What is the song You are My Sunshine About?

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You Are My Sunshine

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For the South Korean film, see You Are My Sunshine (2005 film).

"You Are My Sunshine" is a popular song first recorded about 1940. It has been declared one of the state songs of Louisiana as a result of its association with former state governor and country music star Jimmie Davis.

Davis and Charles Mitchell are the credited songwriters of "You Are My Sunshine". According to many sources, Davis 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. Some early versions of the song do credit the Rice Brothers. According to some accounts, clarinetist Pud Brown also had a hand with the Rice Brothers in the song's origin or first arrangement.

Davis said that for some time he had been enthusiastic about the song and had unsuccessfully tried to convince record companies to record it before finally making his own 1940 record of the song. Davis's version was popular and was followed by numerous other versions, including those of Bing Crosby and Gene Autry, which made the number a big hit.

Davis played up his association with the song when running for governor, singing it at all his campaign rallies and riding on a horse named "Sunshine". Jimmie Davis's authorized biography, You Are My Sunshine: The Jimmie Davis Story, was published in 1987.

"You Are My Sunshine" has been recorded hundreds of times. It is today a widely recognized song and a standard for traditional country music and traditional jazz performers, although rock and roll performances by the likes of Tony Sheridan and Bill Haley & His Comets also exist. The Haley performance was recorded in 1969 and was sung by the band's bass player, Ray Cawley; it was not released until the early 1990s.

It has been featured in numerous films, television shows, television commercials, and radio commercials (most notably in a series of Rinso advertisements in the 1960s). The song was featured in the movie Primary Colors (1996) and the Coen Brothers movie O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000). It was also used in the television show Star Trek: Voyager in the episode Someone to Watch Over Me, in which the character The Doctor used the song to teach Seven of Nine about music. Many sporting teams, such as Wigan Athletic Football Club, the Portland Timbers, St John's College, and Sydney FC, use the song as a crowd anthem, often replacing "Sunshine" with the name of the team. Also, Liverpool Football Club fans made their own version in honour of Spanish player Luis García, while rivals Manchester United fans made their own version honouring Norwegian striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

Rap music performer Papa Winnie also made a rap remix of the song.

Music is such a universal language, it can make you happy, it can make you sad. It can bring families and friends together for many joyous hours of fun. "You are My Sunshine" is a happy song that has been around for many years. I would like to share with you a "happy" story, pertaining to this song.

This story is about one of the many developmentally disabled people that I have the honor to work with. I will call her Mary to protect her identity.

Mary was born with "downs Syndrome". She lived with her very loving family until her mother was no longer able to take care of her. It was then that she came to the agency that I work for. As is true with so many challenged people, their families love them so much that they don't have to do much for themselves. When Mary came to us, she did not communicate, except for an occasional, yes, no, I don't care.

One night I went into her room and she was sitting on her bed watching the "Statler Brothers Show" on TV. I sat down with her to watch. They started singing "You are my Sunshine", and to my surprise, Mary sat there and sang every word of the song with them. Needless to say, it brought tears to my eyes and we continued watching the show and singing right along with them.

From that point on, we worked a lot with Mary, which included a lot of singing, dancing, and just having fun. It wasn't long after that she began communicating to us in "real" sentences. We found out later that her Mother sang that song to her all her life. It just proves that with the help of music, and a lot of loving care, miracles do happen.

It is a man who is asking the man his wife is having an affair with to not take her from him. In fact he is begging both of them not to do it.

Chuck Norris.

He takes naps on the surface of the sun, you know.

It's a lovely song though.

My ex fiance' used to sing that song to me. We built a relationship around that song, guess what? Some asshole took her away from me.........how cruel!

Sorry, it's about cocaine addiction.