"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" | ||||
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Single by Stevie Wonder | ||||
from the album Talking Book | ||||
B-side | "Tuesday Heartbreak" | |||
Released | March 1973 | |||
Recorded | 1972 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 2:58 | |||
Label | Tamla | |||
Songwriter(s) | Stevie Wonder | |||
Producer(s) | Stevie Wonder | |||
Stevie Wonder singles chronology | ||||
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Official audio | ||||
"You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" on YouTube |
"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 Year. [4] 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 albums chart for three weeks. [4]
Rolling Stone ranks the song at number 183 on their list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". [5] Billboard called it "a soft, haunting ballad with outstanding electric piano runs and outstanding production work." [6]
The first two lines of the song are sung, not by Wonder, but by Jim Gilstrap; Lani Groves sings the next two. [7] 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 (1982).
Cash Box said that Wonder "changes the pace [from ' Superstition'] and delivers a stirring ballad performance that is also certain to go gold instantly." [8] Record World said that the "tune that's been covered many times is done best by the originator." [9]
Source: Talking Book, Tamla: T 319L, October 27, 1972 (album cover)
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom ( BPI) [18] | Silver | 200,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
Is there a lovelier, more embracing description of timeless romance than Wonder's entrance in this 1973 soul-pop classic...
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Single by Stevie Wonder | ||||
from the album Talking Book | ||||
B-side | "Tuesday Heartbreak" | |||
Released | March 1973 | |||
Recorded | 1972 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 2:58 | |||
Label | Tamla | |||
Songwriter(s) | Stevie Wonder | |||
Producer(s) | Stevie Wonder | |||
Stevie Wonder singles chronology | ||||
| ||||
Official audio | ||||
"You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" on YouTube |
"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 Year. [4] 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 albums chart for three weeks. [4]
Rolling Stone ranks the song at number 183 on their list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". [5] Billboard called it "a soft, haunting ballad with outstanding electric piano runs and outstanding production work." [6]
The first two lines of the song are sung, not by Wonder, but by Jim Gilstrap; Lani Groves sings the next two. [7] 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 (1982).
Cash Box said that Wonder "changes the pace [from ' Superstition'] and delivers a stirring ballad performance that is also certain to go gold instantly." [8] Record World said that the "tune that's been covered many times is done best by the originator." [9]
Source: Talking Book, Tamla: T 319L, October 27, 1972 (album cover)
Weekly charts
|
Year-end charts
|
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom ( BPI) [18] | Silver | 200,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
Is there a lovelier, more embracing description of timeless romance than Wonder's entrance in this 1973 soul-pop classic...