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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_of_Your_Love

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_My_Sunshine

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“Sunshine of Your Love” is a 1967 song by the British rock band Cream in December 1967. It is one of Cream’s best known and most popular songs.

“Sunshine of Your Love” began as a bass phrase or riff developed by Cream bassist Jack Bruce. Bruce tended to write songs with lyricist Pete Brown during the night as that was the only time they had to spare within the band’s tour schedule. In 2009, Bruce’s biographer, Harry Shapiro, wrote that “after one particularly difficult night” they were struggling to create something, when Bruce played “a riff of syncopated eighth notes all on the offbeat, almost in a fit of desperation”, while Brown was staring out the window. Brown then got the line “It’s getting near dawn and lights close their tired eyes”, which is used in the first verse.

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“You Are My Sunshine” is an American standard of old-time and country music.

Written and recorded as early as 1939, the song was first published and copyrighted in 1940 by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell. Davis went on to be governor of Louisiana from 1944 to 1948 and again from 1960 to 1964, and used the song for his election campaign In 1977, the Louisiana State Legislature decreed “You Are My Sunshine” the state song in honor of Davis.

Its original writer is disputed. According to a November 1990 article by Theodore Pappas, in Chronicles Magazine, the true writer of the song was Oliver Hood. He asserts that Davis never actually claimed authorship because he bought the song, along with all the rights, from Paul Rice before copyrighting and publishing.

A newspaper article in the Shreveport Times related, “On a day in 1939—no one seems to remember the exact date—Charles Mitchell and Jimmie Davis called the station KWKH to see Paul Rice (who was playing there at the time). Paul’s wife was in the hospital and he needed cash to pay her bills. He sold ‘Sunshine’ to Davis and Mitchell for $35. Each put in $17.50.” Paul Rice said, “I wrote ‘You Are My Sunshine’ in 1937. Where I got the idea for it, a girl over in South Carolina wrote me this long letter—it was long about seventeen pages. And she was talking about how I was her sunshine. I got the idea for the song and put a tune to it.”

According to Rice, “At least 20 people claimed to have written ‘You Are My Sunshine’. I had a gal write me from California that she wrote it.”

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Sunshine Of Your Love

You Are My Sunshine

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