Club Nouveau Version
| "Lean on Me" | ||||
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| Single by Club Nouveau | ||||
| from the album Life, Love & Pain | ||||
| Released | March 20, 1987 | |||
| Recorded | 1986 | |||
| Genre | Soul, funk, hip hop, R&B, new jack swing | |||
| Length | 4:00 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Writer(s) | Bill Withers | |||
| Producer | Jay King | |||
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R&B group Club Nouveau covered the song and took it to number one for two weeks on the Billboard charts in 1987. It also scored number one on the dance charts, and won a Grammy award in 1987 for Bill Withers, as the writer, for Best R&B Song.
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