# What is the Ultimate Feel-Good Song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 28, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-ultimate-feel-good-song/679983 "2014-01-28T22:06:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-ultimate-feel-good-song/679983/141 "2014-02-04T13:32:59Z")
[Sweet Caroline](http://youtu.be/BgSj1kmdctM). Additional feel-good due to it being a Julia Nunes cover. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-ultimate-feel-good-song/679983/142 "2014-02-04T13:40:14Z")
[Cabaret](http://youtu.be/PaNWpXcVaHw)!! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Otter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Otter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Otter)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-ultimate-feel-good-song/679983/143 "2014-02-04T13:58:51Z")
The first song that came to mind was Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves. Some of the other songs I go to to dump the blues: All Summer Long - Kid Rock Jump - Van Halen Almost Home - Mary Chapin Carpenter Get On Your Feet - Gloria Estefan Down at the Twist and Shout - Mary Chapin Carpenter Jump - Pointer Sisters (Check out Hugh Grant dancing to this in Love Actually) Navajo Rug - Jerry Jeff Walker Keep Me In Mind - Zac Brown Band Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - Bette Midler Footloose - Kenny Loggins Let It Roll - Little Feat Get Over It - Eagles What A Wonferful World - Louis Armstrong All She Wants To Do Is Dance - Don Henley She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy - Kenny Chesney Different Kind Of Fine - Zac Brown Band Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams Rock and Roll All night - Kiss Boogie Woogie Stomp - The Majestic Soundtrack (Jim Cox) Accidentally In Love - Counting Crows Jump, Jive, & Wail - Brian Setzer Orchestra Who Says You Can’t Go Home - Bon Jovi (with Jennifer Nettles) Centerfield - John Fogarty Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven - Kenny Chesney Moondance - Van Morrison Scarlet Begonias - Grateful Dead Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon There are so many others. YMMV ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-ultimate-feel-good-song/679983/144 "2014-02-04T14:06:14Z")
Mack the Knife! 9:06 am real oldies, spirit in the sky So many good ones listed! ---
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-ultimate-feel-good-song/679983/145 "2014-02-04T16:34:34Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > I can’t believe we’ve gone this far and no Jimmy Buffett! > ["It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCjC543llU) with Alan Jackson > [“One Particular Harbor”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5qI9lHO8Zs) > > ETA: How could I forget [Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Screw"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH-cPckntEY)? A couple of the previous songs, I knew as the Jimmy Buffett covers. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-ultimate-feel-good-song/679983/146 "2014-02-04T17:10:41Z")
Here’s a couple “out of left field” - Tom Chapin (brother of Harry) does kid songs. He’s as cheerful as Harry is melancholy. 😃 These two, I liked so well they’re on my playlist. (Talk about yer guilty pleasures!) [“Family Tree”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6xtZS5SX1Q) It explores the concept (amusingly) that if you go far enough back, everyone’s related. ♫ Before the days of Jello, lived a prehistoric fellow, Who loved a maid and courted her beneath the banyan tree … ♫ “What does a Didgeridoo Do?” (Not on Youtube that I can find.) Witty limerick verses about musical instruments with a chorus that describes a didgeridoo. ♫ In Hawaii I learned ukelele, From a young hula dancer named Hayley. She said “I like to play As I practice my sway … So, I ukelele daily!” ♫ ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-ultimate-feel-good-song/679983/147 "2014-02-04T17:14:52Z")
[Windy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHpwzpaFI4g) The Association ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-ultimate-feel-good-song/679983/148 "2014-02-04T17:35:34Z")
First one that popped into my head was “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go” Wham!. Second one to pop into my head was “Don’t Worry Be Happy,” but that’s already been mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![jrsone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jrsone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrsone)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-ultimate-feel-good-song/679983/149 "2014-02-04T17:48:37Z")
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime (Especially on the first day of summer) Ramones - Hey Ho Kool & The Gang - Hollywood Swinging ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-ultimate-feel-good-song/679983/150 "2014-02-05T00:16:26Z")
70’s AM Radio is often considered a stain on humanity, but I love it: [I Wanna Kiss You All Over](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXZ236iBa60) - Exile [I Love You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvDwr9-MlfE) - Climax Blues Band (love the line, “I was playing around, feeling down, hitting the beer”… hitting the beer?!?) [Rock Me Gently](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ym3RlvVR9M) - Andy Kim [Life is a Rock](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16kh-AP4OCU) - Reunion [Midnight at the Oasis](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whYiOJ2iBE0) - Maria Muldaur [Come on Get Happy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvgzNEPhYQA) - The Partridges [Undercover Angel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8JQqQRBioU) - Alan O’Day [Arizona](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhdiSqt6sXE) - Marc Lindsay ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-ultimate-feel-good-song/679983/151 "2014-02-05T00:17:41Z")
Some good feelin’ Disco: [Born to be Alive](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UaJAnnipkY) - Patrick Hernandez [Rubberband Man](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKbADFJOCkU) - The Spinners [We Are Family](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNAQ8LLptUo) - Sister Sledge [You Sexy Thing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-m9uG50mSw) - Hot Chocolate [YMCA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k) - The Village People (great video!) ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-ultimate-feel-good-song/679983/152 "2014-02-05T05:30:25Z")
> [@DMC](#): > > [Cosmic Love - Florence + The Machine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EIeUlvHAiM) We’ll have to go to the [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnBau6fL8S8)for an expert’s opinion on the most inspiring Florence and the Machine song. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-ultimate-feel-good-song/679983.md?page=7)