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"Ain't No Sunshine" is a song by Bill Withers from his 1971 album ''Just As I Am,'' produced by Booker T. Jones. The record featured musicians Donald "Duck" Dunn on bass guitar, Al Jackson, Jr. on drums and Stephen Stills on guitar.〔The Mojo Collection: 4th Edition, LyricsFreak, Broken Radio, About.comOldies Music - In The Spotlight: Bill Withers〕 String arrangements were done by Booker T. Jones, and recorded in Memphis by engineer Terry Manning. The song is in natural minor.〔Stephenson, Ken (2002). ''What to Listen for in Rock: A Stylistic Analysis'', p.89. ISBN 978-0-300-09239-4.〕 The song was released as a single in September 1971, becoming a breakthrough hit for Withers, reaching number six on the U.S. R&B Chart and number three on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart. ''Billboard'' ranked it as the No. 23 song for 1971.〔Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1971〕 == History == Withers was inspired to write this song after watching the 1962 movie ''Days of Wine and Roses''. He explained, in reference to the characters played by Lee Remick and Jack Lemmon, "They were both alcoholics who were alternately weak and strong. It's like going back for seconds on rat poison. Sometimes you miss things that weren't particularly good for you. It's just something that crossed my mind from watching that movie, and probably something else that happened in my life that I'm not aware of." For the song's third verse, Withers had intended to write more lyrics instead of repeating the phrase "I know" 26 times, but then followed the advice of the other musicians to leave it that way: "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: ''Rolling Stone'' )〕 Withers, then thirty-one years old, was working at a factory making toilet seats for 747s at the time he wrote the song.〔 On the American Top 40 program of November 6, 1976, Casey Kasem reported that when the song when gold, the record company presented Withers with a golden toilet, marking the start of his new career. "Ain't No Sunshine" was the first of Withers' three gold records in the U.S. The song was originally released as the B-side to another song called "Harlem". Disc jockeys played "Ain't No Sunshine" as the single instead, and it became a huge hit,〔 the first for Withers.〔 "Harlem" was subsequently covered by The 5th Dimension, which was featured on their Soul and Inspiration album and released as a single. Withers performed the song on ''The Old Grey Whistle Test''. "Ain't No Sunshine" is ranked 285th on ''Rolling Stone'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ain't No Sunshine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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