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Happy Song (Baby's Gang song)
"Happy Song"
Single by Baby's Gang
from the album Challenger
B-side"Ice Cream"
Released1983
GenreItalo disco
Length3:20
LabelMemory
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Alessandro Zanni
  • Stefano Cundari
Baby's Gang singles chronology
"Happy Song"
(1983)
"Challenger"
(1984)
Music video
"Happy Song" on YouTube

"Happy Song" is a 1983 hit single by Italian disco music act Baby's Gang. The single became a European hit single when covered by German band Boney M. the following year.

Track listing and formats

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  • Italian 7-inch single[1]
A. "Happy Song" – 3:20
B. "Ice Cream" – 3:20
  • Italian 12-inch single[2]
A. "Happy Song" – 5:40
B. "Ice Cream" – 5:00
  • German 7-inch single[3]
A. "Happy Song" – 3:28
B. "Ice Cream" – 3:25

Boney M. version

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"Happy Song"
Single by Boney M. and Bobby Farrell with the School-Rebels
B-side"School's Out"
ReleasedNovember 1984
GenreEurodisco
Length4:18
LabelHansa
Songwriter(s)
  • Larry Pignagnoli
  • Spagna
  • Ottavio Bacciocchi
Producer(s)Frank Farian
Boney M. singles chronology
"Kalimba de Luna"
(1984)
"Happy Song"
(1984)
"My Chérie Amour"
(1985)
Music video
"Happy Song" on YouTube

After Boney M.'s return to the charts with a cover of the Italian hit "Kalimba de Luna", producer Frank Farian rushed back into the studio to cover another Italian hit single. He invited Boney M.'s original dancer Bobby Farrell to join the group along with a group of children from Rhein-Main Air Base Elementary and Jr. High, credited as The School Rebels, who did the lead vocals together with Reggie Tsiboe. While Bobby Farrell did a rap, original singers Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett did not participate in the recording. Session vocalists La Mama (Patricia Shockley, Madeleine Davis and Judy Cheeks) did the additional female vocals. The single gave the group their final German Top 10 hit single (#7), their first in nearly four years.

Track listing and formats

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  • European 7-inch single[4]
A. "Happy Song" – 4:18
B. "School's Out" – 3:15
  • European 12-inch maxi-single[5]
A. "Happy Song" – 8:12
B. "School's Out" – 3:15

Charts

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Weekly charts

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Chart (1984–1985) Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[6] 15
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[7] 29
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[8] 21
West Germany (GfK)[9] 7

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