Happy Music

Here’s one of the most enjoyable music videos I have made to date. I actually made this song back in Seoul, South Korea, 2007, on one particularly beautiful morning. I was teaching some gifted students ESL at a University in the afternoons and went in and gave a demo of the song to the students. There was one great student who loved it instantly and started dancing and “grooving” in such a way that is so pleasing and affirmative for a creator to witness. It gave me more confidence in this track and I developed in more. It has great opening riff, which I originally recorded on my Fender Stratocaster. It was a great recording but I tried to make a certain vocal harmony in it, which just didn’t really add to the song and was hard to do.

Anyways several years later I found extra time on my hands breaking from my career in mental health and the healing arts. So I tried working on my songs and got a lot of positive feedback from the “And We Sing” video, so I decided to re-focus on “Happy Music” again. I ended up just using a single melody line for the “Happy Music” parts and it seemed to solve the problem. I recorded the new version in sunny Merrit, BC at Channelle Suecroft Studios, an artist friend since the 90s. With a nice new recording I went ahead and filmed a video, which included some Greenscreen footage, which turned out very well. This video features an amazingly talented friend and actress, Laurie Fraser who has acted in production in Vernon and comes from a very creative, musical family.

This video is in process of being completed soon. To make things more exciting, I decided to ask my friends to lipsync the first chorus. We’ll see how it turns out. Stay tuned.

Happy Music

I get up in the morning 
And I put on my shoes to start my day 
I drink a cup of coffee 
Then I read the news 
🎢 😊
And I want happy music 
yes I want happy music
 yes I want happy music 
yes I want happy music 

There's something about a sunrise that gives me a good vibe.
Like a newborn baby
I'm happy to be alive !
And I want happy music.
Yes I want happy music.. 
🎢 😊
Oh happy music's gonna help your soul
Happy music and you'll never grow old. 
Happy music won't make you cry. 
Happy music gonna make you high. 
Yes I want happy music 
Yes I want happy music.
Yes I want happy music
Yes I want happy music
🎢 😊
Every Monday through Friday,
 We've got some work to do, 
But it don't feel like anything baby 
while you're humming a tune 

That's why you want happy music
 Yes you need happy music 
And you Love happy music
Yes I want happy music.
🎢 😊
Mary Poppins and Disney 
Snow White and the seven dwarfs too
Taught the world this lesson
And now I'm teaching you!
That's why you want happy music
 Yes you need happy music 
And you Love happy music
Yes I want happy music.
🎢 😊
Happy music's gonna help your soul
Happy music and you'll never grow old. 
Happy music won't make you cry. 
Happy music gonna make you high!

Yes I want happy music
 Yes I want happy music.
Yes I want happy music
And you love happy music
Yes I want happy music
And I Iove happy music
Yes I want happy music 
🎢 😊

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