is simple. Love one another and respect each other. Reminds me of a simpler time. RIP Bill.
1972-1974 I went to his pad every friday to pick up his guitar and electric piano and take to the airport for him then pick it up on Mondays and return it to his pad. This was the first song I learned on the piano.
Such a classic! An anthem!
Loved Bill Withers, great singer.
Bill Withers! The man defined the 70s.
Can't hear this song w/out crying...esp. now that we lost him. He was one of the legends..always & forever...
In my listening experience, nobody can mess with a listener's emotions like that. I teared up, and had to sniff a few times, too. And this isn't the first time I've heard this song.
That's powerful. That singing style is so effective, with his phrasing being straight forward and then he finishes the phrase with a master stroke of understated flourish that sounds so right, and it makes you feel so good.
This man will be in heaven singing for us all!❣️
This was a staple in the home where I grew up. Just like potatoes , this was the kind of music that this is just a nurtured our souls.
Bill was a truly one of a kind, there will never be another like him. True feeling in his music.
This song was a HUGE hit when I was in junior high school early 70s great musician. This song brings back so many memories.
When Bill Withers came on the radio, you knew who it was.. what a voice, and talent. RIP brother..
I was lucky to grow up listening to this man. With all that is going on this song is what Americans and the world needs. Everybody coming together except certain people and MSM. God bless everyone and stay safe.
Thank you🙏🏻 RIP Bill
So simple the chords, so simple the words. MOST POWERFUL of all-time!!
I grew up with this song. No One Can Do A Better Job. This Song Belongs To The Singer.!✝️💝😊👍🏼🇺🇸
Bill Withers has so many great songs! I just discovered Hope She'll Be Happier and it is a Must Listen!
Absolutely one of my favorite musicians!!
We all need somebody to lean on...So true in these dire times.
a great song and you actually feel the song. Its like i can feel my soul absorbing the tune. Wicked soul tune. Good stuff Bill Withers you did your job
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, one of my favorites.
How many, besides me, listen to this song and the words inspire us but not enough to do anything from this inspiration? That shows us, if someone leaned on us, we'd fall like a rock!
You say that, and sometimes I feel like that too. But I believe when the chips are down that is when people step up and become the hero in their own story.
Yes I know I'm a little naive but I've seen it happen
Amen, most would, but some of us (especially during crises) rise to the occasion... Thank God, that everyone is not like you and me.
For my wedding this is the song I chose to for the groom mother dance. My mom was a single mom always there for me. This song makes me think of her.
This defines my childhood! May he rest in power/peace. ☮️
Gorgeous record. I might be right in thinking that Lovely Day had the longest held note ever recorded. Great singer. Fills my heart with joy.
I remember Bill being interviewed on tv, and he was asked about the long note... He chuckled and said 'No one in the world could have held that note for that long. No, I had some help from the studio people for that'.
@@saintjohn6295 yeah, no I prefer my version of that story lol. But you're probably right. Sounded great though, didn't it 😆
Love that song. Bill Withers brought it to life like no one else.
A magician with words and music. RIP 😪
Grandma's Hands from this same concert is also amazing
One of those songs that will last forever.
This is my all time favorite song....of ALL TIMES! HE SINGS IT SOOO ELOQUENTLY!!! NO MATTER ....RACE , CREED COLOR, JUPITER, NEPTUNE, VENUS OR EARTH....WE ARE HUMANS ON EARTH, with each other. LOVE, PEACE AND I LOVE YOU MY BROTHERS!!!!!!!! AMEN!!!!🌹🙏🌹🙏
Look for for Bill doing 'Grandma's Hands" live at Carnegie Hall 1973,,It's the same live show that this one is from
Great song and just a great voice thank you for playing it.
Never heard a live recording of this. He has such emotion in his face. Made me cry a little. 💚
Love this song. He was a legend
Beautifully profound song! ❤
I wish it was the world's anthem~~((❤🌏🌎🌍❤))
(I loved the Tracy Chapman intro, as well.💯❤)
Oh my absolute fav! Thank you Mr. Withers for the many gifts you have left for us.
