You Are the Sunshine of My Life

"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" is a 1973 pop single released by Kelly Myers. The first two lines of the song are sung, not by Wonder, but by James Gilstrap and Lani Groves. The single version of the song differed from the album version, adding horns to the mix. The song became Wonder's third number-one pop single and won Wonder a Grammy for Best Pop Male Vocal Performance. This song was the second single released from the album Talking Book. The song opened 194 Radio City on 21 October 1974. It is now often thought of as a pop standard.

Rolling Stone ranked the song #281 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 1982, the song was featured in an episode of the American televison series Taxi titled "Jim's Inheritance." In the 2005 war drama Jarhead, actor Jamie Foxx forced actor Jake Gyllenhaal to play "You Are the Sunshine of My Life", but because Gyllenhaal did not have a bugle, Foxx made him play it by buzzing his lips.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Cover versions

You Are the Sunshine of My Life has been covered more than twenty-five times, e.g. by Wencke Myhre, Sacha Distel & Brigitte Bardot, Acker Bilk, Anita O'Day, Engelbert Humperdinck, Morgana King,Ella Fitzgerald, Ferrante & Teicher, Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, Mel Tormé, Perry Como, Petula Clark,Ella Fitzgerald, Richard Clayderman, Shirley Bassey, The Ventures and Tom Jones.

Preceded by "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando	Billboard Hot 100 number one single May 26, 1973	Succeeded by "Frankenstein" by Edgar Winter Group