Don't Worry, Be Happy (album)

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Don't Worry, Be Happy
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Released1988
Length43:05
Label EMI
Bobby McFerrin chronology
Simple Pleasures
(1988)
Don't Worry, Be Happy
(1988)
How the Rhino Got Its Skin/How the Camel Got Its Hump
(1990)

Don't Worry, Be Happy is a compilation album by Bobby McFerrin.

Bobby McFerrin American jazz vocalist and conductor

Robert Keith McFerrin Jr. is an American jazz vocalist and conductor. A ten-time Grammy Award winner, he is known for his unique vocal techniques, such as singing fluidly but with quick and considerable jumps in pitch—for example, sustaining a melody while also rapidly alternating with arpeggios and harmonies—as well as scat singing, polyphonic overtone singing, and improvisational vocal percussion. He is widely known for performing and recording regularly as an unaccompanied solo vocal artist. He has frequently collaborated with other artists from both the jazz and classical scenes.

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Track listing

All tracks composed by Bobby McFerrin, except where indicated.

  1. "Don't Worry, Be Happy" - 4:51
  2. "Turtle Shoes" (McFerrin, Herbie Hancock) - 3:34
  3. "Another Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie, Jon Hendricks, Frank Paparelli) - 4:14
  4. "Even for Me" (McFerrin, Chick Corea) – 6:37
  5. "Mañana Iguana" – 2:23
  6. "Drive" – 3:57
  7. "I Hear Music" (Frank Loesser, Burton Lane) - 3:54
  8. "Walkin'" (Richard Carpenter) - 5:38
  9. "'Round Midnight" (Cootie Williams, Thelonious Monk, Bernie Hanighen) - 7:57

Personnel

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Jon Hendricks American jazz singer, lyricist, jazz critic and historian

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The Manhattan Transfer American vocal music group

The Manhattan Transfer is a jazz vocal group founded in 1969 that has explored a cappella, vocalese, swing, standards, Brazilian jazz, rhythm and blues, and pop music.

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