Bring Me Sunshine

"Bring Me Sunshine"
"Bring Me Sunshine" BBC CD cover
Song
Written1966
Composer(s)Arthur Kent
Lyricist(s)Sylvia Dee

"Bring Me Sunshine" is a song written in 1966 by the composer Arthur Kent, with lyrics by Sylvia Dee.[1] It was first recorded by The Mills Brothers in 1968, on their album My Shy Violet.[2] In the UK, the song is associated with the popular comedy duo Morecambe & Wise, after it was adopted as their signature tune in their second series for the BBC in 1969.[3]

  1. ^ Derek B. Scott, Sounds of the metropolis: the nineteenth-century popular music revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna, Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN 0-19-530946-4, ISBN 978-0-19-530946-1, 304 pages (page 7)
  2. ^ "Bring Me Sunshine", SecondhandSongs.com. Retrieved 29 April 2019
  3. ^ Gary Morecambe, You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone: The Life and Work of Eric Morecambe, Publisher HarperCollins UK, 2009, ISBN 0-00-734367-1, ISBN 978-0-00-734367-6, 256 pages (page)