Get Happy! (George Shearing Album)
Get Happy may refer to: In music: * Get Happy (gospel music) * "Get Happy" (song), a 1930 song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler * ''Get Happy!'' (Ella Fitzgerald album) (1959) * ''Get Happy!!'' (Elvis Costello album) (1980) * ''Get Happy'' (Pink Martini album) (2013) * ''Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio ''Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio'' is a jazz album by American jazz pianist Randy Weston recorded in 1955 and released on the Riverside label.

Get Happy (gospel Music)
Getting happy, an experience seen almost exclusively in the Black Church and in Pentecostal churches generally, refers to the experience of being filled with the Holy Spirit, usually involving ecstatic singing, dancing, and a general spiritual fervor. It is heavily associated with shout music (as the music and the bodily expression are largely inseparable). Accounts of nineteenth century African American slave spirituality use the term, as recorded in the book ''God Struck Me Dead: Voices of Ex-Slaves''. :''All of my people were great Christians. Shouting, singing, praying, and good old heartfelt religion make up the things that filled their lives. ..Aunt Charlotte used to cry most all the time when she got happy.'' —an ex-slave preacher, in ''God Struck Me Dead'', page 75. One of the early nineteenth century traditional 'Negro Spirituals' to use the phrase, is the following: :GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY :Good morning everybody :Good morning everybody, Lord :My soul got happ ...
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Get Happy (song)
"Get Happy" is a song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler. It echoes themes of a Christian evangelical revivalist meeting song. It was the first song they wrote together, and was introduced in ''The Nine-Fifteen Revue'' in 1930. Influenced by the Get Happy (gospel music), Get Happy tradition, it is most associated with Judy Garland, who performed it in her last MGM film ''Summer Stock'' (1950) and in live concert performances throughout the rest of her life. The versions from ''Summer Stock'' finished at #61 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. An instrumental, hot jazz arrangement of the song, performed by Abe Lyman's Brunswick Records, Brunswick Recording Orchestra, served as the original theme music for Warner Bros.' ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoons from 1931 to 1933. The song lyrics incorporate the title phrase in the longer phrase "Come on, get happy", but it should not be confused with the The Partridge Family#Music, ' ...
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Get Happy! (Ella Fitzgerald Album)
''Get Happy!'' is a 1959 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, recorded with various studio orchestras over a two-year period. History The original 12 songs on the album come from 5 different sessions, featuring orchestras led by Nelson Riddle, Frank DeVol, Russell (Russ) Garcia, Marty Paich or Paul Weston. The first two tracks are from the sessions for the '' George and Ira Gershwin Songbook'', which were later included on the 1998 reissue of the album, and Berlin's "Blue Skies" was recorded at the sessions for the 1958 album '' Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook'', but inexplicably omitted from the final cut, despite featuring one Ella's most impressive extended scat improvisations. Reception Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow wrote of the album "As usual, Ella uplifts all of the material and her best moments come on "Somebody Loves Me," a heartfelt "Moonlight Becomes You," a scat-filled "Blue Skies" and (somewhat surprisingly) "St. Louis Blues." ...
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Get Happy!! (Elvis Costello Album)
''Get Happy!!'' is the fourth studio album by English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, and his third with the Attractions—keyboardist Steve Nieve, bassist Bruce Thomas and drummer Pete Thomas (no relation). It was released on 15February 1980 through F-Beat Records in the United Kingdom and Columbia Records in the United States. Following an incident on tour in March 1979 in which Costello drunkenly insulted several American artists, the artist took time off from the Attractions throughout the summer before rejoining them in October to record his next album. Produced by Nick Lowe and engineered by Roger Béchirian, the sessions began in London but moved to the Netherlands after Costello found the material derivative of his previous album '' Armed Forces'' (1979). The sessions were marred with issues but amassed a large number of songs; the final album contains 20 tracks across a single LP. Taking its title from a song of the same name, ''Get Happy!!'' is a departure from ...
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Get Happy (Pink Martini Album)
''Get Happy'' is the sixth studio album from the American musical group Pink Martini. It was released on September 24, 2013 under the band's own label, Heinz Records. Guest artists include Phyllis Diller, Philippe Katerine, Meow Meow, Ari Shapiro, the von Trapps, and Rufus Wainwright. Composition ''Get Happy'' contains sixteen tracks. " Smile", originally by Charlie Chaplin, serves as the closing track and features American actress and comedian Phyllis Diller (1917–2012). Pink Martini and Diller recorded the song in January 2012 in her living room in Los Angeles, and the group released it upon her death. In 2014 it was awarded a double silver certification from the Independent Music Companies Association, which indicated sales of at least 40,000 copies throughout Europe. Track listing # "Ich dich liebe" (Max Kolpé, Lotar Olias, Karl Vibach), featuring China Forbes # " Quizás, Quizás, Quizás" ( Osvaldo Farrés), featuring Storm Large # "I'm Waiting for You to Come ...
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