Joyful, happy songs

"Born to be Alive"

"I Can See Clearly Now."

🙏 to live long enough to see this evil extinguished, and decency restored.

Trump is doing everything he can think of, including literally moving the capital, to preclude getting back to the Golden Biden Years (yeah, you heard me), when no child had died of measles; when Medicaid was off-limits; when we helped Ukraine; when AP and Reuters could question the President; when the CDC could share information with the public; when people weren't fired from government jobs en masse; when roads and bridges were repaired; when usurious student loans were forgiven; when preparations were made for the next year's flu vaccinations; when we liked NATO; when we followed he US Constitution and Federal laws....

When US citizenship wasn't for sale to money-laundering Russian oligarchs, described as "good people" by the President of the United States, for $5 million, to get a "Gold Card" like America was a casino.

Maybe we need to wear BLUE "MAGA: PRE-25" hats.

Tell me again about Uncle Joe's debate performance, Grandpa. And how awful Miss Kamala's laugh was.

Link:

"Cities" by Talking Heads

The Hawkins Singers "Oh Happy Day"

^oops Hawkins Singers

"Happy-Go-Lucky-Me" (Paul Evans)

^^ double oops

Hawkins Singers

If Not for You by ONJ always perks me up.

The beautiful "Summer Guest" from Ásgeir

I love the Go-Go's - Head Over Heels - fun, catchy, upbeat, great music

Tierney Sutton's cover of "Indiana/Donna Lee"

The joyful, happy song that made you want to kill yourself because it was fucking overplayed:

Vincent by Don Mclean.

"Race for the Prize" - Flaming Lips

"Alright" by Supergrass

“Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes”

Wow, r17. Have not heard that one in MANY years. Thanks for the memory!

R14 did not understand the assignment at ALL.

Great ones - more please

"Find the Answer Within" by The Boo Radleys, culminating in the exuberant Beatlesque outro:

So 1980 and ELO, and ONJ's "dancing" has me LOL.

Padam Padam - A fun one

joy...

Celebrate -- Kool and the Gang

One person...

Ice Cold Katie

Hattie McDaniel and Willie Best from “Thank Your Lucky Stars,” Warner Brothers, 1943

"Good Vibrations" - Beach Boys

"Uptown Funk" - Bruno Mars/Mark Ronson

Hallelujah

Jesus Dropped the Charges

"Livin' La Vida Loca"- Ricky Martin

Love Train.

"Shiny Happy People" - REM

Everlasting Love.

"Let's Go Crazy" - Prince

Fiesta in Rio

The one and only

I searched the thread for the Coca Cola polar bears, but nothing came up. Late 70s, early 80s

🎶 "I'd like the world to sing in perfect harmony..." 🎶

I think there was even a polar bear chorus.

Now, leopards roam.

You Gotta Get A Gimmick

Paul O’Grady, Cilla Black, and Barbara Windsor

It really makes me feel happy.

I Feel Fine by the Beatles.

Coca-Cola song origins.

Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine

Oops. I can't believe I scrolled by it. Sorry

Witches' Song

"Dear Prudence" and "I Am the Walrus"

"Dusic" -- Brick

Also a great riding around town song in your car with the windows down.

Merely...

"Passenger," Grateful Dead.

Years ago I created an Amazon Music Playlist I named "Joyful, Kicky"; this was the very first song I added to it. I can't NOT move when I hear it.

I adore this song. I think it was from Black Orpheus, but here it's sung by Miss Peggy Lee.

If They Could See Me Now by Pearl Bailey I listen to a lot of Pearl when I'm down. She's just a fun singer.

"I know it's over"

Cherish, cherish…

Take on Me, by A-ha, 1984.

The gentle, acoustic version of the song A-ha performed on MTV’s Unplugged in 2017 is just as memorable, but in a more nostalgic way.

$$$

I always post this so there have to have been more than a couple threads like this but what the hell. I’ve been having a bad day for 2 months.

This always puts me in a good mood: Sweet Gingerbread Man, but the Mike Curb Congregation. Nostalgically cheesy, innocent, colorful fun.

The theme from The Mary Tyler Moore Show...

"Who Can Turn The World On With Her Smile?"

Moon Shadow by The Cat!

“I need you inside me tonight!”

Overcomer by Mandisa (RIP)

"Ain't No Stopping' Us Now" -- McFadden & Whitehead

Lovely Day by Bill Withers

I Don't Want to Know by Fleetwood Mac.

Spirit in the Sky

Are You Having Fun?

Don't tell me you're not singing along.

"Daydream Believer"

Beach Boys- Wouldn't it be Nice?

