They couldn't prevent Jack from feeling HAP-PY!

[Trunk]

To be totally honest with ya, I have a hard time working up symphathy for the guy who rolled his Hummer while illegally 4-wheeling on Assateague.

Investigators are trying to determine why a Baltimore woman’s body was found several miles from where a sport utility vehicle crashed on the beach at Assateague Island.

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Sunday morning, surfers found Starkey’s body and the Hummer on the beach north of the park’s Sinepuxent Ranger Station, in an area off limits to off-road vehicles, Fudge said.

Link but you have to be registered, I think.

How’d that song in the commercial go. . .

But they couldn’t stop Jack, or the waters lapping.
And they couldn’t prevent Jack from feeling happy.

eerie

[Cheesesteak]

Looks like a case for CSI-Baltimore

[Homebrew]

www.esuvee.com

[ouryL]

@Trunk

To be totally honest with ya, I have a hard time working up symphathy for the guy who rolled his Hummer while illegally 4-wheeling on Assateague.

Link but you have to be registered, I think.

How’d that song in the commercial go. . .

But they couldn’t stop Jack, or the waters lapping.
And they couldn’t prevent Jack from feeling happy.

eerie

WELLLLLLLLLLLL…

I guess if they ever do a CSI: Baltimore, they know what Who song to use.

[Lamia]

The song, by the way, is titled “Happy Jack”. It was not on any of the Who’s studio albums, but can be found on various singles collections, other compilations, and live albums. I didn’t know it was in a commercial now.

I think it would be best suited to “CSI: Isle of Man”.

[LordVor]

@Cheesesteak

CSI-Baltimore

Now there’s a good idea. I hear Andre Braugher is available…

-lv

[Sublight]

@Lamia

The song, by the way, is titled “Happy Jack”. It was not on any of the Who’s studio albums, but can be found on various singles collections, other compilations, and live albums. I didn’t know it was in a commercial now.

It wasn’t on their album Happy Jack?

That’s actually a serious question. I never collected vinyl, and tapes and CDs often have different compilations.

[todd33rpm]

@Sublight

It wasn’t on their album Happy Jack?

That’s actually a serious question. I never collected vinyl, and tapes and CDs often have different compilations.

In the 1960s in the U.S., it was issued on The Who Sings Happy Jack, but I understand that it wasn’t issued that way in the U.K. The song has now been added as a bonus cut on the CD reissue of A Quick One.

Sorta like how the Beatles Rubber Soul in the U.S. was missing four songs that were on the British version, but then two different ones were added, and then…

Oh, the hell with it. These multinational entertainment conglomerates make my head hurt.

[Lamia]

@Sublight

It wasn’t on their album Happy Jack?

That’s actually a serious question. I never collected vinyl, and tapes and CDs often have different compilations.

It was, but as todd33rpm explains, that was the altered US version of the Who’s UK A Quick One While He’s Away studio album. The Who recorded and released “Happy Jack” as a single, it wasn’t an album track. But the song was successful in the US, so the Who’s American label figured they’d do well to stick it on the next album and retitle the whole thing.

The Happy Jack album is no longer in print (in the US – you may find it in Japan, I don’t know). The re-release of A Quick One was subtitled Happy Jack for the US market, but doesn’t contain the original version of the song. Anyone who wants “Happy Jack” for their collection would do better to look for the Kids Are Alright soundtrack or the Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy singles collection.

@todd33rpm

In the 1960s in the U.S., it was issued on The Who Sings Happy Jack, but I understand that it wasn’t issued that way in the U.K. The song has now been added as a bonus cut on the CD reissue of A Quick One.

The Quick One bonus track is an alternate acoustic version of “Happy Jack”, though. I guess they figured the original version was too widely available to make a good bonus track, but it seems silly not to include it!