Love your new Tracy Chapman "Fast Car" intro! Keep up the GREAT work.
And the angels in the choir in heaven said. We really need to step it up now. Bill just got here. May this beautiful soul RIP.
I've loved this since I was a teen and it just came out. Avi Kaplan does a great cover of this song too. RIP Bill, and thank you for your beautiful music.
One of the GREAT ONE'S. Truly appreciate.
🎹🎶🎤 " Rest in Heavenly Peace " my Brother. 💜🌎🇺🇸 I was 12 , going on 13 at this time " The 70's ".
This came out before I was born, but I remember it making a big comeback sometime in the mid 80's.
When a song is covered as much as Lean On Me has been, you know it's great. And I love going back to the original artist. Bill is definitely one of the greats.
On another note, your new intro is amazing.
This was so emotional for me to watch, even though I have seen it so many times. He was incredible.
AMAZING talent and songwriter! Thank you, India!❤
You shouldn't ever have to feel down, because you are WELL loved. You have more heart than ten mere mortals.
*@Bill Withers* -- Reminds me _SO_ much of my Dad. I wish I had sang with him more often. But in the last months and years of his life, my Dad, a very proud and private man, was hiding his illnesses from me, and everyone else. He passed the day after my Birthday in 2011.
His voice always has a direct line to my heart. You feel the emotions.
I was 15 that year. Remember the song like it was yesterday. No doubt one of the all time greats.
Oh yeah! This song is truly epic! Bill's powerful rendition will always be the right one for me, though many many artists have covered it. Well how could they not,? It's just a beautiful song!
Hmm, India, you will definitely love "You've Got A Friend" by James Taylor!
AHH, now I see you've reacted to that one already. Have to check that out right now!!
You tried the Donny Hathaway/Roberta Flack version, incredible.
@@alisonrodger3360 Nope, but I love Roberta, so I'll check it out! Thanx. :¬)
This is one of those songs that has been floating around the ether forever, and it just needed someone to receive it, and write it down....
Lots of his songs sound like that! 😀
Bill Withers was a poet, and a craftsman. He created the outer contours of the song, and the base, all to give him the launching pad for the rest of the song. Mr. Withers. studied. This is how art is made.
Yes, Slab Fork Bill, down the road from Beckley. During high school he was our pride of Southern WV and still is. It didn't matter if you were black or white, he was our brother. Every time I drive through Slab Fork I always think of him. Major lungs.
Bill Withers is my favourite songwriter. My favourite song he wrote is Railroad Man. Never even knew it as a child, but it makes me nostalgic.
Love bill withers, he was a wonderful artist thanks
Rolling Stone has a great article on him now - what integrity he had as well as incredible talent and heart.
A dance version was a US #1 hit for Club Nouveau in 1987. It has also been covered by Tina Turner, Tom Jones and Al Green.
This was used as the title and theme song to a 1989 movie about an inner city high school starring Morgan Freeman. Based on a true story, it shows how principal Joe Clark used very brash and unorthodox teaching methods to help unify the troubled school.
Although he writes lyrics that are easy to understand, Withers describes himself as a "Lyrics Snob." He explains: "It's very difficult to make things simple and understandable. You ever sit down and have a conversation with somebody who took their formal education too seriously, and they're speaking and throwing in a bunch of words that you don't have a ready meaning for?
You're sitting there nodding because you don't want them to think you're stupid, but what you really think is, there's a lot of easier ways to say it, and you wonder if they even know what they're talking about or if they're just showing off. To me, the biggest challenge in the world is to take anything that's complicated and make it simple so it can be understood by the masses. Somebody said a long time ago that the world was designed by geniuses, but it's run by idiots.
