Ain't No Sunshine

"Ain't No Sunshine"
"Ain't No Sunshine"
Single by Bill Withers
from the album Just As I Am
B-side	"Harlem"
Released	July 1971
Genre	R&B; soul; blues; folk rock;
Length	2:03
Label	Sussex
Songwriter(s)	Bill Withers
Producer(s)	Booker T. Jones
Bill Withers singles chronology
Official audio
	"Ain't No Sunshine" on YouTube

"Ain't No Sunshine" is a 1971 song by Bill Withers. It was taken from his debut studio album Just As I Am. It went to number 3 in the United States, number 17 in Australia, number 9 in Canada and number 7 in Scotland in 2020 following Withers death. It went on to be covered by Michael Jackson and Deni Hines.

References

↑ Pitchfork Staff (August 22, 2016). "The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s". Pitchfork. Retrieved October 13, 2022. "Ain't No Sunshine" is a literal throughline from the era's Southern soul to the folk-rock movement...

[1] Pitchfork Staff (August 22, 2016). "The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s". Pitchfork. Retrieved October 13, 2022. "Ain't No Sunshine" is a literal throughline from the era's Southern soul to the folk-rock movement...

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Bill Withers
Discography
Studio albums	Just as I Am Still Bill +'Justments Making Music Naked & Warm Menagerie 'Bout Love Watching You, Watching Me
Live albums	Live at Carnegie Hall
Compilation albums	Bill Withers' Greatest Hits The Essential Bill Withers
Singles	"Ain't No Sunshine" "Grandma's Hands" "Everybody's Talkin'" "Let It Be" "Use Me" "Lean on Me" "The Same Love That Made Me Laugh" "Lovely Day" "Just the Two of Us" "Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?"
Other songs	"Apple Pie" "We Could Be Sweet Lovers"
Related articles	Discography Still Bill (film)

Michael Jackson songs
Singles Songs
1970s	"Got to Be There" "Ain't No Sunshine" "I Wanna Be Where You Are" "Rockin' Robin" "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" "You've Got a Friend" "Ben" "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" "My Girl" "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" "We've Got a Good Thing Going" "With a Child's Heart" "Morning Glow" "All the Things You Are" "Happy" "Too Young" "Doggin' Around" "Music and Me" "We're Almost There" "Just a Little Bit of You" "You Can't Win" "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" "Rock with You" "Working Day and Night" "It's the Falling in Love"
1980s	"Off the Wall" "Girlfriend" "She's Out of My Life" "One Day in Your Life" "The Girl Is Mine" "Billie Jean" "Beat It" "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" "Human Nature" "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" "Thriller" "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" "Lonely Teardrops" "That's What Love Is Made Of" "Farewell My Summer Love" "Girl You're So Together" "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" "Bad" "The Way You Make Me Feel" "Speed Demon" "Liberian Girl" "Just Good Friends" "Another Part of Me" "Man in the Mirror" "Dirty Diana" "Smooth Criminal" "Leave Me Alone" "Twenty-Five Miles"
1990s	"Black or White" "Jam" "In the Closet" "Remember the Time" "Heal the World" "Who Is It" "Give In to Me" "Will You Be There" "Gone Too Soon" "Dangerous" "Come Together" "Scream" "Childhood" "They Don't Care About Us" "Stranger in Moscow" "This Time Around" "Earth Song" "D.S." "You Are Not Alone" "Tabloid Junkie" "HIStory" "Smile" "Blood on the Dance Floor" "Ghosts" "Is It Scary" "On the Line"
2000s	"Speechless" "You Rock My World" "Heaven Can Wait" "Butterflies" "Cry" "One More Chance" "Cheater" "(I Like) The Way You Love Me" "Fall Again" "This Is It"
2010s	"Hold My Hand" "Hollywood Tonight" "(I Can't Make It) Another Day" "Behind the Mask" "Don't Be Messin' 'Round" "I'm So Blue" "Price of Fame" "Love Never Felt So Good" "Chicago" "Loving You" "A Place with No Name" "Slave to the Rhythm" "Blue Gangsta"
2020s	"She's Trouble"
Other	"We Are the World" "Mind Is the Magic" "What More Can I Give" "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" "Blood on the Dance Floor x Dangerous" "Diamonds Are Invincible"
Featured	"Ease on Down the Road" "A Brand New Day" "Night Time Lover" "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" "State of Independence" "Muscles" "Say Say Say" "Somebody's Watching Me" "Don't Stand Another Chance" "Centipede" "Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin' (Too Good to Be True)" "Eaten Alive" "Get It" "2300 Jackson Street" "Do the Bartman" "Whatzupwitu" "Why" "I Need You" "We Be Ballin'" "Girls, Girls, Girls" "All Eyez on Me" "All in Your Name" "There Must Be More to Life Than This" "Low" "Don't Matter to Me"
Category

Deni Hines
Studio albums	Imagination Water for Chocolate The Other Woman The Soul Sessions
Remix and compilation albums	Remix Your Imagination A Delicious Collection/The Definitive Collection
Singles	"It's Alright" "Imagination" "I Like the Way" "I'm Not in Love" "Pull Up to the Bumper" "Son of a Preacher Man" "I Only Have Eyes for You" "Takin' It to the Streets" "Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)"
Featured singles	"Ain't No Sunshine" "That Word (L.O.V.E.)" "It's Not Over" "Stomp!"
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