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(_____________________ for the rest of your life Never make a pretty woman your wife So, from my personal point of view Get an ugly girl to marry you)
_____________________ for the rest of your life
Never make a pretty woman your wife
So, from my personal point of view
#NameThatTune
"If You Wanna Be Happy" is a 1963 song recorded by #JimmySoul, written by #RafaelDeLeon and adapted by Joseph Royster, Carmella Guida and Frank Guida.
#QuickSidenote Roaring Lion, a Trinidadian calypso singer, wrote “Ugly Woman” in 1933... Three decades later, his song lived on when Jimmy Soul’s “If You Wanna Be Happy," based on Lion’s tune, hit #1 on the #Billboard #Top40 in 1963. #RoaringLion #JimmySoul #OneHitWondered
#2HitTuesdays Jimmy Soul's bigger hit came the following year. The memorable novelty hit, “If You Wanna Be Happy,” (based on the calypso tune “Ugly Woman”) went all the way to #1 on the US #Billboard #Top40 in 1963, staying there for two weeks. #JimmySoul #OneHitWondered
#2HitTuesdays 🇺🇸 singer Jimmy Soul made his mark in the early ‘60s with two US #Billboard #Top40 hits that blended humor and some calypso flair. His first hit single was “Twistin’ Matilda.” Riding the coattails of the twist dance craze, it peaked at #22 on the US #Top40. #JimmySoul #OneHitWondered
I remember when that song "If You Want to be Happy"* was a joke.
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If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life
Never make a pretty woman your wife
So for my personal point of view
Get an ugly girl to marry you
#lyrics #JimmySoul #TheCoasters
Mermaids (1990) - I was expecting the end to have been the shoop shoop song, but I liked this just as much #mermaids #jimmysoul #cher #90smovies
