Country Sunshine
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| "Country Sunshine" | ||
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| Single by Dottie West | ||
| from the album Country Sunshine | ||
| Released | 1973 | |
| Genre | Country, Pop | |
| Length | 2:05 | |
| Label | RCA Records | |
| Writer(s) | Dottie West | |
| Chart positions | ||
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#2 U.S. Country |
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"Country Sunshine" is the name of a popular Country Music song, made popular by Dottie West in 1973.
The song "Country Sunshine" had originally been released for a commercial for the Coca Cola company. A year before, Dottie West had written a song "Country Girl" to be in one of their commercials. The song ultimatley went on to become a top twenty Country hit for west. The Coca Cola company had been wanting to make a series of "Country-themed" commercials. They thought Dottie West would be the best choice to write songs for these new commercials. The second song she wrote for the company was called "Country Sunshine". This time, West wrote the song especially for the company. Not before too long, the company released the song on of their Country commercials and the commercial became a big success. Everyone seemed to like the song so much that, Dottie decided to record the song and release it as a single.
In 1973, West released "Country Sunshine" to the Country Music and Pop Music charts. The song ultimately became one of West's biggest hits. The song just missed topping the Country Music charts (reaching #2) and went to the Pop Top 50. The song proved success for West in both careers. Because of the song's success in the commercial, West was given a Clio award for writing it in 1974. "Country Sunshine" became one of Dottie's biggest hits of all time. After the success of the song, she has been nicknamed The Country Sunshine.
Most recently, a cover version of the song by a karaoke company proved successful.
