Song Lyric Sunday: Let the sunshine in 💜

Hi it’s time for Jim Adams Song Lyric Sunday for February 12, 2023 – which is Sunshine Pop suggested by John Holton.

Sunshine pop is a subgenre of pop music that originated in Southern California in the mid-1960s. Rooted in easy listening and advertising jingles, sunshine pop acts combined nostalgic or anxious moods with “an appreciation for the beauty of the world”. Wikipedia.

I have picked Happy Together for this week’s prompt. I remember this song so clearly. My friend Anne and I were out and about together weekends and summer holidays. This song by the Turtles was big then and I can remember us sitting upstairs at the front of a double-decker bus singing it at the top of our voices! Happy carefree we just had fun. This was just weeks before I met Hubby and my whole life changed!

“Happy Together” is a song written by Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon and recorded by American rock band the Turtles. It was released as a single, b/w “Like the Seasons”, in January 1967, and peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band’s first and only chart-topper there. The song also reached the top 20 in diverse countries, including number 2 in Canada and number 12 in the UK. It was later included on their third studio album, Happy Together (1967). Bonner and Gordon composed the song while still members of The Magicians. The lyrics, despite the joyous sound of the music, express an unrequited, imagined love. They recorded a demo consisting of a simple arrangement of acoustic guitar and hand claps. The demo was offered to and rejected by a dozen artists, due to its primitive sound. The Turtles, who had come from commercial and personal problems, found the demo and, thinking the song a potential hit, initially rehearsed it in live performances. They recorded their version in the Sunset Sound studio, with the newly-arrived bassist Chip Douglas arranging the horns and backing vocals.

Imagine me and you, I do
I think about you day and night, it’s only right
To think about the girl you love and hold her tight
So happy together

If I should call you up, invest a dime
And you say you belong to me, and ease my mind
Imagine how the world could be, so very fine
So happy together

I can’t see me lovin’ nobody but you
For all my life
When you’re with me, baby, the skies’ll be blue
For all my life

Me and you, and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it had to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together

I can’t see me lovin’ nobody but you
For all my life
When you’re with me, baby, the skies’ll be blue
For all my life

Me and you, and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it had to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together

Ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba
Ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba

Me and you, and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it had to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together

So happy together
And how is the weather?
So happy together
We’re happy together
So happy together
Happy together
So happy together
So happy together

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Alan Gordon / Dimitrios Anastasios Thivaios / Garry Bonner / Marlon Flohr / Michael Karl Thivaios / Ralph B A H Hilst Van / Renze Michels / Siem W G Henskens

Happy Together lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Cloud9, Downtown Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC