I Want To Be Happy

I Want To Be Happy
PROFILE
Composer Vincent Youmans
Lyricist Irving Caesar
Year Written 1925
About I Want To Be Happy
“I Want To Be Happy” is the other popular song from No, No Nanette (the other being “Tea For Two.”) It’s been steadily recorded over the years, including those by Bing Crosby, Red Nichols, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald and Sonny Rollins.

Lyrics

I want to be happy
But I won’t be happy
Till I make you happy, tooLife’s really worth living
When we are mirth-giving
Why can’t I give some to you?When skies are gray
And you say you are blue
I’ll send the sun smiling throughI want to be happy
But I won’t be happy
Till I make you happy, too

I’m a very ordinary man
Trying to work out life’s happy plan
Doing unto others as I’d like to have them
Doing unto me

Now when I find a very lonely soul
To be kind becomes my only goal
I feel so much better when I tell ‘em my philosophy

I want to be happy
But I won’t be happy
Till I make you happy, too

Life’s really worth living
When we are mirth-giving
Why can’t I give some to you?

When skies are gray
And you say you are blue
I’ll send the sun smiling through

I want to be happy
But I won’t be happy
Till I make you happy, too
happy, too
happy, too

Session / Album Information

1971-1

“I Want To Be Happy” was recorded on January 25, 1971 and released that year on the album Love Story.

I Want To Be Happy

Listen to I Want To Be Happy on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett · 1971

This recording released on:

  • 1971: Columbia 45: 4-45376
  • 1971: CBS 45: S 7342
  • 1971: Columbia LP 12″: C 30558 — Love Story
  • 2011: Disc #41 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK40) Love Story

1971-2

“I Want To Be Happy” was recorded on January 31, 1971 and released that year on the album Get Happy with The London Philharmonic Orchestra. It was arranged by Ralph Burns.

This song was recorded as part of a medley with “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.”

I Left My Heart In San Francisco/I Want To Be Happy - Live at the Royal Albert Hall, London, England - January 1971

Listen to I Left My Heart In San Francisco/I Want To Be Happy - Live at the Royal Albert Hall, London, England - January 1971 on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett · 1971

This recording released on:

  • 1971: Columbia LP 12″: C 30953 — Get Happy with The London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • 2011: Disc #42 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK41) Get Happy with The London Philharmonic Orchestra

Daybreak

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PROFILE
Composer Ferde Grofé
Lyricist Harold Adamson
Year Written 1925
About Daybreak
The song “Daybreak” was part of a classical suite of songs by Ferde Grofé called Mississippi Suite, composed in 1925. Lyricist Harold Adamson took the theme from the final movement and wrote lyrics for it, resulting in the song “Daybreak.” Dinah Washington recorded “Daybreak” for her album I Concentrate On You, released in 1960.

Lyrics

Daybreak, another new day
The mist on the meadow is drifting away
For it’s daybreak, the sun’s in the sky now
And the flowers break through their blanket of dew

Sunrise, how lovely it seems
To see from my window a sky full of dreams
As the white clouds sail on through the blue
At daybreak I daydream of you

Sunrise, how lovely it seems
To see from my window a sky full of dreams
As the white clouds sail on through the blue
At daybreak I daydream of you

Session / Album Information

1995

“Daybreak” was recorded in July 1995 and released that year on Here’s To The Ladies.  The song is in tribute to Dinah Washington. It was arranged and conducted by Jorge Calandrelli.

Daybreak

Tony Bennett · Here"s To The Ladies · Song · 1995

This recording released on:

  • 1995: Columbia CD: CK 67349 — Here’s To The Ladies   (1995)
  • 1996: Columbia CD: SRCS-7936 — Here’s To The Ladies [Japan]
  • 2011: Disc #62 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK60) Here’s To The Ladies

Always

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PROFILE
Composer and Lyricist Irving Berlin
Year Written 1925
About Always Irving Berlin wrote “Always” as a wedding gift to his second wife, Ellin Mackay (his first wife, Dorothy, died of typhoid fever in 1912), including all royalties. The song was to have been used in the Marx Brothers Broadway musical The Cocoanuts, but Berlin cut the song before the show opened. It is a very charming song and has been featured in numerous films over the years.

Lyrics

I’ll be loving you always
With a love that’s true always.
When the things you’ve planned
Need a helping hand,
I will understand always.

Always.

Days may not be fair always,
That’s when I’ll be there always.
Not for just an hour,
Not for just a day,
Not for just a year,
But always.

I’ll be loving you, oh always
With a love that’s true always.
When the things you’ve planned
Need a helping hand,
I will understand always.

Always.

Days may not be fair always,
That’s when I’ll be there always.
Not for just an hour,
Not for just a day,
Not for just a year,
But always.

Not for just an hour,
Not for just a day,
Not for just a year,
But always.

Session / Album Information

1956

This song was recorded on September 13, 1956 and release in 1957 on the album Tony.

This recording was released on:

  • 1957: Columbia LP 12″: CL 938 — Tony
  • 1989: Columbia House Music Collection CD: C22-7927 — The Great American Composers: Irving Berlin
  • 2007: Proper CD: PROPERBOX 121 — Young Tony
  • 2008: Not Now Music CD: NOT3CD010 — Three Original Hit Albums [UK]
  • 2011: Disc #10 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK10) Tony

1962

“Always” was recorded live at Tony Bennett’s concert at Carnegie Hall on June 9, 1962 and was initially released in 1962 on the album Tony Bennett at Carnegie Hall. Ralph Sharon arranged the song.

This recording released on:

  • 1962: CBS LP 12″: BPG62116 — At Carnegie Hall – Part 2 (UK)
  • 1962: Columbia LP 12″: CS 8705 — At Carnegie Hall – vol.1
  • 1962: Columbia LP 12″: C2L 23 — Tony Bennett At Carnegie Hall
  • 1962: Columbia LP 12″: C2S 823 — Tony Bennett At Carnegie Hall
  • 1993: Sony Music Special Products CD: 15056 — Tony Bennett Sings for You
  • 1995:  Sony Music CD: WK 75012 — Tony Bennett At Carnegie Hall
  • 1997: Columbia CD: C2K 64609 — At Carnegie Hall June 9, 1962: Complete Concert
  • 2011: Disc #24 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK24) Tony Bennett at Carnegie Hall

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