“Bobby Hebb was raised in a musical family, and he performed as a child with his brother Harold at Nashville’s Bijou Theater. Spotted by Roy Acuff, he played miscellaneous instruments in the country star’s band in the early ‘50s. After Harold Hebb, a former member of vocal group the Marigolds, was fatally knifed outside a Music City club on Nov. 23, 1963 — the day after John F. Kennedy’s assassination — his younger sibling was moved to write his best known song. Recorded with producer Jerry Ross and arranger Joe Renzotti in New York, ‘Sunny’ became a No. 2 pop hit on the Philips label in summer 1966” (Christopher Morris, Daily Variety, 2010).
Bobby Hebb “Sunny”
Bobby Hebb “Sunny”
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