C+C Music Factory

Released: December 18, 1990

Featuring: Zelma Davis

Songwriter: David Cole

Producer: Clivillés & Cole

Happy!

Ooooh

Gotta Live Happy!
Happy

Living Happy, Happy
Living Happy
Gotta Live Happy!
Living Happy, Happy
Got to Learn to Live Happy

Some people say that I cannot live this way
Living only for today
Tomorrow may never come my way
So I'm gonna try to live happy

Living Happy, Happy
Living Happy
Gotta Live Happy!
Living Happy, Happy
Got to Learn to Live Happy

OK we gonna do something right here
And it goes something like this
C'mon
Front and Front and Side and Side
Back and Back and Side and Side
Front and Front and Side and Side
Back and Back. Haha!

Now don't get me wrong
I'm not a fool
I know there are things that I must do
I've got my responsibilities
But still I can try to live happy

Living Happy, Happy
Living Happy
Gotta Live Happy!
Living Happy, Happy
Got to Learn to Live Happy

Gotta Live Happy!
Got to Learn to Live Happy

Some people say I fool of myself
But that is something I can't help
Because I was taught to believe in myself
And the right to be open and happy!

Gotta Live Happy!
Got to Learn to Live Happy

Living Happy, Happy
Living Happy
Gotta Live Happy!
Living Happy, Happy
Got to Learn to Live Happy
X2

Gotta Live Happy!

Hey!
Living Happy
Got to Learn to Live Happy
Gotta Live Happy!
Oh!
Gotta Live Happy!
Oh!

Happy, Yeah!

Gotta Live Happy!
Oh!
Gotta Live Happy!
Oh!

Happy, Yeah!
Happy, Yeah!
Gotta Live Happy!
Happy, Yeah!

Hey!
Gotta Live Happy!
X3

Happy!
Gotta Live Happy!

Happy!
Happy!
Happy!
Happy!
Happy!
Got to Learn to Live Happy
Gotta Live Happy!
Happy!
Gotta Live Happy!
Happy!
Gotta Live Happy!
Happy!
Gotta Live Happy!

Got to Learn to Live Happy

David Cole and Robert Civilles met while both working at a New York underground club. Before forming C & C Music Factory, they were primarily remixers, co-writers, producers and artist managers – having worked with Mariah Carey, Chaka Khan, Fleetwood Mac, Grace Jones, Seduction and others.

Cole & Civilles decided to launch their own music project with an ever-changing cast of vocalists. When an artist they were managing turned down the song “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)”, the duo decided to use it as their first single. They recruited a janitor from Quad Recording Studio who was learning to become an assistant engineer named Freedom Williams to perform the raps, and hired ex-Weather Girls singer Martha Wash for the female vocals – but credited them to Zelma Davis. Davis also appeared in the song’s video. Wash later sued for being uncredited in the song and its video.

The song became an international smash, reaching the top 5 in nine countries (taking the top position in five of them). Their debut album was released a month after the single and it reached #2 in the US, #8 in the UK and the top 30 in six other countries.

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