William Harrison Bill Withers, Jr. (born July 4, 1938) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. Some of his best-known songs are Lean on Me, Aint No Sunshine, Use Me, Just the Two of Us, Lovely Day, and Grandmas Hands.\r
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Bill Withers was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 and into the inaugural class of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame in 2007. Also, in 2007 his Lean On Me was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.\r
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he wrote and produced two songs on the Gladys Knight & the Pips record I Feel a Song, and in October 1974 performed in concert together with James Brown, Etta James, and B. B. King at the historic Rumble in the Jungle fight between Foreman and Ali in Zaire. Footage of his performance was included in the 1996 documentary film When We Were Kings, and he is heard on the accompanying soundtrack.\r
Just the Two of Us is a 1981 Grammy Award-winning R&B song recorded by Grover Washington, Jr. and Bill Withers. The song appeared on Washingtons album Winelight. It reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and topped the ARC Weekly Top 40 for a week.\r
Regina Belle covered Just the Two of Us in 1991 on the Tribute album To Grover, With Love, produced by Jason Miles, which made # 4 on Top Contemporary Jazz Albums Billboard Chart.\r
Bill Withers recorded another version of the song which is included on a CD of his greatest hits. Christian McBride covered the song with overdubbed basses only in a hidden track included in the album Philadelphia Experiment, released on Rope-A-Dope Records. Will Smith sampled Just the Two of Us in 1998. This version was parodied in the film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. It was heard in a TV commercial for Taco Bell that aired during NBCs coverage of Super Bowl XLİ on February 1, 2009. Bill Cosby did a parody version, Just the Slew of Us, as the theme music for his movie Bill Cosby: Himself.\r
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LYRICS:\r
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I see the crystal raindrops fall\r
And see the beauty of it all\r
Is when the sun comes shining through\r
To make those rainbows in my mind\r
When I think of you some time\r
And I want to spend some time with you\r
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Just the two of us\r
We can make it if we try\r
Just the two of us\r
Just the two of us\r
Building castles in the sky\r
Just the two of us\r
You and I\r
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We look for love, no time for tears\r
Wasted waterss all that is\r
And it dont make no flowers grow\r
Good things might come to those who wait\r
Not to those who wait to late\r
We got to go for all we know\r
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Just the two of us\r
We can make it if we try\r
Just the two of us\r
Just the two of us\r
Building castles in the sky\r
Just the two of us\r
You and I\r
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I hear the crystal raindrops fall\r
On the window down the hall\r
And it becomes the morning dew\r
Darling, when the morning comes\r
And I see the morning sun\r
I want to be the one with you\r
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Just the two of us\r
We can make it if we try\r
Just the two of us\r
Just the two of us\r
Building big castles way on high\r
Just the two of us\r
You and I\r
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Just the two of us\r
Lets get together, baby\r
Just the two of us\r
We can make it\r
Just the two of us\r
We can make it\r
Just the two of us
