# Happy Songs! (1 song at a time; w/ link) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 15, 2018, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651 "2018-08-15T13:47:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651/121 "2018-09-03T23:51:29Z")
[Langley Schools Music Project — Good Vibrations](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DA3i0M65U-s) Also, their version of [“I’m Into Something Good”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0AHdIvl5wQ) tops the original. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651/122 "2018-09-03T23:56:11Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Morningtown Ride](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-RkC6MYT2E)-The Seekers OMG! This record is 50+ years old! My mother bought this on 45 RPM in 1965-ish [?]. Thanks for the memory, **coach**. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651/123 "2018-09-04T00:03:36Z")
Another Herb Alpert & TJB (you could probably include their entire catalogue in this thread): [“So What’s New?”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AUXd4jFkEg) (One of those tunes you heard in a million places, but never got the title.) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651/124 "2018-09-04T00:26:50Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Another Herb Alpert & TJB ( **you could probably include their entire catalogue in this thread** ): > > [“So What’s New?”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AUXd4jFkEg) > > (One of those tunes you heard in a million places, but never got the title.) Damn. You revealed my post count padding strategy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651/125 "2018-09-04T00:29:36Z")
only problem is after you hear it for an hour or two you cant get it out of your head as your standing in line in del taco ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651/126 "2018-09-04T00:30:22Z")
[A Walk In The Black Forest](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPZUF82UBpY)-Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651/127 "2018-09-04T00:32:28Z")
[Lollipops And Roses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZmeyJ2KRY)-Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651/128 "2018-09-04T00:33:48Z")
[Whipped Cream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp4hXEm0Ses)-Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651/129 "2018-09-04T00:34:38Z")
[“Cantina Band”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsvfptdFXf4) - John Williams/London Symphony Orchestra ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651/130 "2018-09-04T00:37:52Z")
[Music Box Dancer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpqucmEA3P4)-Frank Mills ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651/131 "2018-09-04T00:40:10Z")
[“Casino Royale”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPHogQ02DFw) - HA & TJB “A Walk in the Black Forest” is another of those heard-it-a-bazillion-times-and-never-knew-the-title tunes. Love it. ---
**Author:** ![blob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blob/32/489_2.png) [@blob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blob)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651/132 "2018-09-04T01:26:21Z")
Axiom-Little Ray of Sunshine [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dXi2Cds0C8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dXi2Cds0C8) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651/133 "2018-09-04T02:27:34Z")
I wanted to post “Going to the End of the Line” but was beaten to it, so: “…A proud man, still can, tell stories his own way” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PLiMy4NaSKc/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGHIgTCg0MA8=&rs=AOn4CLA_fWGlt9uEjTvh3Va0FEOmYbN75g "Saturday in the Park - Chicago") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLiMy4NaSKc) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651/134 "2018-09-04T02:29:50Z")
[Heaven Is A Place On Earth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOGEyBeoBGM)-Belinda Carlisle ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651/135 "2018-09-04T02:30:11Z")
History for this one; in the 1980’s I spent a fair amount of time in the left field beachers at Busch stadium in St. Louis (our motto: “Right Field Sucks”). They would play this song along about the fourth inning and the entire bleachers would sing out the second (and repeated) line(s): [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43vOAw2sAFU) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651/136 "2018-09-04T02:31:24Z")
And one last: From Henry Mancini: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/kRQ7Aej7PQk/maxresdefault.jpg "The Baby Elephant Walk from "Hatari" by Henry Mancini") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRQ7Aej7PQk) ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651/137 "2018-09-04T03:02:19Z")
Can people please include song title and artist so we don’t have to click each link? ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651/138 "2018-09-05T02:48:17Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > Can people please include song title and artist so we don’t have to click each link? Yes, please! Summer Breeze by Seals and Crofts [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MsW8rXPcnM0/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGEkgZShcMA8=&rs=AOn4CLAbktQwsxM9bULEKkAUqYKMMsRO9A "Summer Breeze - Seals & Croft #1 Hit(1972)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsW8rXPcnM0) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-songs-1-song-at-a-time-w-link/819651.md?page=6)