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For the similarly named album by The Grifters, see So Happy Together.
"Happy Together"
Single by The Turtles
from the album Happy Together
Released February 1967
Recorded January 1967
Genre Pop
Length 2:55
Label White Whale Records
Writer(s) Gary Bonner
Alan Gordon
Producer Joe Wissert
The Turtles singles chronology

"Can I Get to Know You Better"
(1966)
"Happy Together"
(1967)
"She'd Rather Be with Me"
(1967)

"Happy Together" is a 1967 song from The Turtles' album of the same name. Released in spring of 1967, the song knocked the Beatles' "Penny Lane" out of the #1 slot for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] It was the group's only chart-topper. "Happy Together" reached #12 on the UK Singles Chart in April 1967.[2] The song was written by Gary Bonner and Alan Gordon, former members of a band known as The Magicians.[1]

In popular culture[]

Film[]

The song has been featured in many movies, including: Template:Div col

  • The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970)
  • Crazy Mama (1975)
  • Heart Like a Wheel (1983)
  • Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
  • Making Mr. Right (1987)
  • La Bamba (1987)
  • Happy Together (1989)
  • Coupe de Ville (1990)
  • Pastime (1990)
  • Mermaids (1990)
  • All I Want for Christmas (1991)
  • Sleepwalkers (1992)
  • Muriel's Wedding (1994)
  • Happy Together (1997)
  • Sorted (2000)
  • Bubble Boy (2001)
  • Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
  • Adaptation. (2002)[3]
  • Cherish (2002)
  • S1m0ne (2002)
  • Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
  • Freaky Friday (2003; featured both the Turtles version and a cover by Simple Plan)
  • Ma Mère (2004)
  • Imagine Me & You (2005)
  • Blindsight (2006 documentary)
  • The Simpsons Movie (2007)
  • 27 Dresses (2008)
  • Stepfather (2009)
  • Some Velvet Morning (2013)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
  • Minions (2015)
  • 45 Years (2015)
  • Legend (2015)
  • Don't Worry Darling (2022)

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Frank Alamo's French cover of the song was featured in the 2010 movie Get Him to the Greek and the Halloween TV special Scared Shrekless. The original song was featured in one of the trailers for the 2013 film The Great Gatsby and for the 2019 film Pokémon: Detective Pikachu.

Television[]

The song has been used in episodes of:

  • The Simpsons[3] (such as "The Way We Weren't" and "Trilogy of Error")
  • The Wonder Years (multiple episodes)[3]
  • The Brady Bunch Variety Hour
  • That '70s Show (sung by the cast)
  • The Muppet Show (sung by guest star Florence Henderson with a set of Muppet Monsters and Frackles)
  • Oz
  • Cupid (sung by Lisa Loeb)
  • Scrubs
  • ER
  • America's Funniest Home Videos
  • The Big Bang Theory[4]
  • My Name Is Earl episode "Faked His Own Death"
  • Daldalita (series finale)
  • Two and a Half Men (series finale)
  • You, Me and the Apocalypse (series finale)
  • The Crazy Ones
  • The Blacklist (Series 2 Episode 14)
  • Theme song for Happy Together (2018 TV series), starring Damon Wayans Jr. and Amber Stevens
  • The Umbrella Academy (TV series) (sung by Gerard Way)

A cover of the song was the theme song for the short-lived sitcom Live-In.

The song appeared in the "Bride of Hannibal" promo for the third season of Hannibal, focusing on the relationship between Hannibal Lecter and his psychiatrist Bedelia Du Maurier.

It also appeared in Masters of Sex at the ending of episode (S04E02), with the background of the complications in the relationship between the Bill Masters and Virginia Johnson's characters.

It was also performed on the show American Idol on February 19, 2008, by David Cook, and on February 20, 2008, by Brooke White: both performances were released as live singles on the iTunes Store in 2008. On May 5, 2011, it was sung in a group performance by the top 5 contestants on the show's tenth season. On January 21, 2015, the song was featured on the TV series Stalker arranged and performed by the band SPiN.[5]

It is also the theme song for the 2018 CBS TV series, Happy Together.

Advertising[]

The song was used in 1980s Golden Grahams commercials.

A cover of the song was used in an early 1990s commercial for the American telecommunications company US West.

In 1999, the song was used for an advertisement for the crossover fighting video game Super Smash Bros.

In 2005, in markets outside of the United States, Heineken included the song in a beer commercial that starred Jennifer Aniston and Brian Thomas Smith.[6][7]

In New Zealand, Toyota used the song for its promotion of the Toyota RAV4 in 2006.[8]

In 2009, Ford used the song in Brazil for the promotion of Ford Focus. However, the Ford commercial featured its "employees" singing the song while they designed and manufactured the car rather than the original version of the song.

