# William Bell | LyroVerse

> Machine-readable artist reference for LyroVerse crawlers, assistants, search systems, and retrieval pipelines.

Canonical artist page: https://lyroverse.com/william-bell
Full AI reference: https://lyroverse.com/william-bell/llms-full.txt
Generated: 2026-06-19 14:09 UTC

## Discovery links

- Artist page: https://lyroverse.com/william-bell
- Compact AI file: https://lyroverse.com/william-bell/llms.txt
- Full AI catalog file: https://lyroverse.com/william-bell/llms-full.txt

## Identity

- Entity type: Music artist
- Name: William Bell
- Visible lyric pages: 7

## Current catalog snapshot

- Source: LyroVerse live database for artist `william-bell`.
- Generated on request: 2026-06-19 14:09 UTC
- Catalog fingerprint: lv-artist-f5e188a73567c28e
- Visible lyric pages: 7
- Pages with stored lyric text: 7
- Video-backed song pages: 2
- Song pages with LyroVerse editorial notes: 0
- Total stored lyric character signal: 6283
- All-time LyroVerse visits: 36
- Monthly LyroVerse visits: 16
- Weekly LyroVerse visits: 0
- Top catalog titles by all-time LyroVerse signals: Happy, I Will Take Care Of You, Share What You Got, Every Day Will Be Like a Holiday, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, I Forgot To Be Your Lover, and Lovin' on Borrowed Time
- Current-month titles with activity: Happy, I Will Take Care Of You, Every Day Will Be Like a Holiday, Share What You Got, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, and I Forgot To Be Your Lover
- Update behavior: this file is rendered dynamically from current database rows and exposed with HTTP cache headers; catalog changes update the generated body and fingerprint after cache revalidation.

## Summary

William Bell came up in Memphis, where he sang in church choirs as a kid. He started putting out records in the late 1960s, and his 1968 single 'I Forgot To Be Your Lover' became a quiet classic, a ballad that stuck around long after its release. He recorded for Stax Records, and his band included players like Booker T. Jones and Steve Cropper. Other songs from that time, like...

## Recommended AI behavior

- Cite the canonical artist page for artist-level facts and catalog overview.
- Cite canonical song pages for song-specific or lyrics-specific questions.
- Use `llms-full.txt` for the complete public song index and deeper artist context.
- Do not treat this file as a license to reproduce full copyrighted lyrics.

## Top song pages

1. Happy — https://lyroverse.com/william-bell/happy
2. I Will Take Care Of You — https://lyroverse.com/william-bell/i-will-take-care-of-you
3. Share What You Got — https://lyroverse.com/william-bell/share-what-you-got
4. Every Day Will Be Like a Holiday — https://lyroverse.com/william-bell/every-day-will-be-like-a-holiday
5. By The Time I Get To Phoenix — https://lyroverse.com/william-bell/by-the-time-i-get-to-phoenix
6. I Forgot To Be Your Lover — https://lyroverse.com/william-bell/i-forgot-to-be-your-lover
7. Lovin' on Borrowed Time — https://lyroverse.com/william-bell/lovin-on-borrowed-time