06 May 2011

Music Day

This band recently broke up, but in their seventeen or eighteen years together (something like that), they popularised quite a few songs that are sung pretty widely in churches today. Shout To The North; I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever; Did You Feel The Mountains Tremble? and others were either written by them or covered and brought to wider attention by them. This isn't one of those songs that typically gets sung in churches, although I think it would be great fun to sing in church.
This was one of my sister's favourite songs when we were younger. Every time we went out with our father to the workshop she would ask him to put on this CD and we would dance around any clear space we could find and sing along, although not very accurately. For almost a decade we were convinced that the song contained the line See his smiling overalls (rather than ...and see Him smiling over us).

Title: The Happy Song
Artist: Delirious?
Album: Cutting Edge
Year: 1997
Label: Furious? Records
Here it is on iTunes and here's a version on YouTube.

4 comments:

Brittney said...

I love this song! They taught us a little dance to do with it at youth camp when I was like thirteen. I was always sad that it was never sung in church...

Sarah-Kate said...

Really? That sounds cool! You'll have to show me sometime.
We should spearhead that movement in our churches. I think a few people would enjoy it in our church... I don't know about yours...
Of course, one would have to find either sheet music or a karaoke track and that's much easier said than done.

Brittney said...

Yeah, apparently it's pretty hard to chord, which is the main reason it's not in use at our church, but I'd love to change that. I don't really remember how the dance goes, though, just that there was one. :)

Sarah-Kate said...

I'll just take your word for it... I wouldn't know. :-)
That's my main problem with liking such obscure music -- you can't find the sheet music anywhere. Basically if you want to cover a song (or even sing it in church), you would have to talk to the artists themselves and ask for a copy of their sheet music -- if they still have it.
And that's never going to happen.