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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.
Morgane Stapleton (pronounced "Morgan"; née Hayes; born January 25, 1983) is an American singer-songwriter and the wife of Chris Stapleton. [1] [2] She performs background, harmony and duet vocals in her husband's band, was instrumental in the creation of his debut album Traveller, and has contributed to all of his subsequent projects, including co-producing his fifth album Higher.
"You Are My Sunshine" was ranked in 2003 as No. 73 on CMT's 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music. Virginia Shehee, a Shreveport businesswoman , philanthropist , and state senator , introduced legislation to designate "You Are My Sunshine" as the official state song. [ 9 ]
In the scene where Wood sings "You Are My Sunshine" to the girl in the tree house, it was originally going to be a different song which according to director Steve Miner, would have been very expensive to use, whereas the song used in the film was already freely available in the public domain. The film was completed for around $20 million. [14]
Track listing: Lovin' Place / You Are My Sunshine / You've Been Talkin' 'Bout Me Baby / Where Do You Go To Go Away / Big Grey City / Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out / What-cha Gonna Do / I Used To Live Here / The Sunny Song / St. Louis Is A Long Way Away / Little Poppa / O Freedom; The Many Faces of Gale Garnett (1965)
"Thank You World" 31 — 45 — Thank You World "Susan When She Tried" 15 — 18 — Sons of the Motherland: 1975 "All American Girl" 31 — 36 — "I'll Go to My Grave Loving You" 3 93 1 — The Best of the Statler Bros. 1976 "How Great Thou Art" 39 — 29 — Holy Bible New Testament "Your Picture in the Paper" 13 — 19 — Harold, Lew, Phil ...
The O'Daniel of the movie used "You Are My Sunshine" as his theme song (which was originally recorded by singer and Governor of Louisiana James Houston "Jimmie" Davis [38]), and Homer Stokes, as the challenger to the incumbent O'Daniel, portrays himself as the "reform candidate", using a broom as a prop.
Uless Charles Mitchell [1] (April 1, 1904 – December 27, 1972) was a songwriter, best known as a collaborator with Jimmie Davis.Davis's best-known composition, "You Are My Sunshine", published in 1939 was co-written by Mitchell.