"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 | |||
Stevie Wonder singles chronology | ||||
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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.[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]
Is there a lovelier, more embracing description of timeless romance than Wonder's entrance in this 1973 soul-pop classic...