"Can't Nobody Love You"

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I'm listening (for the first time!) to a Sam Cooke compilation album.  It includes "Nothing Can Change This Love," which is one of only two songs on this album that I've heard before, but in listening to it, I've discovered that it's the song that's referenced in the bridge of "Can't Nobody Love You":

Listen now, Sam bought you cake and ice cream
Called you "Cherry pie"
Ray Charles called you his sunshine
But you're the apple, apple of my eye, oh

"Can't Nobody Love You" specifically references (the first half of) the bridge of "Nothing Can Change This Love":

Oh, you're the apple of my eye
You're cherry pie
And, oh, you're, you're cake and ice cream
Oh, you're sugar and spice
And everything nice
You're the girl of my, my, my, my dreams

"Nothing Can Change This Love" doesn't mention buying cake and ice cream, but all four foods mentioned in "Can't Nobody Love You" are there:  "apple of my eye," "cherry pie," and "cake and ice cream."

I have a few compilation albums of Ray Charles, but I haven't listened to those more than a few times each and amn't as familiar with those as I am with Cooke, so maybe the referent for "Ray Charles called you his sunshine" is lurking somewhere in my collection too.