The Happy Organ
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| “The Happy Organ” | |||||
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| Single by Dave "Baby" Cortez from the album The Happy Organ |
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| B-side | "Love Me As I Love You" | ||||
| Released | 1959 | ||||
| Length | 2:06 | ||||
| Label | Clock | ||||
| Writer(s) | Dave "Baby" Cortez, Kurt Wood | ||||
| Dave "Baby" Cortez singles chronology | |||||
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"The Happy Organ" is the name of an instrumental composition made famous by Dave "Baby" Cortez. Cortez co-composed it with Kurt Wood. In the Billboard book of Number One Singles, Cortez says that the song originally featured lyrics and a melody. He recorded a vocal for it but was unhappy with the result. He spotted the organ in the studio and on a whim decided to play the song's melody on it. "The Happy Organ" was Cortez's breakthrough single. Although he had been recording for several years prior to releasing this single, he had met with very limited success. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959, making it the first instrumental to rise to the summit of the chart, although others had topped Billboard's earlier charts.
| Preceded by "Come Softly to Me" by The Fleetwoods |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single May 11, 1959 |
Succeeded by "Kansas City" by Wilbert Harrison |
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