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.
Wicked Local

Remembrance: The great Bobby Hebb, 'Sunny' and beyond

Bobby Hebb was born in Nashville, Tenn., on July 26, 1938, but lived a good part of his life in Salem and Rockport. One of his first publishers was John R. (nee John Richbourg), owner of “Cape Ann ...
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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Bobby Hebb dies at 72; writer and singer of ’66 hit ‘Sunny’

Bobby Hebb, a musician and songwriter whose 1966 hit “Sunny” about a smiling girl became a pop music classic, died Tuesday of lung cancer at a Nashville hospital. He was 72. “Sunny” was recorded by ...