“Lean On Me” is from Club Nouveau’s 1987 album “Life, Love and Pain” and peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was written and recorded by Bill Withers in 1972 and also went to #1. Bill Withers took home a Grammy in 1987 for the Club Nouveau version as the writer for the “Best R&B Song.” Bill Withers wrote the song about his childhood, growing up in the coal mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia.