Sunny (song) - Other Cover Versions

Other Cover Versions

• Many other artists have recorded versions of the song. Georgie Fame's and Cher's issues both charted in the UK Top 75 in 1966. Other covering artists include Public Enemies, Richard Anthony, James Brown and Marva Whitney, Wes Montgomery, Robert Mitchum, the Classics IV, the Electric Flag, Jose Feliciano, Stevie Wonder, Ella Fitzgerald, The Four Seasons, The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Earl Grant, Mary Wells, Paul Carrack,David Clayton-Thomas, Jamiroquai, Stanley Jordan, Marion Rung, Mina, Jimmy Smith, Johnny Mathis, Les McCann, Chris Montez, The Head Shop, Leonard Nimoy, Wilson Pickett, Los york's, Del Shannon, Nick Cave, Oscar Peterson with Joe Pass and Ray Brown, Dusty Springfield, Helge Schneider, War, Ajico, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Twinset featuring Barnaby Weir, Terrorgruppe and The Walker Brothers.
• Chilean singer Buddy Richard recorded the song in Spanish in 1964 with the title "Cielo" (a way to say "darling" or "honey" in that country).
• Luis Miguel recorded the song in Spanish for his 1987 album Soy Como Quiero Ser.
• Frank Sinatra covered "Sunny" with Duke Ellington on their collaborative album, Francis A. & Edward K..
• Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass made an instrumental version of "Sunny" on the LP album "The Brass Are Comin'" launched in 1969 (A & M SP 4228).
• Yambu recorded a 12" inch extended play disco version of Sunny released in 1975. That version of the song is used in the Stephen Chow movie, CJ7.
• Cris Barber recorded a version of the song on her 2008 album This Moment to Be Free.
• Christophe Willem covered the song in 2006 (#3 in France, #9 in Belgium (Wallonia), #17 in Switzerland).
• Mark Ronson did a live cover with Candie Payne at the Electric Proms
• Saxophonist Stanley Turrentine also covered the song on his album "The Spoiler."
• Guitarist Pat Martino covered the song in 1972 on his first live album.
• Arranger Pino Presti covered the song in 1976 on his album 1st Round (Atlantic Records T50274)
• Mexican rock group Los Yaki covered this song and renamed it "Sonia", it was later performed by the ska band Panteon Rococo
• Japanese Jazz-Fusion Guitarists Issei Noro of Casiopea, Masahiro Andoh of T-Square and Hirokuni Korekata of KORENOS, covered this song with their Supergroup, Ottottrio, on their 1998 Album, "Triptych".
• Justin Guarini performed this song in the Top 8 round of American Idol Season 1.
• Andreas Weise performed this song on his first audition of Swedish Idol Season 7.
• Popular Japanese band Ulfuls have a Japanese version called "Yonin".
• Duo Diva Fever performed the song during the seventh season of The X Factor.
• The song has also been covered by Sunny, a Korean singer from the popular girl group Girls' Generation in their first Asia Tour.
• The Chopsticks (a Hong Kong female duo, made up of Sandra Lang (仙杜拉) & Amina (亞美娜)), covered this as a medley song with "Chain Of Fools"、"Gimme Little Sign" & "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" on their 1971 LP 《All Of A Sudden》issue.
• An instrumental version of the song has been recorded by Booker T. and the M.G.'s and another by Manfred Mann on their 1966 EP Instrumental Assassination.
• A previously unreleased version by the 1970s British vocal group Design was included on their 2012 CD One Sunny Day: Singles and Rarities 1968-1978.