DJ Shah featuring Adrina Thorpe - Who Will Find Me
U2 - Beautiful Day
Polyphonic Spree - Light and Day
Matt Darey - Temptation
Good Morning, Baltimore and You Can’t Stop The Beat from the musical Hairspray.
Sing a Song / I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing, The Gaither Vocal Band.
No Such Thing, John Mayer.
All I Want, Toad the Wet Sprocket.
You Get What You Give, The New Radicals.
Kiss Me, Sixpence None the Richer.
That Thing You Do!, The Wonders.
The More I See You, Nina Simone.
Shiny Happy People, REM.
Right Here, Right Now, Jesus Jones.
The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss), Cher.
Every Kinda People, Robert Palmer.
It’s Gonna Be (500 Miles), The Proclaimers.
You and I, Pt. 2, Fleetwood Mac.
Everybody Have Fun Tonight, Wang Chung.
Don’t Get Me Wrong, The Pretenders.
Walking on Sunshine, Katrina and the Waves.
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Wham!
Right by Your Side, Eurythmics.
Bang the Drum All Day, Todd Rundgren.
Kiss on My List, Hall & Oates.
We Are Family, Sister Sledge.
Wondering Where the Lions Are, Bruce Cockburn.
Roll With the Changes, REO Speedwagon.
Boogie Oogie Oogie, Taste of Honey.
Lust for Life, Iggy Pop.
Mr. Blue Sky, Electric Light Orchestra.
Daybreak, Barry Manilow.
As, Stevie Wonder.
Day by Day, Godspell.
Beautiful City, Godspell.
You Are the Sunshine of My Life, Stevie Wonder.
Free Ride, The Edgar Winter Group.
Good Morning Starshine, Oliver.
“Brave” by Nichole Nordeman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeGOddmMm3E
Here Comes the Sun - Beatles
A lot of these are on my “Get Up! Wake up! Be Happy!” daily mix
Roam - B52s
For Once In My Life - Stevie Wonder
Fantasy - Mariah Carey
500 Miles - The Proclaimers
Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - Beyoncé
Beautiful Day - U2
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Oh man, I could go on and on. I’ll stop.
Mr. E’s Beautiful Blues (goddamn right, it’s a beautiful day) - The Eels
Good Morning Aztlan - Los Lobos
I have a lot of these songs, burned to CD! Got “Wild One” by Iggy Pop, too :D.
I can’t feel bad if Jeff Beck’s *Freeway Jam *is playing.
This Christmas by Donny Hathaway
No youtube link because all I could find was covers and not the original. If it’s a movie about black people and it’s Christmas time, this song is in the film.
“Strawberry Letter 23” - The Brothers Johnson. This song makes me want to don a pair of short shorts and join a roller boogie. So awesome.
“Young American” - David Bowie. Seems like this song always comes on the pub jukebox right when you’re starting to feel happy and buzzed.
“Behind the Clouds” by Brad Paisley. It’s a happy, sunny, toe-tapping lil’ feel-good country tune.
I’m not a fan—he’s managed to fly beneath my ‘country’ radar for a while—but the song is on my son’s CD of the soundtrack from the Pixar movie “Cars”.
Happy Hour by the Housemartins.
This song is ALWAYS in my primary playlist on my iPod.
That’s Fatboy Slim, by the way, before he was famous.
311 is the ultimate feel good band.
Don’t Stay Home
Stealing Happy Hours
Hey You
Don’t Dwell
Other Side of Things
Jupiter
I don’t know any other band or musician with a more consistently positive message.
50 First Dates ruined this song for me. Now I can’t hear it without picturing Adam Sandler singing it at the top of his lungs while crying his eyes out.
My wife and I have two cars, and each car has two sets of pre-set radio stations. Each of us gets one of those sets – hers are mostly programmed to pop/R&B, while mine are programmed to various flavors of rock.
Whenever I get in whichever car I’m taking, I start the car, buckle up, check my mirrors, pull away from the curb, and then make sure I’ve got the radio set to my group of stations.
But not yesterday. I took the car after my wife used it, and as I was getting myself situated, Single Ladies came on the radio and I simply could not turn it off. It’s simply way to upbeat and happy – if I hadn’t been driving at the time, God help me, I might’ve started dancing.
Kelley Stoltz Birdies Singing
Interesting that the OP mentions the movie Boyz in the Hood because I bet that’s one of the reasons why I can’t see Ooh Child as a happy song. They play it when Dough Boy is being taken to juvie, and since I saw that scene as a child, that song has always been very haunting to me. Even when it is supposed to get to the upbeat part, it is just a really heartbreaking song to me. I mean, when you think about it, the song is really about selling a pipe dream to someone in a hopeless seeming situation. At least that’s my morbid ass take on it.
I love Bjork’s “Scary” for an upbeat fun song. The lyrics are a bit melancholy, but the music is so uplifting, and her voice so cheerful that you just gotta screech along with her.
ETA: I love Age of Aquarius so much. Have always loved that song, but again, enomaj has a knack for choosin songs as upbeat that I find strangely haunting.
“Do Ya” by ELO
“Borrowed Time” by Styx
“Going for the One” by Yes
“Even in the Quietest Moments” by Supertramp
First off, let me say that I rarely actually listen to the words of a song. I just typically like the overall sound. So if one reads the lyrics, perhaps these might not be so upbeat.
“Wavelength” by Van Morrison.
“Lido Shuffle” - Boz Scaggs
“Cheeseburger in Paradise” - Jimmy Buffet
“(Sitting on) the dock of the Bay” - Otis Redding
“Ubangi Stomp” - Alice Cooper version
“Stray Cat Strut” - Stray Cats
“Hot Rod Lincoln” - Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen
And even though I think it is counter to the song’s intent, if I crank up the volume to 11, then “Mama, I’m Coming Home” by Ozzy puts a smile on my face. Course, it takes awhile for my hearing to come back.
Sweet Home Alabama–bonus points if it’s the “Roll Tide” version and Auburn fans are present.
One Toke Over the Line
Feeling Groovy (The 59th Street Bridge Song)