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What songs always makes you smile? (Original Post) Sun-Moon Jun 4 OP
Put the lime in the coconut surfered Jun 4 #1
What movie is associated with that song? efhmc Jun 4 #14
Practical Magic I can see them all dancing around the kitchen having a great time. efhmc Jun 4 #16
Yellow Polka Dot Bikini! Mike Nelson Jun 4 #2
Get Down Tonight get the red out Jun 4 #3
I Met Harry Casey ProfessorGAC Jun 4 #7
"In the Air Tonight" k_buddy762 Jun 4 #4
Madonna: Ray of Light Coventina Jun 4 #5
I'll Go With Walking On Sunshine ProfessorGAC Jun 4 #6
Roberta Flack-"First Time I Saw Your Face" TexLaProgressive Jun 4 #8
Celebration! lark Jun 4 #9
Still Not Dead RoadRunner Jun 4 #10
Chattahoochie sung by Alan Jackson mwmisses4289 Jun 4 #11
"Popsicles Toes" by Michael Franks PJMcK Jun 4 #12
Good Day Sunshine justaprogressive Jun 4 #13
First thing that popped into my mind. FalloutShelter Jun 4 #30
Sunshine on My Shoulders - John Denver some_of_us_are_sane Jun 4 #15
Pretty much any song by John Denver makes me smile. 3catwoman3 Jun 4 #35
Never saw him in person, but some_of_us_are_sane Jun 5 #39
"Come Go With Me" The Dell Vikings KitFox Jun 4 #17
"It's Five O'clock Somewhere" Grim Chieftain Jun 4 #18
Lovwe Shine a Light LogDog75 Jun 4 #19
Make Me Smile catbyte Jun 4 #20
Sun-Moon........ Upthevibe Jun 4 #21
I like "I Can See Clearly Now" too; and I also like one of your other choices: red dog 1 Jun 4 #22
How can you not smile at this one! red dog 1 Jun 4 #23
Mr Blue Sky by ELO Archae Jun 4 #24
This one right here: True Dough Jun 4 #25
What a Wonderful World -- Louis Armstrong Tarzanrock Jun 4 #26
That's the one!!! hamsterjill Jun 4 #37
Pretty much every Shonen Knife song! johnp3907 Jun 4 #27
"Lemme Take You To The Beach" - Frank Zappa Pinback Jun 4 #28
Waiting on a Sunny Day.. live Bruce Springsteen Deuxcents Jun 4 #29
It's a Beautiful Morning CanonRay Jun 4 #31
This message was self-deleted by its author Skittles Jun 4 #32
Sly Stone's Hot Fun in the Summertime Skittles Jun 4 #33
The Cover of the Rolling Stone... 3catwoman3 Jun 4 #34
"Kick Out the Jams" The MC5 bif Jun 4 #36
The "obvious" answer is, of course - - hamsterjill Jun 4 #38
This is from the 70's, and I always found it spiritually uplifting. LudwigPastorius Jun 6 #40

ProfessorGAC

(73,126 posts)
7. I Met Harry Casey
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 08:57 AM
Jun 4

It was in the Delta lounge in Atlanta. He and his backup singers were traveling to Chicago for an appearance on local TV.
He was a crazy sucker. First, he was speaking in a British accent. He was born & raised in Florida.
Then, the accent went away & he was just an odd duck, flitting from topic to topic, most of which he had no knowledge.
His backup singers told us to excuse & ignore him because he's always like that.
They were as nice as could be, but he was just weird.

Coventina

(28,398 posts)
5. Madonna: Ray of Light
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 08:48 AM
Jun 4
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B-52's: Roam
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ProfessorGAC

(73,126 posts)
6. I'll Go With Walking On Sunshine
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 08:53 AM
Jun 4

Just stealing from you. I Can See Clearly... is another good choice.
But, the Katrina tune is just a purely happy song.

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And, then one I thought of while listening to that video. And, it's not the lyrics; there are none!
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TexLaProgressive

(12,540 posts)
8. Roberta Flack-"First Time I Saw Your Face"
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 09:19 AM
Jun 4

This song became true, the first time I saw the face of my now wife of 52 years. I was at the gym a few years ago and whatever was playing over the sound system sampled a part of that song. My trainer wanted to know why I was grinning.

lark

(25,133 posts)
9. Celebration!
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 09:33 AM
Jun 4

Great dancing song - memory of dancing to this song over and over on our first cruise - long ago.

mwmisses4289

(1,290 posts)
11. Chattahoochie sung by Alan Jackson
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 09:36 AM
Jun 4

Theme song "Believe it or not" from t.v. series greatest American hero, sung by Joey Scarbury.

Chattahoochie was the one song I would crank up if I was driving.

3catwoman3

(26,871 posts)
35. Pretty much any song by John Denver makes me smile.
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 11:03 PM
Jun 4

My husband and I saw him at the Red Rocks amphitheater in Colorado What a perfect evening.

I was heartbroken when he died.

KitFox

(316 posts)
17. "Come Go With Me" The Dell Vikings
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 01:27 PM
Jun 4

“Sh-Booom” The Chords
“Love Like This” Kennedy Rose

LogDog75

(511 posts)
19. Lovwe Shine a Light
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 02:33 PM
Jun 4

by Katrina and the Waves. This was England's entry into the 1997 European Song Contest. BBC Radio held a contest for their listeners to pick England's entry and they won. They went on to win with the most votes ever received for a song. Each country got a certain number of votes and could divide their vote, if they wanted to, among the contestants. To a degree, the contest is political in that countries who were at odd with each other if one country voted for a song the other country would deliberately vote for another song. In 1997, Love Shine a Light broke a lot of those divisions down.

Upthevibe

(9,585 posts)
21. Sun-Moon........
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 07:42 PM
Jun 4

Good post

This one makes me smile (There are a lot but this just came up in my mind).

True Dough

(23,344 posts)
25. This one right here:
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 09:49 PM
Jun 4



The only problem is, if I smile while I brush, sometimes the toothpaste winds up all over the place!

Response to Sun-Moon (Original post)

hamsterjill

(16,019 posts)
38. The "obvious" answer is, of course - -
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 11:52 PM
Jun 4

Make Me Smile by Chicago!!!

Sorry, I'm in a mood tonight! Peace.

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