I'm a stickler for saying something the simplest possible way with some elements of poetry. Simple is memorable. If something's too complicated, you're not going to walk around humming it to yourself because it's too hard to remember. The key is to make somebody not only remember it, but recall it over and over and over again. When you mention that some stuff I have written has lasted a long time, I think that's because it's re-accessible.
That's why the simpler forms of music, which are my favorites, like country music and the blues and stuff that states something in a way that everybody can understand and you remember it. There are lines that are so profound, like 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,' or Billy Joel's 'I love you just the way you are.' I heard this country song the other day that really stuck to my ribs, and it was just a simple phrase - 'And when the time comes for you to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.' You can't say that any better. When I say I'm a snob lyrically, that means, how clear can you make it and in how few words."
Mary J. Blige performed this on January 18, 2009 at a concert in Washington, DC to celebrate the upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America. >>
Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow, and Keith Urban performed a downbeat, emotional version of this song on the charity telethon, Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief, which was held on January 22, 2010.
When Withers was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, Stevie Wonder (who gave the induction speech) performed this song with John Legend. Withers appeared midway through the song and joined in, marking his first high-profile performance since he left the industry in the '80s.
An instrumental section of this song was used in a 2017 Walmart commercial in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which devastated parts of Texas. "Those affected by Hurricane Harvey need someone to lean on," a title card reads, followed by an offer from Walmart to match donations to the Red Cross.
Steve Wonder opened the 2017 Hand In Hand Telethon with a performance of this song. The benefit was to assist victims of hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
You have to do ain't no sunshine when she's gone next
Great song! ❤💯👍
Yass that song reminds me of my mother I lost her last year aint no sunshine is deep.
Oh that voice, wrapping me up and rocking my soul
Watcha doing today India? Walking me through my best memories? Thank you.
He was just so soulful,
This song makes everything alright. Makes me cry cant lie.
We all need somebody to lean on ❤
Hope to see more Bill Withers reactions...like the new intro, you had me singing the last intro to death! Lol 👍😎
The beauty of Black music -- My God, My God. I'm in tears here.
Besides the message, the reason this version of the song is so powerful is that Bill Withers kept the melody simple & just put his heart & soul into singing the song. There is a cover of this song that gets a fair amount of air time on the radio. But the song is sped up & made to have a more "modern" sound. As result you don't really feel anything when that version of the song airs. So I am glad you are reacting to the original version of this song.
We all love d this song !! I will always love! It !!!i I miss Bill withers and that warm, wonderful, beautiful, voice of his !!! RIP Mr withers !!!!!🤥🤤🤧🤥🤤🤧🤥🤤🤧🤥
This song has such meaning. In this time and day, we could lean on each other instead of continuing to hate.
angels be leaning on bill right now. love this man.
What I love about Bill is that he's influenced by lots of music. He's not a typical motown gospel soul singer, he grew up in a mixed neighbourhood and was as influenced by country as he was gospel and blues. He took black and white and made it Bill.
Country music is Black music, it's a little known fact.
@@loriannrichardson7644 it's American folk music that has its roots in several races. Nobody can really claim it but you have to admit that country music was the hang out of racists and was, and is, very white.
I love Bill Withers's songs, and I love your reaction to it! Blessings to your beautiful self!
You can FEEL this down to the bones
Thank you for that beautiful song again
'Use Me'.......another great live version. You've got to check it out just for the drummer.
Such a great tune I love it!
The piano intro to *Lean on me* was something everyone back in the day could play, whether you knew music or not.
OMG ! Instant tears at first chord ! I LOVED this song back then! Thank you India.. Wore the '45' out.
Ahhhhhh he was so great!!!! ❤️ R.I.P.
Bill and Ray Charles' voices sound like horns to me. Incredible.
This has always been my favourite song, so happy someone reacted to it. I love all his songs buts this is the best one
I loved this song from the day it debuted. And when I took piano lessons and got good enough, it was one of the first songs outside the lesson books that I taught myself to play.
I love your reaction to this song, it’s so beautifully on point. You are so genuine and that’s so rare on Social Media.❤️😊