While recording his 1971 hit Ain't No Sunshine, Bill Withers famously repeated the phrase I know twenty-six times simply as a placeholder because he had not yet finished writing the third verse. Despite his initial plan to replace the repetition with actual lyrics, his producers and fellow session musicians felt the rhythmic chant added a unique emotional intensity and insisted on keeping it in the final track. Credit: Sony Music Entertainment, Columbia Records | History In Pictures
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While recording his 1971 hit Ain't No Sunshine, Bill Withers famously repeated the phrase I know twenty-six times simply as a placeholder because he had not yet finished writing the third verse. Despite his initial plan to replace the repetition with actual lyrics, his producers and fellow session musicians felt the rhythmic chant added a unique emotional intensity and insisted on keeping it in the final track. Credit: Sony Music Entertainment, Columbia Records | History In Pictures
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DID YOU KNOW? Bill Withers had written a third verse for “Ain’t No Sunshine,” but was encouraged by his band to sing more “I know”s for emotional impact. "I was this factory worker puttering around, so when they said to leave it like that, I left it,” he remembered. | Legacy Recordings
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