Johnny Cash was born on February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas, into a poor farming family during the Great Depression. He worked in the U.S. Air Force, where he started writing songs, and later ...

Every night before bed, I sing my kids this song: “You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are gray. You never know, dear, how much I love you. Please don’t take my ...

Explore these Christina Perri songs that echo the themes and emotions of “You Are My Sunshine,” reflecting love and heartbreak. Christina Perri covered it as a tribute, adding her own emotional style ...

Some songs stay with the world for decades, even centuries, after their writing. But those songs, which come to us before the music business took its modern form, often have a murky background. One ...

Glurge: A dying baby was brought back from the brink by the sound of her brother's singing 'You Are My Sunshine.'" Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did ...

For Dave Cobb’s Southern Family compilation, contributing artists like Anderson East and Jamey Johnson hit the drawing board to craft new songs about the different ways familial roots grow on their ...

Robert Mann, author of "You Are My Sunshine," recently spoke at the Rotary Club of Alexandria about the iconic song's history. Ray Charles's rendition of "You Are My Sunshine" helped disassociate it ...

A song loved by generations throughout the world, “You Are My Sunshine” has special resonance in Louisiana. Statewide affection for the love song-lament largely goes to the late Louisiana Gov. Jimmie ...

“You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song,” by Robert Mann, Louisiana State University Press, 216 pages “You Are My Sunshine" is one of the most popular songs in the world. It has ...