| "Sunshine on My Shoulders" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Side A of 1974 US single release | ||||
| Single by John Denver | ||||
| from the album Poems, Prayers & Promises | ||||
| A-side | "I'd Rather Be a Cowboy" (original) | |||
| B-side | "Around and Around" (reissue) | |||
| Released | May 1973 (original) October 22, 1973 (reissue) | |||
| Recorded | 1971 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 3:18 (Single version) 5:12 (Album version) | |||
| Label | RCA Records | |||
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| Producer(s) | Milt Okun | |||
| John Denver singles chronology | ||||
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"Sunshine on My Shoulders" (sometimes titled simply "Sunshine") is a song recorded and co-written by American singer-songwriter John Denver. It was originally released as an album track on 1971's Poems, Prayers & Promises and later, as a single in 1973. It went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S. in early 1974.
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And while it's kind of a cynical move to add overdubbed strings to an acoustic folk song that you're trying to get onto the radio...
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