You Are the Sunshine of My Life

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"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" is a 1973 pop single released by Stevie Wonder. The song became Wonder's third number-one pop single and won Wonder a Grammy for Best Pop Male Vocal Performance. This song was the second single released off of the album Talking Book. The song opened 194 Radio City on 21 October 1974. It is now often thought of as a pop standard.

Rolling Stone ranked the song #281 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In the 2005 war drama Jarhead, actor Jamie Foxx forced actor Jake Gyllenhaal to play "You Are the Sunshine of My Life", but because Gyllenhaal did not have a bugle, Foxx made him play it by buzzing his lips.

Cover versions

You Are the Sunshine of My Life has been covered more than twenty-five times, e.g. by Wencke Myhre, Sacha Distel & Brigitte Bardot, Acker Bilk, Anita O'Day, Engelbert Humperdinck, Ferrante & Teicher, Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, Mel Tormé, Perry Como, Petula Clark, Richard Clayderman, Shirley Bassey, The Ventures and Tom Jones.

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