I have just the tonic…..:)
A few years ago, someone introduced me to the songs of Tom Lehrer. He was quite a famous singing comedian/writer/satirist in the 50s and 60’s. He sings and plays the piano and it took me about thirty seconds into his first song to realize,” Did HE just SING that??” It is the funniest musical CD I have ever heard because the songs are witty, silly and extremely well-crafted and others have bits off totally off-the-wall dark humor.
Lehrer, interestingly enough was also a mathematician, graduated from Harvard with a B.A. and M.A. and even worked at Los Alamos…but his fame came through his songs and his writing. In one song called “The Elements” he puts all the elements in the periodical table to the “Major-General’s Song” from “Pirates of Penzance.” It’s something only a songwriter who graduates from Harvard would think of doing, I think and making it really funny, too.
Definitely, if you are down….please give a listen. You will not be in the doldrums after this. He has a lot of CD’s but the one that I have heard is this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Concert-Tom-Lehrer/dp/B000026FOX/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1258319493&sr=8-9
Also…if you technically want “Happy” songs. Clinique, the cosmetic company came out with a CD called “C’mon Get Happy” about 10 years ago ( if you bought the cosmetics). All the songs on it have “Happy” in the title…like “C’mon Get Happy”...“Make Someone Happy”....“Happy Together”, etc. (With original artists.)
It’s available on Amazon Marketplace for….1 American penny.
Happy Listening!