BOBBY MCFERRIN - DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY

DON’T WORRY BE HAPPY

BOBBY MCFERRIN

SONGWRITER: ROBERT MCFERRIN JR.

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: SIMPLE PLEASURES

LABEL: MANHATTAN RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1988

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        Simple Pleasures is the fourth studio album by American singer and musician Bobby McFerrin, released in 1988 by Manhattan Records.

  The album was McFerrin's commercial breakthrough and contained the hit single "Don't Worry, Be Happy". The song was featured in the film Cocktail and peaked at Nº 1 for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. "Don't Worry, Be Happy" won the 1988 Grammy Awards for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.

      Simple Pleasures spent 55 weeks on the Billboard 200 in the U.S., peaking at Nº. 5. On September 26, 1988, the album was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

       The album features unaccompanied a cappella singing, with all parts performed exclusively by McFerrin via overdubbing

        Robert Keith McFerrin Jr.(born March 11, 1950) is an American folk and jazz singer. He is known for his vocal techniques, such as singing fluidly but with quick and considerable jumps in pitch—for example, sustaining a melody while also rapidly alternating with arpeggios and harmonies—as well as scat singing, polyphonic overtone singing, and improvisational vocal percussion. He is widely known for performing and recording regularly as an unaccompanied solo vocal artist. He has frequently collaborated with other artists from both the jazz and classical scenes.

        McFerrin's song "Don't Worry, Be Happy" was a Nº 1 U.S. pop hit in 1988 and won Song of the Year and Record of the Year honors at the 1989 Grammy Awards. McFerrin has also worked in collaboration with instrumentalists, including the pianists Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Joe Zawinul, the drummer Tony Williams, and the cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

       McFerrin was born in Manhattan, New York City, United States, the son of operatic baritone Robert McFerrin and singer Sara Copper. He attended Cathedral High School in Los Angeles, Cerritos College, University of Illinois Springfield(then known as Sangamon State University) and California State University, Sacramento.

        His mother Sara (Copper) McFerrin was a soloist and taught voice at Fullerton College in Southern California.

Here's a little song I wrote

You might want to sing it note for note

Don't worry, be happy

In every life we have some trouble

But when you worry, you make it double

Don't worry, be happy

Don't worry, be happy now

 

Don't worry

(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Be happy

(Ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry, be happy

(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry

(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Be happy

(Ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry, be happy

 

Ain't got no place to lay your head

Somebody came and took your bed

Don't worry, be happy

The landlord say your rent is late

He may have to litigate

Don't worry, be happy (look at me, I'm happy)

 

Don't worry

(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Be happy

(Ooh-ooh-ooh) Hey I give you my phone number

When you worry, call me, I make you happy

(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry

(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Be happy

(Ooh-ooh-ooh)

 

Ain't got no cash, ain't got no style

Ain't got no gal to make you smile

But don't worry, be happy

'Cause when you worry your face will frown

And that will bring everybody down

So don't worry, be happy

Don't worry, be happy now

 

Don't worry

(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Be happy

(Ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry, be happy

(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry

(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Be happy

(Ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry, be happy.

 

Now there is this song I wrote

I hope you learned it note for note, like good little children

Dn't worry, be happy

Now listen to what I said, in your life expect some trouble

But when you worry, you make it double

But don't worry, be happy, be happy now

 

Don't worry

(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Be happy

(Ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry, be happy

(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry

(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Be happy

(Ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry, be happy

(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) don't worry, don't worry

(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't do it, be happy

(Ooh-ooh-ooh) Put a smile in your face, don't bring everybody down like this

(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry

(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) It will soon pass, whatever it is

(Ooh-ooh-ooh) don't worry, be happy

(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) I'm not worried

(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) I'm happy.