Ray Charles - You Are My Sunshine Lyrics

I don't recall ever hearing this rendition until last week on I believe it was the 60's Satellite survey on SiriusXM. It's now one of my faves. AWESOME!

QUESTA SI CHE E' CHOCOLATE ,BELLISSIMISSIMA X ME

I selected this as my Mom and Son dance song when my oldest married; I sang it to him all the time when he was a baby. We smiled every step of the way and got the party started for the reception. The band really got into it too as they had never been asked to do his version and performed it perfectly with their 70s style horn section. It is a treasured memory of dancing the night away.

Found this song in an antique mall on a 45 and it was wore slap out so I had to see what it sounded like. Well worth it to find and look up

To the idiot who said this is a cornball song, I am pretty jaded when it comes to corny songs, but this one has piercingly haunting lyrics. Any song can become a trite, commodified tune for a commercial, but only a great song can go from a twangy hillbilly melody (with earplugs as a necessary accessory) to the rocking rat-pack style of your daddio to a children's choir on stage in a lunchroom of your local elementary, all with equal success. Did the talking heads do a cover? Maybe they went with Stairway to Heaven instead of this corny song.

How can any punk ass bitch thumbs down this song? Must have been deprived of love or something.

"You told me once, dear, that you really loved me...." Thank you, Governor Jimmie Davis.

Yes!!! Thank you!!!

That‘s music! 😁

in 1962, when I heard this song the first time, I loved everything about it.  At 15 years old, I was a little different than my buddies and classmates..........   I like a lot of different type stuff.  "Water Boy" , one of my all time favorites, and now just seeing the movie!!! Amazing.   The commercial with the sunshine song, is wonderful, although my wife , a few years younger does not remember this song.  For years I could not find this album , and now I can listen to anything at my computer.  At 72, it still is one of my favorites.

C'è IL vELARDINIELLANO senso di riscatto sociuale e di riscossa civiled della musica afroamericana e specialmente di chi siffre sotto un velo vero di coraggio eroico di chi nel canto e con la musica dà il meglio di sè,forguando la crescita del ns.sviluppo evolutivo,avulso dalle ricche conbtraddizioni di qauesto secolo di performaces a tutto spiano di gioia e dolore dell'umana esistenxza=ALDO ZOLFINO(su Facebook)

this is the only rendition of this song that should exist.

Zack.♥ Dont ever take my sunshine away♥ My baby. My MAN!

The movie “The problem with the curv » with Clint Eastwood brought me here.

Didn't even know this existed wtf

You are my sunshine,
My only sunshine.
You make me happy
When skies are gray.
You'll never know dear
How much I love you.
Please don't take
My sunshine away.

"You Are My Sunshine" is popularly known as the state song of Louisiana, but the song has a murky history. It was made popular by Jimmie Davis, a country music singer who used it frequently in his campaign for governor of Louisiana, and it has long been claimed that he and his friend and fellow songwriter Charlie Mitchell wrote the song in 1939.

In Georgia, however, the children of mandolin player and songwriter Oliver Hood insist that their father penned the song on the back of a brown paper bag and performed it at a VFW convention in LaGrange, Georgia, in 1933. Hood regularly played with fellow musicians Riley Puckett and Paul Rice, and many people claim to have heard Puckett perform the piece in the early 1930s. There were supposedly more than 20 verses to the song, but the most popular ones are all that remain. After the original, best-known verse, the song continues:

The other night dear,
As I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you in my arms.
When I awoke, dear,
I was mistaken
And I hung my head and cried

I'll always love you
And make you happy
If you will only say the same
But if you leave me
To love another
You'll regret it all some day

You told me once, dear
You really loved me
And no one else could come between
But now you've left me
And love another
You have shattered all my dreams

Unfortunately, Hood never copyrighted his song, and in 1937 Paul Rice claimed authorship. Rice sold the rights to the song to Charlie Mitchell and Jimmie Davis in late 1939, and Davis recorded the song on February 5, 1940. His version included the lines that catapulted him to the governor's seat and made the song a Louisiana legend, as he sang it at rallies and even performed it on horseback (his horse was aptly named Sunshine):