I don't know why but this song makes me feel better

When this comes on in the grocery store I'm a goner. Dancing through the aisles.

Don't Cry Out Loud---Melissa Manchester

Crying---Roy Orbison

Tracks of my Tears----Smokey Robinson

Swedish pop perfection.

R70 When this song came out, I thought the lead singer was so cute.

Deee-Lite: Groove Is In the Heart.

This was the exact moment the 80s became the 90s.

I like those 4 big stones Judy wears in her number at OP.

R71 Gregg Alexander wrote Murder on the Dancefloor.

Thanks, R63. I really needed that!

Neil Sedaka's offering.

Another Grateful Dead song, this one from their debut album in '67.

It is so absolutely joyful and kicky, I've always wished the band didn't shelve it and essentially ignore it in favor of their long jammy songs.

"The Golden Road (to Unlimited Devotion)"

The Cure -- Friday I'm In Love

Here's to *us*...

Richard Thompson - I Feel So Good

Brisbane Pub Choir with a cast of thousands having joyful, fun with John Paul Young's "Love Is in the Air."

Mississippi Mud/ Bobby Darin w/ Johnny Mercer

'Good Morning Starshine' by Oliver, original version ONLY: re-records aren't the same.

Petula Live!!

Well, almost

NO! Enough with this "Joyful, Happy" bullshit!

R89, do you not see the title of this thread?

I'll purposely drive you more crazy. I know a lot of you don't like Jimmy Buffett, but one can't get depressed over a song about cheeseburgers. (and despite the rumors, he says it really was just about cheeseburgers)

Cheeseburgers? We should probably add The Ketchup Song.

Mamas and Papas

All Over the World

Vadge

Miss Warwick and The Spinners

Top of the World

Let the Sunshine In

Barbra Streisand - "His Love Makes Me Beautiful", "The Swan", "I'm the Greatest Star", "Sadie, Sadie", "I'd Rather Be Blue Over You"

I've been playing the "Funny Girl" soundtrack an awful lot lately mainly to hear these fun / happy songs.

Instant Replay by the very talented Dan Hartman.

The world is not collapsing any more than it has been for the last 100 billion years and that's because the world is a circle.

Here's some "joyful, happy..." Yeah.

(Actually, Freddie...)

This one's probably still in most DataLounger's Top 10.

Pennsylvania Polka.

Thanks for posting, [R57] - that was amazing! It was my first time seeing it. I hope your days get better and good things come to you.

This is so so so tacky, but I love it anyway.

Dusty fabulosity

PSB

Vicky Sue

Pee-Wee's Playhouse Theme

Jason Mraz - You and I Both

Black Box - Everybody Everybody

CeCe Peniston - Finally

Livin' Joy - Dreamer

Irene Cara - Fame

Regina Richards — Baby Love

One of the greatest pop songs EVER.

Big Country - In A Big Country

Sorry for the multiple posts, I'm melancholy AF at the moment.

And know "Love Plus One" isn't joyful or happy, but the music is so good it makes me feel kinda joyful

Love all those r117. Hope you start feeling better.

"Look for the Silver Lining."

"Put on Your Sunday Clothes" - Streisand and the movie cast of 'Hello Dolly!' How can anyone not have their spirits lifted after listening to this ?

Lullaby of Broadway

I’ve Still Got My Health

The B-52s are kinda known for their party songs. "Love Shack" is a pretty joyful, happy song.

Lately, I haven't been in the best of moods, (Daddy, needs some lovin'). This clip makes me happy, just joyful. This is from 1967's, "Rodgers & Hart, Today" with Bobby Darin, Petulia Clark, The Supremes, along with Count Basie performing, Rodgers & Hart's, "Mountain Greenery". As an added bonus, we've got, Homegirl, in the gray suit, dancing for Gay Pride. Hope this brings a smile to you all, as it's done to me.

One of my favorite 'happy' songs ... Tab Hunter singing "Young Love" live.

The way he looks is so cute - shy, smiling and putting his head down more than once. It's like he can't believe he's actually doing this ..lol. And you can tell some of the backup crooners are really pulling for him. And of course that big sigh of relief at the end .. just makes me smile.

Together in Electric Dreams, from Electric Dreams

"In The Summertime."

Have a drink, have a drive, go out and see what you can find.

r5 r6 r8 "Oh Happy Day" reminds me of Leviticus and Saint Paul. How is that joyful?

Sunshine day

Lately I've been listening to Philip Glass's "Anthem Pt. 2" from Powaqqatsi - more familiar to most from a key scene in The Truman Show. It fills me with a sense of expansive hope and transformative possibilities. Love it.

