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"You Are My Sunshine" is an American standard of old-time and country music and the state song of Louisiana. Its original writer is disputed. Its original writer is disputed. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] According to the performance rights organization BMI , by the year 2000 the song had been recorded by over 350 artists and translated into 30 languages.
In 2021, Louisiana made "You Are My Sunshine" their only official state song by removing the less-popular "Give Me Louisiana". "You Are My Sunshine" is so beloved by Louisiana residents that many of them, including state legislators, were unaware that a second official song existed prior to the proposed removal.
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" is a 1973 single released by Stevie Wonder. The song became Wonder's third number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and his first number-one on the Easy Listening chart. [3] It won Wonder a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and was nominated for both Record of the Year and Song of the ...
The song was The Statler Brothers' twenty-seventh country hit and the first of four number ones on the country chart, as well as the group's only number one with original tenor Lew DeWitt. The single stayed at number one for two weeks and spent a total of eleven weeks on the country chart. [1]
[2] [3] It was the only official Louisiana state song from 1970 to 1976. In 1977, You Are My Sunshine was added as a second official state song. [4] [5] "Give Me Louisiana" was removed as an official state song in 2021 in the same bill where "Southern Nights" by Allen Toussaint was added as the state cultural song. [6] [7]
In 1999, "You Are My Sunshine" was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award, and the Recording Industry Association of America named it one of the Songs of the Century. "You Are My Sunshine" was ranked in 2003 as No. 73 on CMT's 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music.
Hope you feel alright when you're in her (This fate, rewrite) I found a good boy and he's on my side (Deep breaths, tight chest) You're just my eternal sunshine, sunshine (Life, death, rewind) [Outro]
Richard Berry and the Pharaohs recorded and released the song as the B-side to his cover of "You Are My Sunshine" on Flip Records in 1957. [8] It became a minor regional hit, selling 130,000 copies. It was re-released as an A-side, and when the group toured the Pacific Northwest, several local R&B bands began to adopt the song and established ...