"Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)"
Single by Red Box
from the album The Circle & the Square
B-side"Stinging Bee"
Released1985
GenreNew wave, synthpop
Length4:32, 6:42
LabelSire Records
Songwriter(s)Simon Toulson-Clarke
Red Box singles chronology
"Saskatchewan"
(1984)
"Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)"
(1985)
"For America"
(1986)

"Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)" is a song by British group Red Box, released in 1985 as the third single from the debut album The Circle & the Square. It was the band's highest-charting single, reaching No. 3 in the UK in October 1985.[1]

The song borrows from North American Indian rhythms.[2]

Track listing

7" single

No.TitleLength
1."Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)"4:15
2."Stinging Bee"4:36

12" single

No.TitleLength
1."Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo) (Dogmatix)"6:42
2."Stinging Bee (Catmatix)"4:38
3."Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)"4:32

Charts

Chart (1985/86) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[3] 29
Germany (Official German Charts)[4] 27
Ireland (IRMA)[5] 2
UK Singles (OCC)[6] 3

References

  1. "RED BOX - full Official Chart History - Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com.
  2. Cameron, Samuel (164). Music in the Marketplace: A social economics approach. Routledge. ISBN 9781317934738.
  3. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 247. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  4. "Red Box – Lean on Me" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts.
  5. "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Lean on Me". Irish Singles Chart.
  6. "Red Box: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
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