“I Can See Clearly Now” was an inspiring Billboard Hot 100 Chart < hit written and recorded by Johnny Nash, but also recorded by such artists as Anne Murray, Donny Osmond, Geoff Moore and the Distance, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Ray Charles, Sonny and Cher, The Mamas & the Papas and Willie Nelson. A 1993 hit version was recorded by Jimmy Cliff for the motion picture “Cool Runnings” after which it enjoyed new popularity in such films as “Grosse Pointe Blank,” “The Break-up,” “Thelma & Louise,” “Antz,” “Deep Blue Sea,” “Envy,” “Hitch” and “Shrek 2.”

-R. Kerby