Mitchell released the album that featured the song as the title track in 2002. Now she has released another beautiful version of “You Are My Sunshine,” this time in Spanish.

“You Are My Sunshine” may in fact be the most ubiquitous piece of music of the 20th century, second only to “Happy Birthday” and “Shave and a Haircut.” Its popularity never wanes with ...

Said Rice, “I wrote ‘You Are my Sunshine’ in 1937. Where I got the idea for it, a girl over in South Carolina wrote me this long letter—it was long about seventeen pages. And she was ...