If You Wanna Be Happy 🙋
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March 30, 2026 at 12:15 AM
If You Wanna Be Happy 🙋
#JimmySoul
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#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
1962 HITS ARCHIVE: Twistin’ Matilda - Jimmy Soul
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August 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
#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
#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
1963 HITS ARCHIVE: If You Wanna Be Happy - Jimmy Soul (a #1 record)
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August 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
#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
#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
Roaring Lion - Ugly Woman (1934)
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August 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
#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
"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.
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February 24, 2026 at 12:18 PM
"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.
If You Wanna Be Happy 🙋
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January 5, 2026 at 4:29 AM
If You Wanna Be Happy 🙋
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If You Wanna Be Happy 😊
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May 30, 2026 at 11:57 PM
If You Wanna Be Happy 😊
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If You Wanna Be Happy 😟
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January 27, 2026 at 6:39 PM
If You Wanna Be Happy 😟
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If You Wanna Be Happy 😃
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June 20, 2026 at 1:24 PM
If You Wanna Be Happy 😃
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December 28, 2024 at 2:01 AM
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
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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
April 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I remember when that song "If You Want to be Happy"* was a joke.
*
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
*
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
If You Wanna Be Happy ☺️
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July 25, 2026 at 11:24 PM
If You Wanna Be Happy ☺️
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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
March 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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
If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life… #JimmySoul #vinilos
September 14, 2024 at 12:13 PM
If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life… #JimmySoul #vinilos