I just discovered this song in 2025 =

Marry You - Bruno Mars

Isaac's Live Lip-Dub Proposal

Now you wanna talk about joyful? This is the JAM!

Oreo Dare to Wonder

90s dance is STILL better than anything current.

Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love

Thinking about it a lot of their songs are lighthearted and fun.

R39, here's your coke commercial.

"Pretty World" - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, featuring Lani Hall & Karen Philipp.

How about something from 2025?

Babyface - It's No Crime

Joy!!!

bump.

I think that on a day like today we need joyful happy songs more than ever.

Any excuse to post this. What's more joyful than Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"?

Side note: This video has been around for 12 years and has over 95 million views. And the conductor is cute.

The Sundays - Summertime

R89 = Miss Hannigan

Rubberband Man by The Spinners.

Here’s the edited version (the other one is over 7 minutes long) . It’s so groovy.

Phyllis Hyman and “You Know How To love Me”

Here’s Haircut 100 and “Fantastic Day”.

A CLASSIC.

Odyssey and “New Yotk City Girl”

Dave Wakeling, the lead singer at r115 played my university right after the Beat broke up and he and Ranking Roger had formed General Public. I was on the Concert Committee and we all panicked when we were told that he had left the arena to go have a pint and was finally found at a nearby bar, depressed at being stuck in a career he was not happy with. They lured him back and the second act opened with r115's song, and I thought the place was going to collapse with the weight and frenetic energy of every dancing in a frenzy. I still think of him and his sadness (unbeknowst to all the fans loving his performance)...

R150 I love this song, but it's not exactly "joyful and happy."

If you listen to the lyrics, it's really a bleak story about a woman born and raised in New York whose life is passing her by.

R152 Right. It's actually very melancholy, about lost hopes and unfulfilled dreams. That said, it's still a great 1970s pop tune with a sound that really invokes the era and brings back memories.

"Where did all those yesterdays go?

When you still believed life could really be like a Broadway show.

You were the star, when did it close?"

One doesn't usually think of Depeche Mode in the "joyful-happy" column, but this early performance of "Just Can't Get Enough" from 1982 on French TV always makes me smile. Great harmonizing.

Shalamar! "Make that Move"!

Can't forget this!

Shalamar "Take That To The Bank"!

The International Sweethearts of Rhythm: "How 'Bout that Jive?" featuring vocalist/trumpeter Tiny Davis.

Swinging, raunchy and happy!

Happy Days Are Here Again. Vanessa Williams here, while winning the Miss America Pageant in 1983.

The Fifth Dimension and Laura Nyro were frequently a happy combo.

Mr. Blue Sky by ELO

R148: My 14-year-old self, thanks you.

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Lookin' Out My Backdoor

Summer Breeze by Simon and Garfunkel.

Talk about, talk about, talk about it!

Talk about moooooovin'!

🎶I have type 2 diabetes but i manage it well...

Spirit in the Sky. You don't need to be religious to enjoy this foot tapper.

R166 I just came home from Dollar Tree and that was one of the songs that I heard playing on their Muzak while I was there.

Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' from "Oklahoma!"

"Oh, what a night"

Stars Above Us

Goldfrapp - Number 1

An old but fun classic from the scandalous Jo Ann Castle, performing on the Lawrence Welk show.

My Blue Heaven and You Make Me Feel So Young.

Rosemary Clooney's versions. Her versions are far superior than other recordings of the song.

What's more joyful and happy than a dog?

Donna Summer - I Feel Love

Enrique Iglesias - Bailando

(3.6 billion views!)

Then again, it doesn't take much to make me happy and make me smile with glee.

"Beach Baby" is exactly 5 minutes of aural sunshine. First class, indeed.

This Love Is Love remix by Kim Wilde =

This Toxic mashup...

Lenny K's "Let It RIde" remix

Let It Ride remix #2

The B-52s - Roam

Falling - Cathy Dennis

3 Little Birds - Bob Marley

"Don't worry about a thing. Cause every little thing gonna be all right"

feel like reviving this, just cause I'm listening to this and feeling happy about it.

Come and get your love song.

Hot Chocolate - "You Sexy Thing"

The Deadbeat Club

Utah Saints - "Something Good"

I'm putting this video of the song up, because it's a pretty funny farce with "The Royal Family."

The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination

Jaxomy & Agatino Romero's remix of Raffaella Carrà's song "Pedro"

How is this song not here yet? Joy is even in the title.

"Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night.

animal spirits

Love is Like This