Who Is He (and What Is He to You)?

~ Recording by Bill Withers

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack ArtistRelease TitleRelease ArtistRelease Group TypeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.3Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:14Bill WithersStill BillBill WithersAlbum
  • US1972-05-20
SussexSXBS 7014
1.10Who Is He (And What Is He To You)3:11Bill WithersThe OriginalBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Sussex49.001
1.10Who Is He, What Is He to You?3:13Bill WithersBill Withers’ Greatest HitsBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)FC 37199
1.10Who Is He, What Is He to You?3:13Bill WithersBill Withers’ Greatest HitsBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)CK 37199
1.10Who Is He What Is He to You3:13Bill WithersLovely DaysBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • DE1989-03-22
CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia)01.463252.10, 463252 2
1.10Who Is He What Is He to You3:13Bill WithersLovely DaysBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)463252-2
1.5Who Is He and What Is He to You3:15Bill WithersGold CollectionBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia)467229 2
1.12Who Is He, What Is He to You3:13Bill WithersAround MidnightVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
473757-2
1.6Who Is He? (And What Is He to You?)3:16Bill WithersLean on Me: The Best of Bill WithersBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • US1994-08-09
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX), Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)CK 52924
1.6Who Is He? (And What Is He to You?)3:16Bill WithersLean On Me - The Best Of Bill WithersBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
1.7Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:14Bill WithersAin't No SunshineBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • XE1997-09-08
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)COL 985506 2
1.5Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:12Bill WithersJackie Brown: Music From The Miramax Motion PictureVarious ArtistsAlbum + Soundtrack
  • US1997-12-09
Maverick (WMG subsidiary, founded by Madonna, Veronica "Ronnie" Dashev, and Frederick DeMann)9 46841-2
1.5Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:12Bill WithersJackie Brown: Music From The Miramax Motion PictureVarious ArtistsAlbum + Soundtrack
  • GB1997-12-09
Maverick (WMG subsidiary, founded by Madonna, Veronica "Ronnie" Dashev, and Frederick DeMann)
1.5Who Is He (And What Is He to You?)3:12Bill WithersJackie BrownVarious ArtistsAlbum + Soundtrack
Maverick (WMG subsidiary, founded by Madonna, Veronica "Ronnie" Dashev, and Frederick DeMann)CDW 46841
1.5Who Is He (and What Is He to You?)3:12Bill WithersJackie Brown: Music From the Miramax Motion PictureVarious ArtistsAlbum + Soundtrack
A Band Apart Records (Offshoot of Quentin Tarantino's film production company A Band Apart), Maverick (WMG subsidiary, founded by Madonna, Veronica "Ronnie" Dashev, and Frederick DeMann), Warner Music Australia (AU subsidiary of Warner Music International since 1988)9362468412
1.5Who Is He (and What Is He to You?)3:12Bill WithersJackie Brown: Music From the Miramax Motion PictureVarious ArtistsAlbum + Soundtrack
Maverick (WMG subsidiary, founded by Madonna, Veronica "Ronnie" Dashev, and Frederick DeMann), A Band Apart Records (Offshoot of Quentin Tarantino's film production company A Band Apart)9362-46841-2
1.5Who Is He (And What Is He To You?)3:12Bill WithersNot with that Clown: Great Songs of Sexual JealousyVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Mushroom RecordsMUSH33039.2
1.5Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:12Bill WithersJackie BrownVarious ArtistsAlbum + Soundtrack
  • US1998-02-03
Maverick (WMG subsidiary, founded by Madonna, Veronica "Ronnie" Dashev, and Frederick DeMann)9 46841-1
1.7Who Is He and What Is He to You3:13Bill WithersBlaxploitation, Volume 4: Harlem HustleVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB1998-05-04
Global TelevisionRADCD92
1.8Who Is He3:12Bill WithersThe Best of: Lovely DayBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • US1998-10-12
1.10Who Is He, What Is He to You?3:13Bill WithersBill Withers’ Greatest Hits (Gold CD)Bill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)491719 6
1.7Who Is He? (And What Is He to You?)3:11Bill WithersSimply the BestBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)493431 2, COL 493431 2
1.22Who Is He (And What Is He to You?)3:08Bill WithersTarantinomaniaVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Invisible HalahupHAL235
1.13Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:12Bill WithersThe Best of Bill Withers: Lean on MeBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • US2000-05-30
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX), Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)CK 63852
1.1Who Is He (And What Is He to You)3:13Bill WithersThe Ultimate Bill Withers CollectionBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • NL2000-10-21
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX), Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)500604 2
1.13Who Is She3:12Bill WithersThe Best of Bill Withers: Lean on MeBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • -2000
1.1Who Is He (And What Is He to You?)3:14Bill WithersLazy AfternoonVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Sony Music Entertainment (Holland) B.V. (Sony Music Entertainment's NL subsidiary until 2004)LSP 986564 2
1.2Who Is He (And What Is He to You?)3:12Bill WithersSuper HitsBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)504734 2
