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Sunshine
title: Sunshine on My Shoulders text: It entered the "Billboard" Hot 100 at number 90 on January 26, 1974 and moved into the number one spot nine weeks later, remaining at #1 for one week. The song also topped the adult contemporary chart for two weeks in 1974. "Billboard" ranked it as the No. 18 song for 1974. The song also features strings and winds, including oboes. A 2 1/2-hour made-for-television movie titled "Sunshine", which aired on NBC in 1973, used the song as a theme. The movie starred Cliff DeYoung and Cristina Raines. It told the story of a young mother dying from cancer. High title: Sunshine on My Shoulders text: ratings prompted a TV series (also "Sunshine") which ran for three months during the summer of 1974. The short-lived series began where the movie left off with the young widowed father (DeYoung) raising his stepdaughter (Elizabeth Cheshire). It is said by many who were close to the woman whom the movie was based on including her parents that Denver used quotes from her journals in writing the song. Credit was never given and this may have been part of a lawsuit that was considered if not filed after the release of the movie. In the John Denver Biopic "Take Me title: Sunshine on My Shoulders text: Sunshine on My Shoulders "Sunshine on My Shoulders" (sometimes titled simply "Sunshine") is a song recorded and co-written by American singer-songwriter John Denver. It was originally released as an album track on 1971's "Poems, Prayers & Promises" and later, as a single in 1973. It went to number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart in the U.S. in early 1974. Denver described how he wrote "Sunshine on My Shoulders": "I wrote the song in Minnesota at the time I call 'late winter, early spring'. It was a dreary day, gray and slushy. The snow was melting and it was title: Sunshine on My Shoulders text: Home: The John Denver Story" (2000) it is played when Denver (Chad Lowe) takes his new glider out for a Test flight. This final scene is based on the real life event that killed Denver in 1997. The 1996 re-recorded version is the one played. The song was covered by Canadian singer/songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen as the lead single from her debut studio album, "Tug of War", released on June 16, 2008. Sunshine on My Shoulders "Sunshine on My Shoulders" (sometimes titled simply "Sunshine") is a song recorded and co-written by American singer-songwriter John Denver. It was originally released as title: Sunshine (TV series) text: Sunshine (TV series) Sunshine is a 1975 American television comedy-drama series starring Cliff DeYoung and Elizabeth Cheshire, about a hippie musician raising his young daughter alone after the death of his wife. The series was based on the 1973 made-for-TV movie "Sunshine" and DeYoung, Bill Mumy, Corey Fischer, and Meg Foster all reprised their roles from the film. The series originally ran for 13 episodes on NBC in the spring of 1975. The show's opening theme was John Denver's hit song "Sunshine on My Shoulders." Three years after the death of his wife Kate (which occurred at the end of