Slim Whitman - You Are My Sunshine [c.1989].
Channel: mrblindfreddy9999
Date: 06/06/2023

[It Is Claimed That Oliver Hood Wrote the Song in the Early 1930's
 and Performed it at a Veteran's of Foreign Wars Convention in Georgia].
1st. Recorded 22 August 1939 
          by the Pine Ridge Boys on Bluebird 8263 A [no composer credit]
2nd. Recorded 13 September 1939 
           by the Rice Brothers Gang on  Decca 5763 A [Paul Rice Credited]
Paul Rice Claimed to Compose it in 1937
Jimmie Davis Bought the Song & Rights from Paul Rice
This Song is One of the Two Official Songs of the State of Louisiana
Most Famous Version Recorded 1940 by Jimmie Davis

Issued on Cassette, LP and CD 
   "Best Loved Favorites"  
Also Recorded 1977

Recorded  Circa 1989 - Music City Music Hall, Nashville, TN – 
Slim Whitman [vcl solo] - 
          - ALL SESSIONS - 
Harold Bradley [gt], Ray Edenton [gt], Jerry Kennedy [gt], 
Andy Reiss [gt], Pete Wade [gt], Jimmy Crawford [steel gt], 
Henry Strelecki/ Jon Kornau [bass], Buddy Harman [drums], 
Ron Oates/ David Briggs  [keyboards], 
Jim Ferguson, Bergen White, Dennis Wilson [bck vcl]. 
Producer: Jerry Kennedy.

 Born Ottis Dewey Whitman jr. in Tampa FL    [1923 - 2013] 
"Slim" Recorded from 1948 to 2010.
1957  Joined the Grand Ole Opry
1968  Country Music Hall of Fame MUSEUM
                'Walkway of Stars"
1976 - 1977 - 1977 - 1978
Voted Best International Male Vocalist
by the International Country Music Awards
Given A Star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame
He claimed to have sold over 120 Million Records.