Lean on Me

Lean on Me is a soul song that was released in 1972 by Bill Withers. It is since that time covered several times by different artists.

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[hide] *1 Bill Withers
 * 2 Club Nouveau
 * 3 Glee Cast
 * 4 Other covers

==Bill Withers[ Edit] == The song Lean on me became a number one hit for Bill Withers in the American Billboard Hot 100. In the British hit parade holds an eighteenth place. In the Netherlands and Flanders came not from a listing in the hit parade.

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 * - len="115" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * align="center" colspan="3" len="28" style="vertical-align:top;"|Lean on me
 * - len="325" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * align="center" colspan="3" len="287" style="vertical-align:top;"|Single from:
 * - len="364" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * align="center" colspan="3" len="326" style="vertical-align:top;"|From the album:
 * - len="258" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * len="166" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|B-side (s)
 * colspan="2" lang="en" len="33" style="vertical-align:top;"|Pump it up (Lean on me) (Reprise)
 * - len="74" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * lang="en" len="11" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Released
 * colspan="2" lang="en" len="4" style="vertical-align:top;"|1987
 * - len="257" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * lang="en" len="12" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Type of carrier
 * colspan="2" len="186" style="vertical-align:top;"|Vinyl single
 * - len="69" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * lang="en" len="6" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Recording
 * colspan="2" lang="en" len="4" style="vertical-align:top;"|1986
 * - len="1264" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * len="215" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Genre
 * colspan="2" lang="en" len="990" style="vertical-align:top;"|Soul, Funk, hip hop, R & B, Swing beat, New wave
 * - len="67" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * lang="en" len="4" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Duration
 * colspan="2" lang="en" len="4" style="vertical-align:top;"|3: 58
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 * len="171" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Tag
 * colspan="2" len="183" style="vertical-align:top;"|WEA
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 * len="176" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Writer (s)
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 * len="187" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Producer (s)
 * colspan="2" lang="en" len="793" style="vertical-align:top;"|Jay King, Thomas McElroy, Denzil Foster
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 * align="center" colspan="3" len="34" style="vertical-align:top;"|Position (s) in the charts
 * - len="2046" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * colspan="3" len="2023" style="vertical-align:top;"|
 * 1) 1 (United States, Canada, New Zealand)
 * 2) 3 (United Kingdom)
 * 3) 4 (Dutch Single Top 100)
 * 4) 5 (Dutch Top 40)
 * 5) 7 (Switzerland)
 * 6) 9 (Germany)
 * 7) 12 (Flemish Radio 2 Top 30)
 * 8) 22 (Austria)
 * - len="358" style="vertical-align:top;"
 * align="center" colspan="3" len="271" style="vertical-align:top;"|Club Nouveau
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 * colspan="3" len="1454" style="vertical-align:top;"|
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 * align="center" colspan="3" len="1048" style="vertical-align:top;"|

==Club Nouveau[ Edit] == In 1987 the American R & B group brachte Club Nouveau from the most successful version of the song. It reached in the American, Canadian and New Zealand charts the first place. In the Dutch Single Top 100 came into fourth place, while the Dutch Top 40 in the to number five came. In the Flemish Radio 2 Top 30 came the number only to a twelfth place. ===Chart Positions[ Edit] === ====Dutch Top 40[ Edit] ==== ===Dutch Single Top 100<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Flemish Radio 2 Top 30<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
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==Glee Cast<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2009, the Glee Cast their version in the form of a ballade. The song was in the tenth episode of the first season of the television series Glee sung by Finn and Quinn.The song was listed at number hundred a bad week in the Dutch Single Top 100. ===Chart Positions<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Dutch Single Top 100<span class="mw-editsection" len="352" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===

==Other covers<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">2-4 Family made a hiphopversiein 1998. Other covers came from Mud (1976), Al Jarreau (1985), dc Talk (1992), Michael Bolton (1993), Bonnie Tyler (1999), Anne Murray (1999) and The Temptations.