1.2Who Is He (And What Is He to You?)3:12Bill WithersSuper HitsBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • -2001
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX), Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)
2.7Who Is He3:14Bill WithersThe Original Gangsters: Lets Go to WorkVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Beechwood Music Ltd.MOVICD01
2.13Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:15Bill WithersThe Very Best of Billy Paul & Bill WithersBilly Paul & Bill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • BE2002-08-22
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)757174
2.10Who Is He and What Is He to You?3:14Bill WithersThe Sound of the City: Los AngelesVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2002-09-02
EMI (EMI Records, since 1972)7243 539532 2 5
1.12Who Is He?3:12Bill WithersThe Ultimate Gangster Movie SoundtrackVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2002-11-16
Telstar TVTTVCD3306
1.3Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:13Bill WithersStill BillBill WithersAlbum
  • US2003-01-28
Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)508609 2
1.3Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:13Bill WithersStill BillBill WithersAlbum
  • GB2003-03-03
Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)508609 2
1.15Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:13Bill WithersJust as I Am / Still BillBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Raven Records (Australian mainly reissue)RVCD-160
1.5Who Is He (And What Is He To You)3:14Bill WithersJust The Two Of Us - BestBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Phono Music Zounds (German Label releasing digitally remastered "Best Of CDs" within the ZOUNDS Best Of Series.)2700020122 B
1.15Who Is He? And What Is He to You?3:11Bill WithersSuperbadVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2004-04-12
Warner DanceWSMCD165
1.8Who is He (And What Is He To You)3:12Bill WithersOriginal HitsBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Sony Music Media
1.9Who Is He3:13Bill WithersThe Best Music From the Films of Tarantino (Esquire Magazine)Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
WSMSPCD041
1.7Who Is He? (And What Is He to You?)3:12Bill WithersThe Best of the Soul ManBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)
2.5Who Is He? (And What Is He to You?)3:12Bill WithersEdel & Starck 3Various ArtistsAlbum + Soundtrack
  • DE2005-01-31
Sony Music MediaSMM 519534 2
1.9Who Is He (What Is He to You)3:15Bill WithersBody & Soul: Love UndercoverVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • -2005
Time–Life MusicTL BAS/15
1.7Who Is He (And What Is He to You?)3:13Bill WithersLovely Day: The Very Best of Bill WithersBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)520146 2
1.7Who Is He (and What Is He to You)?3:13Bill WithersLovely Day: The Very Best of Bill WithersBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)520146 2
1.2Who Is He? (And What Is He for You?)3:14Bill WithersDISCOinferno: FunkyVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • IT2006-02-24
Warner Strategic Marketing Italy5051011271823
1.7Who Is He (and What Is He to You)?3:13Bill WithersLovely Day: The Very Best of Bill WithersBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2006-07-24
Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Aug 5, 2004 - Oct 1, 2008)82876845522
1.8Who Is He (And What Is He to You?)3:10Bill WithersAll About FunkVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Compact Disc Club
1.6Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:12Bill WithersMastercuts Gold: Best of Bill WithersBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • DE2007-02-02
Pinnacle (distributor & label)
4.8Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:12Bill Withers100 Film ClassicsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Universal Music (plain logo: “Universal Music”)532.292-7
4.13Who Is He and What Is He to You3:15Bill WithersLes Quatre Plus Grandes Légendes de la SoulBilly Paul & Bill WithersAlbum + Compilation
1.6Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:12Bill WithersMastercuts Gold: Best of Bill WithersBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Apace MusicMCUTGCD02
1.8Who Is He (And What Is He to You?)3:15Bill WithersThis Is Funk: The Juiciest Collection of Pure Funk GroovesVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Metro Triples (UK triple-disc reissue/compilation imprint, METRTCD cat prefix)METRTCD832
1.11Who Is He? (And What Is He to You)3:13Bill WithersAin't No Sunshine: The Best OfBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Music Club DeluxeMCDLX078
1.3Who Is He (and What Is He to You)?3:13Bill WithersStill BillBill WithersAlbum
  • US2009-12-01
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX), Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)CK 62184
1.8Who Is He? (And What Is He to You?)3:10Bill WithersLovely Day: The Best Of Bill WithersBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • -2009
1.3Who Is He (And What Is He To You)?3:12Bill WithersHappy Days Vol 2Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • -2010
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)
2.3Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:13Bill WithersBill Withers: The Complete Sussex and Columbia AlbumsBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • US2012-11-06
Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)
1.3Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:14Bill WithersStill BillBill WithersAlbum
