Bobby McFerrin Don't Worry Be Happy/ Simple Pleasures, Don't Worry Be Happy (Manhattan 12", 12MT 56, 1988)
Feel good songs, how we love them and Bobby has produced one of the smilingest happiest feel goodest songs of all time. Really.
It's the kind of jaunty infectious sing-a-long that they don't seem to do any more. More's the pity.
The video (watch it, it's cool) has a cameo by the wonderfully gifted Robin Williams, who took his own life a few weeks ago.
What a shame he didn't think to revisit the song and the video-which has an attempted suicide that is prevented by the song's message. Not that it would have helped. Depressed people don't suddenly feel good because of a song do they? Who knows - maybe they do.
Hidden gem: The B side contains another song created solely (souly) by Bobby-not as memorable as the hit A side though.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence - ROBERT FRIPP. Information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth; truth is not beauty; beauty is not love; love is not music; MUSIC IS THE BEST - FRANK ZAPPA. I think we're a little happier when we have a little music in our lives - STEVE JOBS. Music in the soul can be heard by the universe - LAO TZU. Rock and Roll is fire, man. FIRE. - DAVID BRIGGS. Music grips you, gets into your soul - GEORGE MARTIN
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