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"Hello Sunshine" is a song by the Welsh band Super Furry Animals from their album ''Phantom Power''. It was the seventeenth single released by the group and reached number 31 on the UK Singles Chart in October 2003. Several versions of the track were released: the single version omits the short sample of the song "By the Sea" by Wendy and Bonnie which begins the album version, while two remixes, by Weevil and Freiband, appear on the album ''Phantom Phorce''. An animated music video, featuring drawings by regular Super Furries sleeve designer Pete Fowler, was produced to accompany the release of "Hello Sunshine" as a single. The track received mostly positive reviews from critics. The band turned down "a seven-figure offer" from Coca-Cola to allow the use of "Hello Sunshine" in an advertising campaign citing alleged malpractice on the part of the drinks firm. The group have stated that despite the financial incentives of licensing their songs, they are happy to simply be able to make a living from music. ==Recording and themes== The track begins with a sample of the song "By the Sea" by the teenage sibling duo Wendy and Bonnie, from their 1969 album ''Genesis'', which Super Furries singer Gruff Rhys has described as "amazing songs, amazing lyrics and amazing voices". The decision to begin the track with a snippet of "By the Sea" came about due to laziness on the band's part—the track had originally being conceived as a duet but the group "never got around to getting anyone to sing" with them so they "chopped up the Wendy & Bonnie song and stuck it on () it's in the same key () seemed to make sense". The edit version, issued as a single, does not contain the sample. "Hello Sunshine" shares the same key, D major, the same guitar tuning, D-A-D-D-A-D, and was written around the same time as several other songs from ''Phantom Power'' including the "Father Father" instrumentals, "Golden Retriever", "Cityscape Skybaby" and "Out of Control".〔 The track was recorded at the Super Furry Animals' own studio in Cardiff along with the rest of ''Phantom Power''. Rhys has stated that the song is "a courting ballad with a 'been so down looks like up to me' mentality". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hello Sunshine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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