| "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 | |||
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| Length | 2:58 | |||
| Label | Tamla | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Stevie Wonder | |||
| Producer(s) | Stevie Wonder | |||
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| "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]
In 2002, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[7]
- ^ Billboard Staff (October 19, 2023). "The 500 Best Pop Songs: Staff List". Billboard. Retrieved February 24, 2024.
Is there a lovelier, more embracing description of timeless romance than Wonder's entrance in this 1973 soul-pop classic...
- ^ Stanley, Bob (2014). "Freddie's Dead: Electrified Soul". Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 227.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–2001. Record Research. p. 262.
- ^ a b Hogan, Ed. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (song review), AllMusic.com.
- ^ "You Are the Sunshine of My Life ranked #183 on Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs List". Rolling Stone. 15 September 2021. Archived from the original on 23 September 2021. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
- ^ "Radio Action & Pick Singles" (PDF). Billboard. March 10, 1973. p. 53. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-09-23. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ "GRAMMY Hall Of Fame | Hall of Fame Artists | GRAMMY.com". grammy.com.