You Are the Sunshine of My Life

"You Are the Sunshine of My Life"
"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	Progressive soul; pop;
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.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[2]

Rolling Stone ranks the song at number 183 on their list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".^[3] Billboard called it "a soft, haunting ballad with outstanding electric piano runs and outstanding production work."^[4]

Background[edit]

The first two lines of the song are sung, not by Wonder, but by Jim Gilstrap; Lani Groves sings the next two.^[5] 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).

Reception[edit]

Cash Box said that Wonder "changes the pace [from 'Superstition'] and delivers a stirring ballad performance that is also certain to go gold instantly."^[6] Record World said that the "tune that's been covered many times is done best by the originator."^[7]

Personnel[edit]

Source: Talking Book, Tamla: T 319L, October 27, 1972 (album cover)

Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, Fender Rhodes, drums
Jim Gilstrap – first lead vocal, background vocal
Lani Groves – second lead vocal, background vocal
Gloria Barley – background vocal
Scott Edwards – electric bass
Daniel Ben Zebulon – congas
unknown — horns

Chart performance[edit]

Weekly charts[edit]

Chart (1973)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[8]	10
Canada RPM Top Singles	5
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary^[9]	9
Germany	42
Ireland	23
New Zealand^[10]	8
UK Singles Chart	7
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	1
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	1
U.S. Billboard R&B	3
U.S. Cash Box Top 100^[11]	1

Year-end charts[edit]

Chart (1973)	Rank
Australia ^[8]	74
Canada ^[12]	64
U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[13]	19
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening^[14]	9
U.S. Cash Box^[15]	59

Certifications[edit]


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)^[16]	Silver	200,000
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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