You Are the Sunshine of My Life

"You Are the Sunshine of My Life"
Single by Stevie Wonder
from the album Talking Book
B-side "Tuesday Heartbreak"
Released March 1973
Format 7" 45 RPM
Recorded 1972
Genre
Length 2:58
Label Tamla
Songwriter(s) Stevie Wonder
Producer(s) Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder singles chronology
"Superstition"
(1972)		 "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"
(1973)		 "Higher Ground"
(1973)

"Superstition"
(1972)		 "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"
(1973)		 "Higher Ground"
(1973)

"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.[1] 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 Year.[2] This song was the second single (following "Superstition") released from the 1972 album entitled Talking Book, which stayed at number one on the R&B charts for three weeks.[2]

Rolling Stone ranked the song number 287 on their list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".[3]

The first two lines of the song are sung, not by Wonder, but by Jim Gilstrap; Lani Groves sings the next two.[4] Gilstrap and Groves, together with Gloria Barley, also provide backing vocals. The single version of the song differs from the album version with the addition of horns to the mix; this version is also included in the greatest hits compilation album Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I.

Personnel

Source: Talking Book, Tamla: T 319L, October 27, 1972 (album cover)

Chart performance

In 2016, Jack White performed an alternative rock version the song with The Muppets for the series finale of The Muppets.[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–2001. Record Research. p. 262.
  2. 1 2 Hogan, Ed. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (song review), AllMusic.com.
  3. ↑ "287. Stevie Wonder, 'You Are the Sunshine of My Life'", 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, Rolling Stone, April 7, 2011.
  4. ↑ Bronson, Fred (2003). The Billboard Book of Number One Hits: Updated and Expanded 5th Edition. Random House Digital, Inc. p. 333.
  5. 1 2 Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (doc)|format= requires |url= (help). Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  6. ↑ Canada, Library and Archives (July 17, 2013). "Image : RPM Weekly". bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
  7. ↑ "NZ Listener chart summary". Flavour of New Zealand. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 21, 2016. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  9. ↑ http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.100214&type=2&interval=24&PHPSESSID=dtlhqtcdftn9t40n27r4hds2h0
  10. ↑ "Top 100 Hits of 1973/Top 100 Songs of 1973". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  11. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 11, 2015. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
  12. ↑ Blistein, Jon (March 1, 2016), "See Jack White Sing 'You Are the Sunshine of My Life' With the Muppets". Retrieved March 29, 2017.


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