Happy Together (song)

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" Happy Together " is a song by American rock band, Turtles from Happy Together album (1967). The song was written by Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon, a former member of The Magicians. The song has been rejected a dozen times before the song was offered to the Turtles, and the acetate demo was extinct.

Released as a single in February 1967, the song knocked The Beatles "Penny Lane" out of number one slot on the US Billboard Hot 100 and remained above the chart for three weeks. It was the only group chart-topper in the United States. "Happy Together" also reached number 12 on the UK Singles Chart in April 1967 and number 13 on the Top 100 Singles of 1967 in Canada.

Video Happy Together (song)

Composition

The song is in a small F-sharp key, with a chorus in the F-sharp Mixolydian mode. The song ends on the third Picardy.

Maps Happy Together (song)

Personnel

• Howard Kaylan - main vocal
• Mark Volman - vowel
• Al Nichol - main guitar, piano, backing vocals
• Jim Tucker - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Douglas Chip - bass guitar, orchestral setting, backing vocals
• John Barbata - drums, percussion

Additional personnel

• Andy Cahan - organ
• Alan Gordon - songwriting
• Gary Bonner - songwriting

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Performance chart

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In popular culture

Movies

This song has been featured in many movies, including:

Frank Alamo's French cover of the song was featured in the 2010 film Get Him to Greece and Halloween TV Specialized Scared Shrekless . The original song is featured in one of the trailers for the 2013 movie The Great Gatsby.

Television

This song has been used in the episode:

• The Simpsons (such as "The Way We Were not" and "Trilogy of Error")
• Miracle Year (multiple episodes)
• Brady Bunch Variety Jam
• It's' 70s Show (sung by players)
The Muppet Show (sung by the guest star of Florence Henderson with a collection of Monster and Fretles Muppet)
• Oz
• Cupid (sung by Lisa Loeb)
• Scrubs
• ER
• Guilty Home Video in America
• Big Bang Theory
• My Name Is Earl episode "Falsifies Its Own Death"
• Daldalita (the final series)
• Two and Half Men (final series)
• You, Me and Apocalypse (final series)
• The Crazy Ones

The song appeared in the "Bride of Hannibal" promo for the third season of Hannibal, focusing on the relationship between Hannibal Lecter and his psychiatrist Bedelia Du Maurier.

It also appeared in the Masters of Sex at the end of the episode (S04E02), against a background of complications in the relationship between Bill Masters and the character of Virginia Johnson.

It was also performed at the American Idol show on February 19, 2008, by David Cook, and on February 20, 2008, by Brooke White: both performances were released as a live single on iTunes Store in 2008. On May 5 2011, it was sung in group performances by the top 5 contestants in the tenth season of the event. On January 21, 2015, the song was featured on the TV series Stalker compiled and performed by the SPiN band.

Ads

The song was used in the 1980s of the Golden Grahams ad.

The cover of the song was used in early 1990s advertising for US telecommunications companies in the US.

In 1999, the song was used for the advertisement of the 'Super Smash Bros.' .

In 2005, in markets outside the United States, Heineken put the song in a beer commercial, starring Jennifer Aniston and Brian Thomas Smith.

In New Zealand, Toyota used the song to promote the Toyota RAV4 in 2006.

In 2009, Ford used the song in Brazil to promote the Ford Focus. However, Ford's ads show "employees" singing songs as they design and produce cars rather than the original version of the song.

Since the beginning of 2010, the song has become an Airline feature of AeroMÃÆ' Â © xico, both in television and radio commercials. In 2013, the song was used in video game advertisement Dead Rising 3 .

In 2015, this song is covered in ads for Plenti cards. In November 2015, Coca-Cola featured songs from ads in the Philippines using their revised version.

In January 2017, this song plays in Tim Horton (Canada) ad background.

In 2018, the song was used to advertise co-op in a title known as Far Cry 5. In May 2018, the song was also used in Ireland by Irish Ferries company in one of their promotional advertisements.

Sports

"Happy Together" is the official football club football Melbourne City FC.

Books

In Stephen King's Gerald's Game, psycho-psychic thief, necrophile, and cannibal Raymond Andrew Joubert was described to protagonist Jessie Burlingame while singing this song behind a police car after being captured into the tomb.

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cover version

"Happy Together" has been covered by very diverse artists such as Odyssey, Mel TormÃÆ'Â ©, Captain and Tennille, The Nylons, The Piano Guys, Weezer, Petula Clark, Jason Donovan, Simple Plan, Caterina Valente, The Dollyrots, Blue Meanies , Donny Osmond, TG Sheppard (who will bring his version to Top 10 countries in early 1979), Tahiti 80, Filters, Flobots, Tally Hall, and Johnny Panic whose original version. Frank Alamo covered the song in 1967 in the French version titled "Heureux Tous Les Deux (Happy Together)". Spanish flamenco duo Las Grecas created a cover called "Los dos tan felices" (We are both very happy) on their album "Tercer Album" (1976) and there is also a Spanish-language cover, sung by Roberto JordÃÆ'¡n, called "Juntos y Felices ". In 1999, the BMI named Happy Together, with some five million American radio shows, the 44th most-played song in the United States in the 20th century, placing it in the same league as "Yesterday" by The Beatles and "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon and Garfunkel. Frank Zappa's performance at Fillmore East - June 1971 includes Turtles vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman and bassist Jim Pons.

Florence Henderson performed the song in the 1st season of The Muppet Show in 1976. Miley Cyrus covered the song in the YouTube Backyard Sessions series.

Kaylan and Volman also create reggae remakes for Flo & amp; Eddie's album Rock Steady with Flo & amp; Eddie .

The cover version of Hugo Montenegro was released as a single in 1969 and reached number 29 on the Billboard chart Easy Listening.

This song was borne by B. E. Taylor for his album, Love Never Fails .

The song is also sung by Red Army Choir and Leningrad Cowboys.

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

In 2014, Wim Leys, a Belgian Flemish Singer released the Dutch version: Vannacht Zijn We Samen on his Album Peper & amp; Zout (Pepper & Salt).

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Copyright claim

Flo & amp; Eddie, the legal successor to Turtles, filed a lawsuit in the New York Court of Appeals against Sirius XM Radio to make common law copyright on their original recording of "Happy Together." Because the song was recorded in 1967, five years before the federal vote was set, the group sought to establish that it was protected by common law copyright, a cryptic form of copyright held at the state level, in the hope of generating royalties from Sirius XM ( because they do not write songs, they can only accept performance royalties). The Court of Appeals has previously ruled that such common law copyright may exist for record sales in New York in 2005's ruling Capitol Records, Inc. v. Naxos of America, Inc. .

On December 20, 2016, the Court ruled that there is no such common law copyright in New York for public recording of sound recording, and that Flo & amp; Eddie can not claim royalties.

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References

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External links

• Allmusic.com Happy Sharing
• Official Turtles Official Website
• Singer Howard Kaylan's website
• Bonner-Gordon's song website
• Jason Donovan "Happy Together" (Official Video) on YouTube

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