Put a Positive Spin on Your Day with "Sunny"

Bobby Hebb wrote one of the most covered popular songs of all time.  According to Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), Sunny is number 25 in its “Top 100 songs of the Century.”  Hebb and his older brother Harold began performing in Nashville at ages three and nine.  At age 12, Hebb was playing spoons with Roy Acuff and his Smokey Mountain Boys on the Grand Ole Opry.

Hebb’s older brother Harold was stabbed to death outside a Nashville nightclub the same day that President Kennedy was assassinated.  The two events put Hebb in a deep depression.  Hebb reportedly wrote Sunny to express that one should “always look on the bright side”, a direct quote from Hebb.  "All my intentions were to think of happier times & pay tribute to my brother – basically looking for a brighter day – because times were at a low.”

Sunny was released in 1966 and it was so well accepted that Hebb toured the US with the Beatles.

Hebb must have been an un-politically correct kind of guy.  Remember Sylvia, of Mickey and Sylvia? Hebb wrote You Broke My Heart (and I Broke Your Jaw) and recorded it with Sylvia.  You can hear in on-line if you are interested.

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