Louisiana, my Louisiana
the place where I was borne.
White fields of cotton
green fields clover,
the best fishing
and long tall corn

The authorship of the piece may always be in dispute, but the song's lyrics are now known by children across the nation -- despite the less-than-sunny picture it paints after the first upbeat verse. "You Are My Sunshine" received renewed attention when it was featured prominently on the popular Grammy Award-winning soundtrack to the 2000 movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? The song is typical of what is now called traditional country music, with its predictable rhyming patterns, a repeating chorus, and a hit-and-miss meter that requires words to be dragged out over several notes

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My mom taught my bird to sing, "You are my sunshine, my one and only sunshine, when skies are greeeeeeyyyyy, etc. etc."

Can't seem to find the sheet music for this song. During a search, I only find the old version, not this Ray Charles version. Anyone have any suggestions?

This is Blues, Soul, R&B and a bit of jazz. From one of the true Masters of Music.

I was brought here by the Clint Eastwood movie "Trouble With the Curve"

50 years ago we heard good new music on shitty AM radios. Today we hear shitty new music on fantastic sound systems.

quite the shame, really. I remember istening to zeppelin, Chicago, cream on crappy music-room headphones, record players. but hey, you know what man? it all sounded good. hell, listening to my pop's radio parted in the driveway late at night (10:00), lowest volume. cc rider by the animals would come on. I was instructed by my big brother to run and get him, no matter where/what he was doing. got the system now, but I haven't listened to new music since the late 90's, so i'm stuck in the timewarp. but then there's jazz, a whole new universe to listen to.

Beautifully concise......and so true!

This song seems like a soundtrack while a details of a heist are presented or a makeover in a movie.

R.I.P Aretha Franklin

YOU . . .

Brother Ray can make any song into a hit. What a Genius.

Memories of my childhood

swinging my man..... simply swigging!

Thats music 👍👌✌🏾🤙rest in peace Broo 🙏🙏🙏🙏

A subtle move in the movie is that at the beginning you hear the traditional version and at the end, when everything's changed for the better, brother Ray's. Those opening bars set the tone and you know you're going on a trip.

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I agree that Humana made it to the 21st Century..that song made me start running and I am 72..thank you Humana!

Totally knocked out by this version

Patiently waiting for Michael Buble to cover this.

If one can’t feel this deep down inside your spirit man, there’s something wrong. One would have to be a soulless person to not be touched by this.

charles was born with a gift, no one could take away from him. His parents were poor and expected to doing nothing much with their lives, but god gave charles a wonderful gift, and that took him out of poverty. Could not take that away from him.

Thanks Ray for reaching deep in your soul for interpreting this ballet to make it TRUELY yours.

I'm here because of the commercial to I have to hear Ray doing this version of this song that's so funny

Simply Beautiful

I {LUV} Mr.Ray Charles He Was A Man Of {HIGH IDEA ‘S} R.I.P. BROTHA💞💝💖🥇🥇🙏🏾🙏🏾

I’m a Ray Charles fan; that’s what brought me here.

I love this song.

The commercial got me here and this is the shit! The silky voice of Ray and this young lady

So love this...

Aretha Franklin did the Female Vocals on this cut Awesome !!!!!!!!

not Aretha the Raelettes.....featuring Margie Hendrix on the solo part of the women...

That Humana commercial brought me here.

Jennifer Boddie me too! Look at the live jam...its nice too

the live is actually better....classic...

Jennifer Boddie +The Humana Commercial Brought Me Here To,🥇🥇🤗

1goldbaby yes indeedy! I recommend the live jam.

the same here

what a great voice, he grew up poor, being a sharecropper, he lost his sight, but no one could never take his good voice away from him. he's an inspiration.

Sharecropper? Lol!

Sweet Baby Ray RIP You made the world a better place.

PERFECTION!

This is the song in the Humana commercial I've been seeing on tv a lot lately

God bless brother ray......!

