Robert Mann’s 10th book, “You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a Song,” wraps musicology and social and political history into 161 concise pages. Straightforward though ...

Each put in $17.50.” If that is to be believed that it would be clear that Paul Rice wrote the song and then, needing money, sold it. Said Rice, “I wrote ‘You Are my Sunshine’ in 1937.

“You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song,” by Robert Mann, Louisiana State University Press, 216 pages “You Are My Sunshine" is one of the most popular songs in the world.

“You Are My Sunshine” is one of the official state songs of Louisiana. Jimmie Davis went on to become governor of the Pelican State. Davis used the song in his election campaigns.

Robert Mann’s 10th book, “You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a Song,” wraps musicology and social and political history into 161 concise pages.