Ain't No Sunshine Original version by BILL WITHERS My Rating - 9.6/10 Well, this gotta be the best romantic blues in the English language! I don't speak for the world but for a few who would agree with this. Recorded way back in the 1971, by Bill Withers for his album JUST AS I AM, a time when Bill was still working for a factory that made toilet seats. He originally intended to write more lyrics for the portion of the song where he repeats the phrase "I know" twenty-six times, but the other musicians told him to leave it the way it was. "I was this factory worker puttering around," Withers said. "So when they said to leave it like that, I left it." "Ain't No Sunshine" is ranked 280th on Rolling Stone 's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song won the Grammy for Best R&B Song in 1972. He is said to be inspired from a 1962 movie- Days of wine and roses. The track has been covered by over a hun
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