snagelpuss - Lovely Day
snagelpuss
Jan 21, 2025 04:54pm
<p><strong style="background-color: white; color: rgb(54, 95, 145);">A TO Z CHALLENGE - B , C , D , E</strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; color: rgb(54, 95, 145);">ARTISTS , GROUPS & SONGS</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">"</span><strong style="background-color: white; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Lovely Day</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">" is a song by American </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: white;">soul</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: white;">R&B</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> singer </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Withers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: white;">Bill Withers</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">. Written by Withers and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_Scarborough" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: white;">Skip Scarborough</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">, it was released on December 21, 1977, and appears on Withers's sixth album, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menagerie_(album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: white;"><em>Menagerie</em></a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> (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 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: white;"><em>Rolling Stone</em></a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">'s "Top 500 Best Songs of All Time" in 2021.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Released as a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_(music)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">single</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> in late 1977, "Lovely Day" peaked at number 6 on the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Billboard</em></a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_R%26B/Hip-Hop_Songs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">R&B chart</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> and at number 30 on the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Billboard</em> Hot 100</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> in early 1978. Outside of the United States, "Lovely Day" peaked within the top ten of the charts in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number seven on the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">UK Singles Chart</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">"Lovely Day" has been re-released as a single in the United Kingdom at least twice since the song's first chart run; in 1987 the original version charted again at number 92 on the UK Singles Chart, while a remix done by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Liebrand" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ben Liebrand</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">, named the "Sunshine Mix", peaked within the top 10 in 1988, peaking at number four on the UK Singles Chart.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> This remix resulted in renewed enthusiasm for the Withers original, which incurred a surge in airplay into the early 1990s and came to firmly overshadow the radio presence of Liebrand's version. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Public interest was again piqued in 1995, when "Lovely Day" was used in adverts for </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetley" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tetley</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> tea, again in 1999 for a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_(clothing_retailer)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gap</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> commercial directed by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_Williams" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hype Williams</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">, and yet again in 2020 in ads for </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Morning_Football" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Good Morning Football</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> on </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Network" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NFL Network</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allstate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Allstate</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> insurance TV commercial, as well as an ad for Pandora Jewelers. </span></p><p><br></p>