"sunshine of your love" was included as the second track on "disraeli gears", which was released in november 1967 by reaction records in the uk and atco records in the us. at first, atco did not see the song as a single ("strange brew", backed with "tales of brave ulysses" had been released as a single in june 1967). however, in december 1967, the label issued an edited version of the song as the second single from the album, backed with "swlabr" (the running time was trimmed from 4:08 to 3:03).