The Soggy Bottom Boys: You are my sunshine

This is a song from the movie "O brother where art thou" Didn´t tought that this one was already on youtube, even tough i looked for it before uploading this one, but I guess I´ll just go with this one now.

I got some interesting comments by from the user CrazyCharlieManson, who posted some background information about the song, and I think it was well worth putting up on the description for evryone to see. Or you can look at the comments themselves. Big deal.

"You Are My Sunshine" performed by...
Norman Blake born Mar 10 1938 in Chattanooga, TN. Acoustic guitar flatpicker, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. In his over 50 year career Blake has played with a number of folk, country and bluegrass groups.

Oliver Hood never thought of copyrighting his music - never until "You Are My Sunshine" rose to the top of the charts in 1940. It was then that Oliver Hood began copyrighting his music - one song too late. In 1957 he wrote and copyrighted "Somebody Stole My Sunshine Away," about the theft of "You Are My Sunshine." . Somewhere the sun is shining, But there's rain in my heart today. There's no denying My heart keeps crying -
 Somebody stole my shunshine away.

Paul Rice claimed to have composed it in 1937.
A lot of people remembered hearing the song long before 1937- in the mid
1930's. Paul Rice played in the early
1930's with Oliver Hood of LaGrange, GA.
Oliver Hood wrote "You Are My Sunshine." He wrote the words to the song on the back of a brown paper sack, which his children still possess, and he first performed the song at a VFW convention in LaGrange in 1933.

Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell are the credited songwriters of "You Are My Sunshine". Davis bought the song and rights from Paul Rice for $35 and put his own name on it in 1940. Two versions of "You Are My Sunshine" were recorded and released prior to Jimmie Davis's. The first was recorded on Aug 22, 1939 by The Pine Ridge Boys, from Atlanta.The second was recorded on Sept 13, 1939 by The Rice Brothers Gang.

Thank you.

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[Arvid Nikolausson]

Haha! big thanks for pointing that out - It really gave me a big laugh when I first read your comment and then my description! It was years since I uploaded this, I was only 14 when I did, so my english skills wasn´t the best back then. Also english is not my native language, and now that i think about it, I often made sentances quite worthy of your description! ;)

[irondude0611]

This is actually quite a sad song. Of course it's on borderline obsession, but it's still a good song.

[79Wille]

so d-amn good !

[D Z]

My father died 12 years ago today. He used to sit in the backyard and play it on his banjo. I understand. RIP and God bless you real good, Norman William Francis Zeller 1911-2001.

[Kyle Boyer]

This whole album still makes me tear up :')

[aidan sanders]

love this song. also i love you sarah my beautiful girlfriend <3

[saiyangirl22]

aw im sorry, i remember when i was little my mom always sang this song to me before i fell asleep <3

[megadelfine]

Damn

[melanie detwiler]

when my mom was passing with lung cancer i sang this song to here everyday .. it was her fav song ... rip 1946-2002 linda jean cecil harkness

[Pnscar Doe]

thx

[liftedJ33P]

this song reminds me you can't fall out of love, ever

[Fernando Castro del rio Ceballos]

know that feelin' bro!