50+ Music<p>"Lovely Day" is a song by American <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/soul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>soul</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RAndB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RAndB</span></a> singer <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BillWithers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BillWithers</span></a>. Written by Withers and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SkipScarborough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SkipScarborough</span></a>, it was released on December 21, 1977, and appears on Withers's sixth album, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Menagerie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Menagerie</span></a> (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 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RollingStone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RollingStone</span></a>'s "Top 500 Best Songs of All Time" in 2021. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E0L7kzW0sk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=2E0L7kzW0sk</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>