Happy Heart
"Happy Heart" | ||||
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Single by Andy Williams | ||||
from the album Happy Heart | ||||
B-side | "Our Last Goodbye" | |||
Released | April 1969 | |||
Genre | Easy listening | |||
Length | 3:12 | |||
Label | Columbia Records 44818 | |||
Writer(s) | James Last, Jackie Rae | |||
Producer(s) | Jerry Fuller | |||
Andy Williams singles chronology | ||||
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"Happy Heart" is a song written by James Last and Jackie Rae. The song was recorded by both Petula Clark and Andy Williams and released as a single for each at the same time in 1969. "Happy Heart" reached #12 on the Easy Listening chart and #62 in the UK for Clark, while Williams went to #22 on the 'Billboard Hot 100, #19 in the UK, and spent two weeks at #1 on the Easy Listening chart.[1] Clark was reportedly dismayed when Williams was a guest star on her second TV special, with the plan to perform the song they were both launching as a single. In Australia both Clark's and Williams versions charted both peaking at #22.
It was notably used on the soundtrack for the British film Shallow Grave (1994), starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston and Kerry Fox, and directed by Danny Boyle.[2]
The female impersonator Holly Woodlawn lip-synced to the Clark version in the 1998 Tommy O'Haver film Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss. In 1977, the song was performed during a medley on an episode of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour.
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References
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 258.
- ↑ "Danny Boyle's Greatest Hits". Rolling Stone. April 4, 2013.