Since the early 2010s, the song has been a feature of Mexican Airline AeroMéxico commercials, both in television and radio advertisements. In 2013, the song was used in the Dead Rising 3 video game commercial.

In 2015, the song was covered in advertisements for the Plenti card. In November 2015, Coca-Cola featured the song from the commercial in the Philippines using their revised version.

In January 2017, the song is played in the background of a Tim Horton's commercial (Canada) .

In 2018, the song was used to advertise co-op in the video game Far Cry 5. In May 2018, the song was also used in Ireland by the Irish Ferries company in one of their promotional advertisements.

The song was featured in the first trailer for the 2019 film, Pokémon: Detective Pikachu.[9]

Sport[]

"Happy Together" is the official song of football club Melbourne City FC. The song is also played at Belmont University Men's Basketball home games during a 2nd half timeout break.

Books[]

In Stephen King's novel Gerald's Game, the psychotic burglar, necrophile, and cannibal Raymond Andrew Joubert is described to the protagonist Jessie Burlingame as singing this song in the back of a police cruiser after being apprehended breaking into a mausoleum.[10]

Covers[]

"Happy Together" has been covered by artists as diverse as Weezer, Captain and Tennille, Jason Donovan, The Northwind The Nylons, Simple Plan, Blue Meanies, Donny Osmond, T.G. Sheppard, Tahiti 80, Crave2Rock, Filter, Buck Wild and the Flobots, whose version samples the original. There is also a Spanish cover, sung by Roberto Jordan, called "Juntos y Felices". In 1999, BMI named "Happy Together", with approximately five million performances on American radio, the forty-fourth most-performed song in the USA of the 20th century,[11] placing it in the same league as "Yesterday" by The Beatles and "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon and Garfunkel. Frank Zappa's performance on Fillmore East - June 1971 is especially notable: his band at the time included Turtles vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman and bassist Jim Pons. Kaylan and Volman also did a reggae remake of the song for the last Flo & Eddie album: Rock Steady With Flo & Eddie. Hugo Montenegro's cover version was released as a single in 1969 and reached #29 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart.[12] More recently, the song has been covered by B.E. Taylor for his latest album, Love Never Fails, and by the Flobots. The song has also been sung by the Red Army Choir and the Leningrad Cowboys, as well as the English rock band Johnny Panic. It was also performed on the show American Idol on February 19, 2008, by David Cook, and on February 20, 2008, by Brooke White. In 2007 the song was used as a sample on the song "Ooh Ooh Baby" from Britney Spears' album Blackout. This song has also been covered by the Roamin' Bones of the Florida State University Marching Band, the Marching Chiefs.

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Bronson, Fred (2003). The Billboard Book of #1 Hits, 5th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 221.
  2. UK Singles Chart info Chartstats.com. Retrieved 12 June 2009.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Template:Cite magazine
  4. Potts, Kimberly (March 30, 2017). "The Big Bang Theory Recap: Fight Club". https://www.vulture.com/2017/03/the-big-bang-theory-recap-season-10-episode-19.html. Retrieved on January 7, 2019. 
  5. "Stalker Music - S1E13: "The News"". http://www.tunefind.com/show/stalker/season-1/20901. Retrieved on 2016-09-30. 
  6. "Lunch Break: "Banned" Jennifer Aniston Heineken ad". June 9, 2010. http://www.jillstanek.com/lunch-break/lunch-break-banned-heineken-ad.html. Retrieved on June 4, 2018. 
  7. "Doug’s Brush With Fame: Brian Thomas Smith". July 25, 2012. http://ksisradio.com/dougs-brush-with-fame-brian-thomas-smith/. Retrieved on June 4, 2018. 
  8. "Toyota Rav4 - Happy Together - (2006) :30 (New Zealand) | Adland ®". February 23, 2006. http://adland.tv/commercials/toyota-rav4-happy-together-2006-30-new-zealand. Retrieved on September 30, 2016. 
  9. Deschamps, Marc (November 12, 2018). "Pokémon: Detective Pikachu Movie Trailer Debuts «  Nintendojo". www.nintendojo.com. Archived from the original. Error: You must specify the date the archive was made using the |archivedate= parameter. http://www.nintendojo.com/news/pokemon-detective-pikachu-movie-trailer-debuts. Retrieved on November 12, 2018. 
  10. "Gerald's Game". http://stephenking.com/library/novel/gerald_s_game.html. Retrieved on 2016-09-30. 
  11. BMI.com News Release (December 13, 1999). "BMI Announces Top 100 Songs of the Century". BMI. Archived from the original. Error: You must specify the date the archive was made using the |archivedate= parameter. http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/232893. 
  12. Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications), page 66.

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