Happy Talk (song)
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In June 1982
, The Damned's guitarist Captain Sensible
scored an unlikely #1 single on the UK singles chart
for two weeks with his version of the song, featuring backing vocals by the band Dolly Mixture
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1982 in music
This is a list of notable events in music from 1982. 1982 was a big year in music with Madonna making her debut as well as the year that Michael Jackson released Thriller which became the world's best selling album and it still holds that title today....
, The Damned's guitarist Captain Sensible
Captain Sensible
Captain Sensible is a singer, songwriter, guitarist who grew up in Croydon, England, and co-founded the punk rock band The Damned in 1976. After leaving the band, he reinvented himself as an alternative pop singer with a rebellious, self-conscious image...
scored an unlikely #1 single on the UK singles chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
for two weeks with his version of the song, featuring backing vocals by the band Dolly Mixture
Dolly Mixture
Dolly Mixture were a British post-punk/new wave band formed in 1978 by bassist and vocalist Debsey Wykes , guitarist and vocalist Rachel Bor , and drummer Hester Smith...
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Cover Version
- Ella Fitzgerald recorded a version for 1948 album Invite You to Listen and Relax
- Doris Day recorded Happy Talk on Dec. 19, 1960 for her album Bright and Shiny
- Claudine Longet recorded a version for her album Love is Blue (1968)
- In the later 1960s, Harpers BizarreHarpers BizarreHarpers Bizarre was an American pop-rock band of the 1960s, best known for their Broadway/Sunshine Pop sound and their remake of Simon & Garfunkel's "The 59th Street Bridge Song ."- Career :...
did a cover of the song. - Daniel JohnstonDaniel JohnstonDaniel Dale Johnston is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and artist. Johnston was the subject of the 2006 documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. He currently lives in Waller, Texas....
& Jad FairJad FairJad Fair is an American singer, guitarist and graphic artist, most famous for being a founding member of lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese.-Biography:In 1974, with his brother David, Jad Fair founded the lo-fi group Half Japanese...
on their album It's SpookyIt's SpookyIt's Spooky is a collaboration album by musicians Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair, of the band Half Japanese. It was first released in 1989 on 50 Skidillion Watts Records, under the title Jad Fair and Daniel Johnston. It was re-issued on CD in 1993 on Paperhouse...
, released in 19891989 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1989.-Events:*January 14 – Paul McCartney releases Снова в СССР exclusively in the USSR...
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Samples
- In 2004 UK rap artist Dizzee RascalDizzee RascalDylan Kwabena Mills , better known by his stage name Dizzee Rascal, is a Ghanaian British rapper, songwriter and record producer. His music is a blend of garage, hip hop, grime, ragga, pop and electronic music, with eclectic samples and more exotic styles...
sampled the song in his own single, "DreamDream (Dizzee Rascal song)"Dream" is the fifth single from British rapper Dizzee Rascal and the second from his second album Showtime. The single became his fifth top forty hit and second consecutive top twenty hit in the UK Singles Chart peaking at number fourteen, his second highest charting single...
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See also
- You've Got to Have a Dream (book)You've Got to Have a Dream (book)You've Got to Have a Dream: The Message of the Musical is a book written by the British theologian Ian Bradley, first published in 2004, exploring the spiritual dimension of musical theatre.----...
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