Lovely Day

"Lovely Day"
"Lovely Day"
	Side B of the late-1970s US reissue
Single by Bill Withers
from the album Menagerie
B-side	"It Ain't Because of Me Baby"
Released	December 21, 1977
Genre	R&B; soul; funk; disco;
Length	3:46 (single version); 4:15 (album version);
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Bill Withers; Skip Scarborough;
Producer(s)	Bill Withers; Clarence McDonald;
Bill Withers singles chronology
Official audio
	"Lovely Day" on YouTube

"Lovely Day" is a song by American soul and R&B singer Bill Withers. Written by Withers and Skip Scarborough, it was released on December 21, 1977, and appears on Withers's sixth album, Menagerie (1977). Withers holds a sustained note towards the end which, at 18 seconds, is one of the longest ever recorded on an American pop song. The song was listed at No. 402 on Rolling Stone's "Top 500 Best Songs of All Time" in 2021.^[1]

^ "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. September 15, 2021. Retrieved July 5, 2022.

[1] "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. September 15, 2021. Retrieved July 5, 2022.

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