American Songwriter

This 1966 One-Hit Wonder Has a Tragically Dark Backstory, but You’d Never Know Looking at the Title

"Sunny" by Bobby Hebb sounds like it would be a happy-go-lucky song, but it was inspired by two back-to-back tragedies.
American Songwriter

Behind the Song: “Sunny,” Bobby Hebb

An evergreen song can help sustain an artist or writer’s career for a lifetime, and since he both wrote and sang it, Bobby Hebb hit the jackpot in 1966 with the jazzy pop hit “Sunny.” The song made it ...
Nashville Scene

Remembering Bobby Hebb, a Nashville original who belonged to the world

Bobby Hebb was born in Nashville on July 26, 1938, and succumbed to lung cancer in the same city on Aug. 3, a very full 72 years later. The life he lived in the time between took in the depth and ...
Reuters

Singer-songwriter Bobby Hebb of "Sunny" fame dies

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Bobby Hebb, whose smash pop song "Sunny" crossed racial and genre lines to become a huge hit, has died, hospital officials said. He was 72. A spokesman at Nashville ...