Jim Adams’ Song Lyric Sunday gives us the chance to share familiar, and sometimes not so familiar, songs.
If you fancy sharing one of your favourite songs you can find out how to participate, and also listen to all the great entries, here.
I knew immediately which song I was going to offer this week. A song that meant a great deal to me in 1967 as I was trying to ensure that my first REAL love was not lost to me, even though I was going to the Middle East and would not see her for at least 9 months.
Released by The Turtles as a single in February 1967, Happy Together knocked the Beatles’ “Penny Lane” out of the number one slot on the US Billboard Hot 100 and remained Number 1 for three weeks. It was the group’s only chart-topper in the United States. “Happy Together” also reached number 12 on the UK Singles Chart in April 1967 and number 2 on the Canadian Top Singles chart.
I WAS going for the original version until I came across Miley Cyrus’ interpretation and, having found this, I now have to add it to my collection. I hope you will like it.
Because The Turtles version is so important in my musical life here it is too:
Lyrics
Imagine me and you, I do
I think about you day and night, it’s only right
To think about the girl you love and hold her tight
So happy together
If I should call you up, invest a dime
And you say you belong to me and ease my mind
Imagine how the world could be, so very fine
So happy together
I can’t see me lovin’ nobody but you
For all my life
When you’re with me, baby the skies’ll be blue
For all my life
Me and you and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it had to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together
I can’t see me lovin’ nobody but you
For all my life
When you’re with me, baby the skies’ll be blue
For all my life
Me and you and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it had to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together
Ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba
Ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba
Me and you and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it had to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together
So happy together
How is the weather
So happy together
We’re happy together
So happy together
Happy together
So happy together
So happy together (ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba)
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Alan Gordon / Garry Bonner
Happy Together lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, BMG Rights Management, Carlin America Inc, Universal Music Publishing Group
Let’s stay together Al Green
The Miley Cyrus version is really good. What ever happened to your first REAL love?
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She got engaged to someone else, I counter proposed, she broke off the engagement. I went to Germany, we wrote, then we didn’t. I think she married a solicitor. I hate solicitors!
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Great pick me up. It’s a Happy Together festival today. Thanks for sharing
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One of my old time favorites. Every time I hear this song, it takes me to the day in 1967 when I first heard it on the radio.
Thanks for sharing.
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I like Miley’s version. The song has a beautiful melody.
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It really is lovely isn’t it.
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She makes the song so much more serious than the way I heard it from The Turtles. On the other hand, I was not about to be separated from my love at the time. Of course, he did go on to marry my roommate!!
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I did this song and used Miley’s version as well. I thought it was sultry and so different. Plus she was doing it for charity! Great choice!
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Great minds and all that! I have never really listened to Miley Cyrus but was quite impressed with this, and with many other tracks I listened to.
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I liked her version! 😊
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One of my all time fav songs! Especially love The Turtles version! 🙂 Those guys still make me smile! Especially Mark Volman! 🙂
Miley has a great voice. I enjoy her, too!
How are you doing today, Peter?
HappyHUGS!!! 🙂
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Thank you. We’ve been having some really lovely sunny weather which makes for a great time in the garden battling the weeds!
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Yes, we had April showers and now May weeds. 😉 😀
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Ah, well. Her loss!!! And WOW! I have always LOVED this song!!! Had never heard the Miley version…she absolutely ROCKS! Thanks for both of these, Peter!!! Hoping You have a most wonderful day!!! 😀
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Great memories and happy thoughts.
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I always thought that was a Beatles song….
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