Do You Know You Are My Sunshine Explained

Do You Know You Are My Sunshine
Type:single
Artist:The Statler Brothers
Album:Entertainers...On and Off the Record
B-Side:You're the First
Released:March 1978
Genre:Country
Length:2:13
Label:Mercury
Producer:Jerry Kennedy
Prev Title:Some I Wrote
Prev Year:1978
Next Title:Who Am I to Say
Next Year:1978

"Do You Know You Are My Sunshine" is a song written by Don Reid and Harold Reid, and recorded by American country music group The Statler Brothers. It was released in March 1978 as the first single from the album Entertainers...On and Off the Record. The song was The Statler Brothers' twenty-seventh country hit and the first of four number ones on the country chart, as well as the group's only number one with original tenor Lew DeWitt. The single stayed at number one for two weeks and spent a total of eleven weeks on the country chart.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 331.