Bill Withers was in his 30s and working in a factory making airplane toilets when he recorded his self-financed demo tape. Didn& #39;t own a guitar until 32, wasn& #39;t a trained musician. One of first songs he wrote was "Ain& #39;t No Sunshine."

This is how he introduced it on a British television show: “Men have problems admitting to losing things. I think women are much better at that. . . So, once in my life, I wanted to forgo my own male ego and admit to losing something, so I came up with—" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CICIOJqEb5c&fbclid=IwAR3__f142UOY-QkA449qw7W3cuc439SKeGwrvC872-IJ837XmUAn6JDQgIE">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

also "I know, I know, I know" was a placeholder

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