What a great song :D

The Commercial brought me here

Miss you Grandma Lill

I was at my neighbor's house a couple of days ago and the new Humana ad was on tv. I instantly recognized the voice but tried to think if I had ever heard this one. Strange feeling like I had known it forever but just as sure that I had never heard it. Now I get it. No I never heard it but those background singers are so familar that it made me think I knew the song.

Humana finally made a decent commercial.

My Dad used to sing this to me when I was a little girl, I had never heard the jazzed up version until that commercial.

My mom sang this song to me, too.

Humana brought me here.

wow this thread, how coincidental lmfao Humana the real mvp

Simplesmente o REI.
Ray Charles é ícone...
Viva a black music, ao jazz, viva a música de verdade...

Is that Aretha Franklin singing?

no Ms. Margie Hendrix, you probably know this by now.....lol

Thank you

Not enough words can ever do justice to describe what only the heart and soul feels hearing this rendition of "You Are My Sunshine". SUBLIME!!!  :)

He did it all! Ray climbed every musical mountain and conquered all. There'll never be another like him...

Now that's soul music and for you 35 lonely souls that gave it a thumbs down I hope you find your SUNSHINE..............

Are they nuts ???

Jackie Tyler 😽😽😽😽😽😽😽😽😻💛🔅🔆✌️✌️🌄

A commercial brought me here.

Me too. I heard this song and had to here the complete version. Great Ray Charles classic.

musicteachjw me as well!

I wish I could get it on my Spotify playlist.

Goosebumps!!!!!!

My relax!

Damn.....my baby's moving soon and told me not to follow her....so my sunshine is being taken away

MrKeepnit100 damn

Wilkerson Falquez I moved anyway for different reasons she has no idea we're in the same city.....and she won't know

Update.....we ran into each other a long talk ensued and we are picking up where we left off......wild....so she is back

Whooooa I don't want you to take....my sunshine away

...hearing this song and many more at the house on Friday nights, the smell of perch frying, card playing, and the bottle clinks of Pabst blue ribbon ................thanks mom and dad...

You are my sunshine, originally performed by governor Jimmie Davis is the state song for my homestate of Louisiana.

Tyler. He DIDNT SING IT LIKE THIS...LOL

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One of the Raelets turns in a fine solo also.

sounds like Aretha Franklin

Margie Hendrix

thanks for the info

NOT, their voices are completely different

truly a great talent. i saw ray at the forty thieves night club in bermuda in the sixtes. he was a magnetic entertainer. rest in peace..

sounds way ahead of it's time

Wito, have mom dance to this.

For Alicia Gordon and Baria Zbirak, number 2...

who is singing with ray charles, the female

alertha franklin

It is indeed Margie singing. Ray and Aretha were working for two different recording companies at the time...Aretha with Columbia, Ray with ABC-Paramount. No studio would have allowed any intermingling of stars unless both studios got either a cut of profit or future recording arrangements.

It's Margie Hendrix.

LOL! Margie Hendricks! i saw her do it with him in 1963. One of the Raelets!

There was nothing " common" about Margie Hendrix or her great voice. She died at a young age of 37 or 38. She was a great vocalist in her own right.

Margie Hendricks
Margie Hendricks had started out in the ‘50s all-girl backup band known as The Cookies, but soon added a magic touch to Ray’s 1960s recordings, counter-pointing Ray’s mischievous baritone with her own evocative, belted voice.

“There’s very little written about Margie Hendricks,” notes King, “which is pretty amazing because she had one of the most unique voices ever in American music. I think in many ways she was Ray’s Muse. He heard in her voice that church-like sound that inspired him to mix his own Blues into it and create something new. When I read the script and remembered her voice, I knew I wanted to play her because there is something very powerful and real about her.”

Margie Hendricks' attraction to Ray, and Ray’s attraction to Margie, had everything to do with the music, says King.

“Their passion for the music is what brought them together and kept them together as long as they were, but they were both reckless people back then, and when she started to drink their relationship burnt out. Yet I think he really loved her—he was a human being like the rest of us, brilliant as he was—and she was an important part of his life.”

Taylor Hackford was impressed with how King brought the role of a woman few really know so richly to life.

