Song · Shawn Colvin
“Sunny Came Home” by Shawn Colvin
From the album A Few Small Repairs (1996)
“Sunny Came Home” by Shawn Colvin appears on 7 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1997 and 2025. It was first released in 1996 on the album A Few Small Repairs. Its best result is #102 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #410 alternative song of 1997.
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"Sunny Came Home" is the curtain-raiser on A Few Small Repairs, Shawn Colvin's 1996 concept album on Columbia, and it's folk rock with a sly, uneasy undertow. Colvin wrote it with John Leventhal, who turns up all over the track: guitar, mandolin, violin, keyboards and percussion, plus a hand in the recording. Colvin plays acoustic guitar and sings, Kate Markowitz adds background vocals, Michael Rhodes and Shawn Pelton hold down bass and drums, and Bob Clearmountain mixed it.
It took its time finding radio, reaching pop stations early in 1997, but once it landed it gave Colvin her first Billboard Hot 100 hit, a top-10 one at that, and walked off with Grammys for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 102 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1997 | 107 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 236 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Essential Songs | 913 |
| 2009 | 164 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
| 2021 | 456 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s | 908 |
| 2022 | 817 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
| 2024 | 659 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2025 | 276 | WFPK | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s | 500 |
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