You Are My Sunshine by Oliver Hood

David plays You Are My Sunshine for senior citizens.

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[giltedged2]

@bizintin

Don't get me wrong. Jimmie Davis sings the best version and he made the song popular. Also I wouldn't think singing through a megaphone by O.Hood was all that great. But the sentiments are his and the music is his. Afterwards he patented all his compositions but not one became a hit.

Wiki is OK I suppose but increasingly I'm seeing history politicized (not in the case of "You are my sunshine") of course but in favour of Africans, Muslims and against Christians, the West etc

[bizintin]

Whoops I made a mistake...I was referring to the history of "You Are My Sunshine" on Wikipedia.

[bizintin]

This information you share is important. It would be good to have the beginnings of the song correct there. I do not know how one goes about doing that.

[giltedged2]

The song was bought for $35 by Jimmie Davis, (who made his own excellent version of it) from Paul Rice who claimed to compose it.

But it was composed by Oliver Hood a self-taught, charismatic yet humble man, one of life's gentlemen, who first sang it in oublic in La Grange, Georgia in 1933 at a VFW convention.

Hood's house was like the local centre for musicians who used to gather there or on the porch playing music

Sunshine is a simple yet very happy/sad song and David plays it well

[Marsyfam]

aww, this is so lovely(: and they all sang along.

so sweet(:

[taffycat21]

Jimmy Davis, Oliver Hood who cares. Jimmy got credit for it so its his song. Anybody can say its theirs, but it's who gets credit that proves who owns it.

[ryder101z]

Oliver Hood created the song but was copy righted by Jimmy Davis

[bichonandon]

Ummm no it was not. OLIVER HOOD and that is IT!

[taffycat21]

This song was actually written by two time Governor Jimmy Davis of Louisianna

[Family4china]

good voice.