The versions by Autry, Crosby, and King reached the US charts of the day. " In 1941, it was covered by Gene Autry, Bing Crosby, Mississippi John Hurt, Wayne King and Lawrence Welk.
The song has been covered numerous times - so often, in fact, that it is "one of the most commercially programmed numbers in American popular music." The song, originally country music, has "virtually lost" its original country music identity, and "represent both the national flowering of country music and its eventual absorption into the mainstream of American popular culture. It has been declared one of the state songs of Louisiana because of its association with Davis, a country music singer and governor of the state in the years 1944–19–1964. "You Are My Sunshine" is a song popularized by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell in 1939.
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