My dad has called me Sunshine since the moment I was born. This song is the one he dedicated to me.

My mom used to sing this song to me.

Wow how sweet thanks for sharing great to know there are still good guys around Many Blessings to you and your dad

This song was first recorded in 1939 by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell. While Davis and Mitchell are the credited songwriters of "You Are My Sunshine", Davis was never known to actually claim authorship, as he bought the song and rights from Paul Rice and put his own name on it, a practice not uncommon in the pre-World War II music business.

The song is a state song of Louisiana because of Jimmy Davis (a governor of Lousianna) is associated with it.

+Lengo67 Thank you. Very insightful.

JUST LOVE THIS BEAT!!!

Ray  Rescued  Country  Music  for  me...

Patti sterling You have that in reverse. Country music rescued Ray Charles. When he sang real country it was magnificent.

Lol! Ray Charles never needed rescuing!

That voice, the urge to dance., then that voice

Absolutely!  I am sitting at my desk and my feet are really itching....  I learned to Dance with him, with his Songs, his voice.

Never say no more. 

Jaazin' it up !  Genius Ray...

You are

Yes, and so are you.

Ga boys do it big often!!!

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thank goodness you guys can't see me thru a webcam..... man, i look like a fool when this song comes on..... sheesh, i'm playing the piano on the table right now, and i rock back and forth like ol' Ray!!!!!!!  ok, i worded that wrong..... i am pretending i know how to play the piano, and using the kitchen table as a keyboard.... and damn.... i make Ray proud!!!!!!!!

You're the boss, Karen! :D

Good one. I do the same. I also crank up the speaker and play it for the kids.

For all the musicians out there as well as just pure bred music lovers.
This song is probably the best example ever recorded of what happens when
a true musical genius gets his hands on one of the corniest ballads known to man
and filters it through his deep abiding soul. A devout learning experience for
all who listen.

@Doug Fontenot always trying to flip things you knew EXACTLY WHAT the comment meant..and u had to write a book trying to downplay the compliment..You know that song was. Nothing until Ray. Charles did it ..

@1goldbaby the song has a genuine emotion behind it especially rays rendition along with the man in blacks version no need to shit on the song because without it ray wouldn't have made this groovy song

@Crude Wildfire Like I said Ray and the raelettes MADE this song ..DIDNT shit on anything ,just expressed my opinion..

@1goldbaby "you know that song was nothing" sounds like the song wasn't jack shit i might've interpreted it the wrong way my bad bro

This song was definitely SOMETHING before Ray Charles resuscitated it with the gift of life. It's a simple song with several layers of meaning, morphing into a new tune with each novel interpretation.

On this day in 1962 {December 23rd} "You Are My Sunshine" by Ray Charles peaked at #7 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; it had entered the chart on November 10th and spent 12 weeks on the Top 100...
And on December 15th it reached #1 {for 1 week} on Billboard's R&B Singles chart {during the year 1962 he had two other No. 1s on the R&B chart {"Unchain My Heart" for 2 weeks and "I Can't Stop Loving You" for 10 weeks}...
The record's B-side, "Your Cheating Heart", also made the Top 100, it peaked at #29...
Both songs were from his album, "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Volume Two", the album peaked at #2 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart...
R.I.P. Mr. Charles, born Ray Charles Robinson, 1930 - 2004...

the movie made me cry so many times :o such beautiful portrait

The Best......Soul Music the King

I'm so lucky to have actually seen him do this song live in 1963.

I was born in 64' and I thought I was a dinosaur :-D

long live ray

Just finished the film: Trouble with the Curve. But I see,not just me here, because of the film.A great movie with a great song, Ray Charles still amazing!

MONUMENTAL!!!!

Trouble With the Curve is a great baseball flick. Looks like Ray Charles singing "You Are My Sunshine" at the end brought us all to YouTube to hear more Ray. Hearing him sing at the end was like the cherry on top.

Dang, same with me 7 months later. Damn good movie, damn good song!

Despite the almost breezy bridge, the song so unabashedly defines devastation like nothing else.