Another happy week in lockdown and hopefully these three songs from the Happy Hippy Chick Mix will help you to get through it.
Probably the most famous person to feature today is former child actor and Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis. On the excellent 2006 album Rabbit Fur Coat, from which the song Happy is taken, she is joined by the Watson Twins.
According to Wiki Austin based Elizabeth McQueen is a jazz artist although she has been a member of the country band Asleep at the Wheel since 2005.Prior to that she had her own band The Firebrands who somewhat bizarely produced an album of covers of songs by British Pub Rock bands called Happy Doing What We Are Doing. The tittle track which was originally by Brinsley Schwarz features here.
I know very little about Tobi Lark other that what I can glean from the sleevenotes of an album by Dave Hamilton's Detroit Dancers on the Kent label (see here) on which she contributes three songs Originally named Bessie Watson she started out as a jazz singer and changed her name to Tobi Lark as "she sang like a lark".
More potentially happy ditties soon
Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins - Happy
Elizabeth McQueen & the Firebrands- Happy Doing What We're Doing
Tobi Lark - Happiness is Here
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