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)SXBS 7014
2.3Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:13Bill WithersThe Complete Sussex and Columbia AlbumsBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment), Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)
1.9Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:14Bill WithersThe Essential Bill WithersBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • US2013-08-20
Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)88883771572
1.9Who Is He (and What Is He to You)?3:13Bill WithersThe Essential Bill WithersBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2013-08-20
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX), Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)
1.10Who Is He, What Is He to You?3:12Bill WithersBill Withers' Greatest HitsBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)
1.9Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:14Bill WithersThe Essential Bill WithersBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)88883742202
1.19Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:13Bill WithersThe Real Bill WithersBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2014-04-28
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)88843054952
1.40Who Is He (and What Is He to You)?3:13Bill WithersDowntown FunkVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2015-04-20
Ministry of Sound
2.20Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:12Bill WithersDowntown FunkVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2015-04-20
Ministry of SoundMOSCD406
1.3Who Is He (and What Is He to You)?3:14Bill WithersStill BillBill WithersAlbum
  • XW2015-04-21
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX), Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)G010003326732N
1.10Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:16Bill WithersBill Withers’ Greatest HitsBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • US2016-06-24
Mobile Fidelity Sound LabUDSACD 2155
2.10Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:16Bill WithersBill Withers’ Greatest HitsBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • US2016-06-24
Mobile Fidelity Sound LabUDSACD 2155
1.10Who Is He What Is He To You3:12Bill WithersBill Withers' Greatest Hits (Remastered on 180g vinyl)Bill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • US2016-11-16
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX), Sony Music Commercial Music Group, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab88691973661, MFSL 1-445
1.7Who Is He (And What Is He to You?)3:13Bill WithersThe Ultimate CollectionBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2017-07-27
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)
2.15Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:13Bill WithersFeel the FunkVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2017-09-27
Universal (plain logo “Universal” used by Universal Music and Universal Pictures)5379615
2.10Who Is He (And What Is He To You?)3:13Bill WithersTop 40 Bill Withers. His Ultimate Top 40 CollectionBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)8985456742
1.10Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:13Bill WithersBest of Bill WithersBill WithersAlbum + CompilationColumbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)COL 032343 2, COL 477503 2
1.10Who Is He, What Is He to You?3:13Bill WithersBill Withers’ Greatest Hits (Nice Price)Bill WithersAlbum + CompilationCBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia)CDCBS 32343
1.10Who Is He, What Is He to You?3:13Bill WithersBill Withers’ Greatest HitsBill WithersAlbum + CompilationColumbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)IDK 37199
1.10Who Is He What Is He to You3:13Bill WithersBill Withers’ Greatest Hits (Columbia House club edition 757237T)Bill WithersAlbum + CompilationColumbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)CCK 37199
1.10Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:13Bill WithersBill Withers’ Greatest HitsBill WithersAlbum + CompilationColumbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)COL 032343 2
1.4Who Is He?3:14Bill WithersLean on MeBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
1.2Who Is He (And What Is He to You?)3:14Bill WithersSuper Hits (iTunes)Bill WithersAlbum + Compilation
1.13Who Is He (and What Is He to You)?3:12Bill WithersThe Best of Bill Withers: Lean on MeBill WithersAlbum + CompilationLegacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)
Promotion
1.5Who Is He (and What Is He to You?)3:14Bill WithersJackie Brown (collector’s edition)Various ArtistsAlbum + Soundtrack
A Band Apart Records (Offshoot of Quentin Tarantino's film production company A Band Apart), The Guardian (UK newspaper)S JACKIEBROWN 04
(unknown)
1.10Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?3:13Bill WithersBill Withers' Greatest HitsBill WithersAlbum + Compilation
  • JP1987-12-02
CBS/Sony (imprint used in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia 1968–1991; also used in Spain until 1997)32DP 883
1.2Who Is He (And What Is He to You?)3:13Bill WithersAudiophile Recordings, Vol. 15Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • -2017
[no label] (Special purpose label – white labels, self-published releases and other “no label” releases)

Relationships

vocals:Bill Withers
sampled by:Free by Will Young
recording of:Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?

Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?

writer:Stanley McKenny
Bill Withers
later translated versions:Wea is ea (und wos is ea zu dia)? (Song)