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Oh How Happy is a song written by Edwin Starr. It was a hit for the group The Shades of Blue. [1] In the early 1980s, it was a minor hit for New Zealand based New York City soul singer Herb McQuay. Many artists have covered the song.
"Oh Happy Day" (not to be confused with the gospel hit of the same name) was known as the "people's hit" since it became a national United States hit song as well as an international hit without any initial support from the music industry. Because the song was credited to an amateur, it flew under the radar of professionals in the music business.
Their biggest hit was the song "Oh How Happy", recorded in the fall of 1965 and released in early 1966, written by Edwin Starr, [2] which reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, number 16 on the US Billboard R&B chart [4] and the Top 10 in Canada. That same year, the song "Lonely Summer", again written by Starr, reached number 72, and ...
"Oh Happy Day" is a 1967 gospel music arrangement of the 1755 hymn [1] by clergyman Philip Doddridge. Recorded by the Edwin Hawkins Singers, it became an international hit in 1969, reaching No. 4 on the US Singles Chart, No. 1 in France, Germany, and the Netherlands and No. 2 on the Canadian Singles Chart, UK Singles Chart, and Irish Singles Chart.
Beatles historian Bruce Spizer writes that this was due to Harrison being "so focused on the feel of his record", [80] while Record Collector editor Peter Doggett wrote in 2001 that, despite Harrison's inspiration for "My Sweet Lord" having come from "Oh Happy Day", "in the hands of producer and arranger Phil Spector, it came out as a carbon ...
"Get Happy" is a song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler. It was the first song they wrote together, and was introduced by Ruth Etting [citation needed] in The Nine-Fifteen Revue in 1930. [1] The song expresses the gospel music theme of getting happy, an expression of religious ecstasy for salvation.
The lyrics are about a narrator finding happiness after a divorce. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Stereogum 's Tom Breihan said that Swift's narrator on the song is in a "mid-breakup" and tries to console both herself and the person she hurt ("There'll be happiness after you / But there was happiness because of you / Both of these things can be true / There is ...
"Happy" is a song written by Michel Legrand and Smokey Robinson and first recorded by Bobby Darin. [1] The song was first released as a single by Bobby Darin on November 23, 1972, peaking #67 on the Billboard Hot 100, [2] it was his last single to hit the chart. [3] The song was included on his posthumous Motown LP Darin: 1936–1973.