Simply Happy Songs or Music of all time that leave one feeling good!

[Frankeneinstein]

 

[The Professor]

 

[The Professor]

Beer Barrel Polka,two versions:

 

[Ridgerunner]

I always get a big ole shit eating grin on my face every time...

 

[Ridgerunner]

hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba

 

[The Professor]

 

[LittleNipper]

I love this song because it actually provides one with a train ride into the past as we travel on Palace Train across the continent of North America. It's exciting and invigorating --- ALL ABOARD!
Crossing the Grand Sierras
by Henry Clay Work (Who also wrote My Grandfather's Clock)



All aboard! All aboard!

The hissing breath of the iron steed
Proclaims his wish to be quickly freed;
And soon as the stroke from the bell we hear,
He springs at the touch of his engineer

And away we glide (With a rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble)
O'er prairies wide, (rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble)
Through verdant vales (rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble)
And mountain dales, (rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble)
To the last great chain, (rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble)
Which has striv'n in vain (rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble)
With the Lightning! the Lightning!
The Lightning Palace Train!

Forgetting far Atlantic
And midway scenes romantic,
We scale the peaks gigantic
Which guard the Land of Gold:
Her silver rills are leaping, (The drivers of steam locomotive)
Her lovely legs are sleeping, (The track)
And snowclad granites keeping
Their watch of years untold.

We sing a wondrous story
No nation sang before!
A Continental Chorus
That echoes either shore:
We sang it on the summit!
We sing it on the plain!
We've climbed the Grand Sierras
With the Lightning Palace Train,
With the Lightning! the Lightning!
The Lightning Palace Train.

All aboard! All aboard!

No toil can tire our impatient steed,
So once again will we test his speed!
How quick is the wish of our heart obey'd!
He starts at the turn of the downward grade,

And again we glide (With a rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble)
By torrent side, (rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble)
O'er trestl'd deeps, (rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble)
Through tunnel'd steeps, (rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble)
While the vict'ries wane (rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble)
Which they sought to gain (rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble)
With the Lightning! the Lightning!
The Lightning Palace Train.

'Neath timber'd roofs unending, (The fact is that through the mountainous portions the track was often roofed over against avalanches and heavy snows)
From winter's snows defending,
Through canyons wild descending
To the City of the Plain:
We leave the scenes terrific,
We pass the fields prolific,
And view the broad Pacific—
The Golden-Gated main.

We sing a wondrous story
No nation sang before!
A Continental Chorus
That echoes either shore:
We sang it on the summit!
We sing it on the plain!
We've climbed the Grand Sierras
With the Lightning Palace Train,
With the Lightning! the Lightning!
The Lightning Palace Train.

 

[The Professor]

 

[LittleNipper]

And who hasn't tried to sing this when little?

 

[LittleNipper]

And who lived through the 1950's and never heard this playing in the big department stores downtown while on a shopping trip with mom, dad and the kids...

 

[Rambunctious]

 

[LittleNipper]

Who imagined that the Ames Brothers were singing about a BABY?!?! Well, it was the Baby Boomer generation!!!

 

[LittleNipper]

Anyone who either lived 100 years ago or who now collects vintage recordings once knew or heard of Billy Murray. Played this for a class of kindergarten kids and they loved it just as much today as they must have "yesterday"!

 

[LittleNipper]

AND, here is a song that could have been a hit but never existed back in the day! It does though make me smile and feel happy! PS> You've got to see this movie, it does a good job of imitating what was or might have been... THAT THING YOU DO

 

[LittleNipper]

ROUND AND ROUND -- Perry Como 1957. I had this as a little kid and played it to death on my Victor 45 RPM record changer that would repeat and repeat and repeat a record until MOM would holler, "Alright already!"

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

 

[LittleNipper]

KEEP YOUR SUNNY SIDE UP! Johnny Hemp 1929

 

[Frankeneinstein]

awesome

 

[LittleNipper]

In a time before Sponge Bob, and when black and white was king, there was The Alvin Show. Here's a tribute to Mrs. Frumpington ---- wherever you are...