“You Are The Sunshine of My Life” by Stevie Wonder

"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" followed "Superstition" off Stevie Wonder's Talking Book, the 1972 album, and hit the shops as a single in 1973. It's a ballad Wonder wrote, sang and produced himself, with Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff engineering and co-producing at his side. Scott Edwards lays down the bass, Daniel Ben Zebulon the congas, and Gloria Barley, Jim Gilstrap and Lani Groves fill in the voices behind him. Billboard heard something soft and haunting riding on electric piano, and that about nails the glow of it.

It became his third single to top the Hot 100 and his first to lead the Easy Listening chart, won him the Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002. Rolling Stone later slotted it at 183 on its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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