'Just The Two Of Us' Songwriter Found His Sound In Solitude
William Salter, who co-wrote the popular love song, told his granddaughter that the radio kept him company during a lonely childhood. When he later found the bass, he said, "I found myself."
by Abe Selby
Feb 12, 2021
2 minutes
William Salter helped write one of America's most iconic love songs.
He collaborated with Bill Withers and Ralph MacDonald on "Just the Two of Us," performed by Grover Washington Jr. on his album Winelight in 1980.
Salter, now 84, spoke with his 25-year-old granddaughter Jada Salter for a remote StoryCorps conversation about how he
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