Happy Together (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Happy Together


Caption =
Artist = The Turtles
from Album = Happy Together.
Released = 1967
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Length = 2:55
Label = White Whale Records
Writer = Garry Bonner, Alan Gordon
Producer =
Last single =
This single = "Happy Together" (1967)
Next single = "The Sound of Rock and Roll" (1968)Infobox Single
Name = Happy Together (American Idol Performance)


Artist = David Cook
Released = February 20, 2008
Format = iTunes download
Recorded = Hollywood, CA USA
2008
Genre = Pop
Length = 1:46

Label = 19 TV Limited/Fremantle Media North America, Inc.

Writer = Garry Bonner, Alan Gordon
Producer =
Last single = -
This single = "Happy Together (American Idol Performance)" (2008)
Next single = "All Right Now (American Idol Performance)" (2008)Infobox Single
Name = Happy Together (American Idol Performance)


Artist = Brooke White
Released = February 21, 2008
Format = iTunes download
Recorded = Hollywood, CA USA
2008
Genre = Pop
Length = 1:48

Label = 19 TV Limited/Fremantle Media North America, Inc.

Writer = Garry Bonner, Alan Gordon
Producer =
Last single = -
This single = "Happy Together (American Idol Performance)"
(2008)
Next single = 'You're So Vain (American Idol Performance)"
(2008)

"Happy Together" is a 1967 song from The Turtles' album of the same name. Released in spring of 1967, the song knocked the Beatles' "Penny Lane" out of the #1 slot for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the group's only chart-topper.

Pop culture references

The song has been featured in many movies, including 1986's "Making Mr. Right", 1987's "Ernest Goes to Camp", 1990's "", 1994's "Muriel's Wedding", 1997's "Happy Together", 2001's "Shrek", 2002's "Adaptation.", 2003's "Freaky Friday", 2004's "Ma mère", 2005's "Imagine Me and You", 2006's documentary "Blindsight" and 2007's "The Simpsons Movie". "Freaky Friday" featured a slightly different version of the song, performed by Simple Plan.

In television, the song has been used in many episodes of "The Simpsons" including "The Way We Weren't" "Trilogy of Error", and even The Simpsons Movie ; and in episodes of "That '70s Show" (sung by the cast in the episode "That '70s Musical"), "Cupid" (sung by Lisa Loeb), "Scrubs", "ER", "The Wonder Years", and "My Name Is Earl" ("Faked His Own Death"). It has also been used in television commercials for Coldwell Banker, Golden Grahams, Florida Orange Juice (both Turtles' and Simple Plan's versions), the commercial for the video game "Super Smash Bros.", npower, Saturn Corporation, Toyota, Twix and "Extra" bubble gum. The song has appeared on a TV ad for Smith's Potato Chips, with the lyrics being changed to "I can't see me lovin' nobody but Smiths".

Covers

"Happy Together" has been covered by artists as diverse as Weezer, Captain and Tennille, Jason Donovan, The Nylons, Simple Plan, Donny Osmond and the Flobots. In 1999, BMI named "Happy Together", with approximately 5 million performances on American radio, the forty-fourth most-performed song in the USA of the 20th century, [cite news
last = BMI.com News Release | title = BMI Announces Top 100 Songs of the Century
url = http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/232893
publisher = BMI | page = | date = December 13,1999] placing it in the same league as "Yesterday" by The Beatles and "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon and Garfunkel. Frank Zappa's performance on "Fillmore East - June 1971" is especially notable: his band at the time included Turtles vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman and bassist Jim Pons. Kaylan and Volman also did a reggae remake of the song for the last Flo & Eddie album: "Rock Steady With Flo & Eddie." More recently, the song has been covered by B.E. Taylor for his latest album, "Love Never Fails", and by the Flobots. The song appeared on The Simpsons, in the episode The Way We Weren't. The song has also been sung by the Red Army Choir and the Leningrad Cowboys, as well as the English rock band Johnny Panic. It was also performed on the show "American Idol" on February 19, 2008, by David Cook, and on February 20, 2008, by Brooke White.

In 2007 the song was used as a sample on the song "Ooh Ooh Baby" from Britney Spears' album "Blackout".

References

External links

* [http://www.theturtles.com/songs/happy.html Song lyrics]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:8kmsa9wge23u Allmusic.com Happy Together]