What song do you go to for JOY?

[CTyankee]

Mine is either "Ode to Joy" by Beethoven --"Freude, Freude" or "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night. Both make me happier right away.

[debm55]

1. Joy to the World--Three Dog Night.

[luvallpeeps]

2. This right here.💃🏽

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[SheltieLover]

3. Ode to Joy, of course!

[Ptah]

4. "SING, SING, SING" BY BENNY GOODMAN

[some_of_us_are_sane]

34. Yes! Yes! Yes!

Especially with Gene Krupa on drums!!!!

[Sneederbunk]

5. This

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[TommieMommy]

6. So many good ones but the top ones are

Cool Change, Baker Street and most anything from Fleetwood Mac 👍

[Native]

7. Happy does it for me every time.

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[EverHopeful]

13. Oh yes!

Always

[catbyte]

8. Nina Simone

[CTyankee]

9. This woman is a goddess...her voice makes me cry tears of joy...

[House of Roberts]

10. I'll go with this one today.

[Figarosmom]

24. Yes

Fanfare to the common man

[some_of_us_are_sane]

35. Fills my heart

to bursting. Yes.

[Figarosmom]

38. Saw them preforming this

At Soldiers Field in ChicAgo

Last thhim they had the orchestra with them. It was magical.

[GreatShakes66]

11. "Jump in the Line"

Harry Belafonte

[EverHopeful]

12. This one works for me

Possibly 'cause it brings back memories of Harold and Maude

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[Mad_Dem_X]

14. Feeling Good (Michael Buble)

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[eppur_se_muova]

15. Text by Friedrich Schiller. Setting the poem to music was apparently something Beethoven wanted to do ...

for a long time before he actually completed the chorus.

[Ocelot II]

16. Pretty much anything by Mozart,

especially The Marriage of Figaro. I think his music makes me joyful because it's so absolutely brilliant and it reminds me that people can create amazing things.

[CTyankee]

17. Did you see the film "Amadeus" which was about him? If not, you can probably get it on youtube...

He was portrayed as being childish but I guess that was the point. He had a spirit that was playful but his music was divine.

[Ocelot II]

19. One of my all-time favorite movies, I have the DVD with the director's cuts.

It's not historically accurate (Salieri didn't poison Mozart) but it's a wonderful and sad movie: the scene where he's buried in the rain and the accompanying music is the Lacrimosa from the Requiem just kills me. I keep wondering what Mozart would have created if he'd lived longer - we have lost some magnificent music, I'm afraid.

[CTyankee]

20. I'd love to see it again!

[some_of_us_are_sane]

36. Here 'ya go... watch it for free!

https://www.operaonvideo.com/amadeus-full-movie-1984/

[Ptah]

18. One more: Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (Live at Kennedy Center Honors)

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Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (Live at Kennedy Center Honors)

[BOSSHOG]

21. Give FREEDOM by John Batiste a look. Guaranteed Joy

[Skittles]

22. What a Wonderful World

[some_of_us_are_sane]

37. Big GRIN on this one!

Satchmo is the ultimate for smiles.

[Skittles]

45. the song is just a little over two minutes long

but.....so powerful. I agree, I am fortunate enough to remember Satchmo - can you believe he has been gone over fifty years now? He always made me smile.

[OldSWODog]

23. "5, 6 and 7"

from the album Up Above the Rock by the Ray Bryant Trio (circa 1974)...cheers, OSD

[Figarosmom]

25. Its a beautiful morning

Young rascals
And
Grazing in the Grass
Friends of distinction

One more I forgot
I Feel Good
James Brown
I remember Rev AL doing this one splits and all when he was much younger. My Dad used to sing this too w/o the splits.

[PortTack]

26. Here comes the Sunil

[Tetrachloride]

27. Up Around The Bend -- Creedence Clearwater Revival

[ultralite001]

28. Brother Iz --Somewhere over the Rainbow

[GReedDiamond]

29. Grateful Dead - "Box of Rain"

[vanlassie]

30. It was the morning after Barack Obama won the first term.

I was heading into work late after the night before. I was playing this in my car. As I turned to enter the parking lot, I waited for a young woman on the sidewalk to cross in front of my car. She was black. She was wearing a Barack Obama tee shirt! Our eyes met in joy and I threw it into park and jumped out and ran to her and she ran to me and we hugged. Then I went on in and she walked on.
Heavenly Day by Patti Griffen.

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[duncang]

31. There's so many

I like that have already been listed. I went through and liked several here.

My main two I like to just sit back and unwind is Sitting on the dock of the bay by Otis Redding. Aretha Franklin’s Say a little prayer for me.

Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Credence Clearwater, Cat Stevens, the Who, Aretha Franklin, Louis Armstrong, Pink Floyd, the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Simon and Garfunkel the list just goes on and on.

[SamKnause]

32. Anything from Mark Knopfler's catalog.

[k55f5r]

33. Glad

By Traffic.

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[Doc_Technical]

39. Yes- We Have Heaven

[some_of_us_are_sane]

40. Theme from Chariots of Fire

(Amazing just to watch that incredible instrument being played.) I can't hear this song without filling up with tears of joy.)

[CTyankee]

41. Stirring! I have always been moved by it. I LOVE that movie!

[some_of_us_are_sane]

42. I tear up just thinking about it

I'm a big marshmallow. LOL!

[Boomerproud]

61. When I watch that film I think of the heroic story of Eric Liddel

and how he died so young in the POW camp in China.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

43. Theme from Zorba the Greek

Dance? Did you say, "Dance?" Come on my boy!

I grin from ear to ear watching Anthony Quinn in that last scene!

(Then the song slips into my heart again.)

[surrealAmerican]

44. Dancing in the Street

[electric_blue68]

47. Another great one 👍

[electric_blue68]

46. I immediately have two: B-52's/Roam, U2/City of Blinding Lights

I will sometimes sing them when I'm feeling happy.

And I was lucky enough to see & hear U2 play that song live in the MTV film they did of them playing next to the Brooklyn Bridge in a park, after riding around Manhattan on a flatbed truck playing; before they went on tour the next year.

[AKwannabe]

48. This is my go to

I watch the whole video often.
Togetherness edited from loneliness.
Two new versus.
Dave Grohl, too!
All artists listed at end of video and I found a few new artists to check out and listen to them often too.

Makes me happy.


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[CTyankee]

49. song is nice...video, not so much

[Lulu KC]

50. Discovered after he was popular

This was the music for a modern dance performance I saw several years ago that was given by a ballet company. I have loved it ever since.

[johnnyplankton]

51. Happiness Is Just Around the Bend - The Main Ingredient (or Brian Auger, link below)

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[Arne]

54. A blast from the past.

May dust off this old album.

[no_hypocrisy]

52. I'm Alive -- ELO

[thucythucy]

53. "Romance" by Wild Flag

[redstatebluegirl]

55. Happy by Farrell Williams!

[NNadir]

56. Joe Cocker's "You Are So Beautiful" because nothing brings me...

...more joy than my marriage to my wife.

When we were younger, I also liked his, "You can leave your hat on."



It might not play well in a political convention though.

[CTyankee]

60. I adored that Joe Cocker song and I mourned his tragic death.

But I had to wonder about "You can leave your hat on."

[Upthevibe]

57. CTyankee

This song with video brings me a tremendous amount of joy!

[oasis]

58. "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" from Hello Dolly.

Makes me want to kick up my heels.

[GoodRaisin]

59. Move on Up - Curtis Mayfield

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