We’re listening to songs about happiness this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, and trying to find a way to separate songs about happiness from songs about being in love. Send your song suggestions to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com!
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King’s X, “Happy” (Tape Head, 1998)
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6:19
The Turtles, “Happy Together” (Happy Together, 1967)
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10:12
Rich Young Ruler, “Who’s Gonna Make You Happy?” (Rich Young Ruler, 1997)
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13:27
The Cure, “Mint Car” (Wild Mood Swings, 1996)
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17:39
Reading: Edmund Spenser, “Oft when my spirit doth spred her bolder wings”
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20:12
Martin Denny, “Happy Talk” (Quiet Village, 1959)
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22:35
Lester Young Quartet, “Sometimes I’m Happy” (single, 1944)
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25:40
Barney Kessel, “Happy Feeling” (To Swing or Not to Swing, 1956)
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31:32
Reading: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
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35:14
Joe Walsh, “Life’s Been Good” (“But Seriously Folks,” 1978)
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40:31
Reading: Plutarch, “Solon”
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45:29
Tom Zé, “Happy End” (Tom Zé, 1972)
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47:36
The Muppets, “Life’s a Happy Song” (The Muppets, 2011)
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49:57
The Cowsills, “The Rain, the Park, and Other Things” (The Cowsills, 1967)
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52:49
The dB’s, “We Were Happy There” (Repercussion, 1982)
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56:46
Vigilantes of Love, “This Time Isn’t One of Them” (To the Roof of the Sky, 1998)
