Happy Together (song)
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| "Happy Together" | ||
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| Single by The Turtles | ||
| from the album Happy Together. | ||
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| Writer(s) | Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon | |
"Happy Together" is a 1967 song from The Turtles' album of the same name.
[edit] 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 "The Naked Gun", 1994's Muriel's Wedding, 1997's Happy Together, 2000's Shrek, 2002's Adaptation., 2003's Freaky Friday, 2004's Ma mère, and 2006's Imagine Me and You. Freaky Friday featured a slighty different version of the song, performed by Simple Plan.
In television, the song was used in many episodes of The Simpsons including The Way We Weren't and Trilogy of Error ; and in episodes of That '70s Show and ER. It has been used in television commercials for Golden Grahams, the video game Super Smash Bros. and for npower and Twix. The song as more recently appeared on a TV ad for Smiths Chip, with the lyrics being changed to "I can't see me lovin' nobody but Smiths".
"Happy Together" has been covered by artists as diverse as Weezer and Donny Osmond. In 1999, BMI named "Happy Together," with approximately 5 million performances, the forty-fourth most-performed song of the 20th century[1], 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.
The track has been covered by English rock band Johnny Panic, with that version being used in a 2005 npower television advert.
[edit] References
- ^ BMI.com News Release. "BMI Announces Top 100 Songs of the Century", BMI, December 13, 1999.
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| Preceded by "Penny Lane" by The Beatles |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single March 25, 1967 |
Succeeded by "Somethin' Stupid" by Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra |
