Automatically Sunshine

"Automatically Sunshine"
Single by The Supremes
from the album Floy Joy
B-side"Precious Little Things"
ReleasedApril 11, 1972
Recorded1972, Hitsville U.S.A.
GenrePop, soul
Length2:41 (single/album version)
LabelMotown
Songwriter(s)Smokey Robinson
Producer(s)Smokey Robinson
The Supremes singles chronology
"Floy Joy"
(1972)
"Automatically Sunshine"
(1972)
"Without the One You Love"
(1972)
Floy Joy track listing
9 tracks
Side one
  1. "Your Wonderful, Sweet Sweet Love"
  2. "Floy Joy"
  3. "A Heart Like Mine"
  4. "Over and Over"
  5. "Precious Little Things"
Side two
  1. "Now The Bitter, Now The Sweet"
  2. "Automatically Sunshine"
  3. "The Wisdom of Time"
  4. "Oh Be My Love"

"Automatically Sunshine" is a song written by Smokey Robinson and released as a single by Motown singing group The Supremes as the second single from their popular album Floy Joy in 1972.

The single featured Jean Terrell and original Supreme Mary Wilson sharing lead vocals on the song. Floy Joy was one of the group's final albums recorded at Motown's famed Detroit studio, Hitsville U.S.A. On the US soul chart, "Automatically Sunshine" reached number twenty-one and was the Supremes' final top 40 US hit for four years peaking at number thirty-seven on the Billboard Hot 100,[1] while it became the group's third consecutive top-ten single on the UK Singles Chart peaking at number ten.

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 558.