I Live For The Sun

Album: Andrea (1966)
Charted: 51
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    Sun sun sun sun!
    Sun sun sun sun!

    I live for the sun (sun sun sun)
    Because it means fun!
    Pretty girls with their guys;
    Such a love you can't buy.
    Baby, they all live for the sun!

    Go!
    Sun sun sun sun!
    Sun sun sun sun!

    My girl, my girl and me (sun sun sun)
    We will stay right by the sea.
    Livin' and lovin' this way.
    We're with the sun every day.
    We, we all live for the sun!

    Go!
    Sun sun sun sun!
    Sun sun sun sun!

    Sunsets are for lovers
    And dads and mothers.
    Whoah, and little girls and their brothers?
    They all live for the sun!

    Go!
    Sun sun sun sun!
    Sun sun sun sun!

    Listen, listen bud. (sun sun sun)
    Don't be, don't be a dud.
    Take your girl by the hand.
    Walk with her in the sand.
    And always,
    Yes, always,
    We gotta live for the
    Sun sun sun sun!
    Sun sun sun sun!

    Go!
    Sun sun sun sun!
    Sun sun sun sun!

    Go!
    Sun sun sun sun!
    Sun sun sun sun! Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

  • Steve L from Los AngelesI love this song. It gives me a great summer vibe.
  • Musiclover from Mullumbimby AustraliaAbsolute banger of a song! Love it!
  • 2002blackcamarodude from Arlington Tx2 of the Greatest Beach Songs Ever----Andrea & I Live For The Sun, both by the Sunrays! Andrea was played on the Lloyd Thaxton Show ever day in Jan., 1966!
  • Craig from Sacramento, CaMarty Cerf (Phonograph Record Magazine) once told me personally that he was involved in the writting of the song. Any comment or knowledge would be helpful. Thanks.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn November 6th 1965, the Sunrays performed "I Live for the Sun" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the song was at #57 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; it was also its 10th and last week on the chart...
    {See the post below}.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn August 29th, 1965 "I Live For The Sun" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #95; eventually it peaked at #51 and spent 10 weeks on the Top 100...
    And June 4th, 1966 the Sunrays appeared on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand' and performed "Andrea" (it peaked at #41) and "Still" (which reached #93)...
    These three records were their only Top 100 entries.
  • James from Wilmington, NcThe Sunrays started as the Renegades, a garage band consisting of Eddy Medora, Marty DiGiovanni, Rick Henn, Vince Hozier, and Steve O'Reilly. Eddy was friends with the Wilson brothers of the Beach Boys, Carl in particular. Carl had the band audition for Murry Wilson, since Murry wanted another act to manage. This was also around the time Brian was wanting to be free of Murry's control. Murry liked the band and told them to write songs. Eddy wrote the initial hooks to I Live For the Sun and Rick finished it. I Live For the Sun got as high as #51 in 1965. Steve left just as I Live For the Sun broke. Eddy replaced him with Eddy's friend Byron Case. They had two other minor singles, Andrea and Still, but this is the song that everyone remembers.
  • Mark from Lancaster, OhWe need some songfacts here.

    How high did it get on the charts? Who was the actual writer? This song is almost universally maligned, but we were listening to it today and kind of liked it. And who were the Sun-Rays, for heaven's sakes?

  • Dave from Scottsdale, AzListen to the words- you can tell it was written by an old man.
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