What connects this song
Credits it shares with other songs, each from a cited source. Tap a number or a name.
Released on Island, also Mr. Brightside (The Killers), Somebody Told Me (The Killers) and Take Me to Church (Hozier)
Written by Bill Withers, also Ain’t No Sunshine (Bill Withers), No Diggity (Blackstreet) and Lovely Day (Bill Withers)
Part of Sheffield Steel, also Many Rivers To Cross, Talking Back To The Night and Sweet Little Woman
Written by Melvin Dunlap, also Railroad Man (Bill Withers)
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
Bill Withers wrote 89 songs on fono
Bill Withers’s most frequent co-writer is Stanley McKenny (5 songs together)
Bill Withers first appears on fono in 1971, 11 years before this song
Melvin Dunlap first appears on fono in 1974, 8 years before this song
Credits
All 11 credits
- Written by
- Bill Withers and Melvin Dunlap
- Performed by
- Barry Reynolds, Joe Cocker, Lowell “Sly” Dunbar, Mikey Chung, Robert “Robbie” Shakespeare, Uziah “Sticky” Thompson and Wally Badarou
- Part of
- Sheffield Steel
- Released on
- Island
- Written by
- Bill Withers and Melvin Dunlap
- Performed by
- Barry Reynolds, Joe Cocker, Lowell “Sly” Dunbar, Mikey Chung, Robert “Robbie” Shakespeare, Uziah “Sticky” Thompson and Wally Badarou
- Part of
- Sheffield Steel
- Released on
- Island
Connected by credits
Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.
Same writer: Bill Withers
Same writer: Melvin Dunlap
Same label: Island
Same release: Sheffield Steel
Same writer: Bill Withers
Same label: Island
Same release: Sheffield Steel
Same writer: Bill Withers
Elsewhere
Sources (12)
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1MusicBrainz Ruby Lee was performed by Barry Reynolds
Ruby Lee was performed by Barry Reynolds
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
2MusicBrainz Ruby Lee was performed by Joe Cocker
3MusicBrainz Ruby Lee was performed by Lowell “Sly” Dunbar
Ruby Lee was performed by Lowell “Sly” Dunbar
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
4MusicBrainz Ruby Lee was performed by Mikey Chung
5MusicBrainz Ruby Lee was performed by Robert “Robbie” Shakespeare
Ruby Lee was performed by Robert “Robbie” Shakespeare
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
6MusicBrainz Ruby Lee was performed by Uziah “Sticky” Thompson
Ruby Lee was performed by Uziah “Sticky” Thompson
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
7MusicBrainz Ruby Lee was performed by Wally Badarou
8MusicBrainz Ruby Lee was written by Bill Withers
9MusicBrainz Ruby Lee was written by Melvin Dunlap
10MusicBrainz Ruby Lee is part of the release Sheffield Steel
Ruby Lee is part of the release Sheffield Steel
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
11MusicBrainz Island is the label of the song Ruby Lee
Island is the label of the song Ruby Lee
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
12MusicBrainz Ruby Lee was released on 1982-05-22