◇ image via WikipediaYou Are the Sunshine of My Life
You Are the Sunshine of My Life is a Rhythm and blues act. They run in the same orbit as Yesterdays, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Stevie Wonder, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 2 connections around You Are the Sunshine of My Life and forward to Stevie Wonder. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
"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. 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. This song was the second single released from the 1972 album entitled Talking Book, which stayed at number one on the R&B albums chart for three weeks.
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