Bobby McFerrin: Thinkin About your body 7″ (promo) + DON’T WORRY BE HAPPY. 1986 UK. Check videos of songs and video analysis too.

Oh baby I’m thinkin’ about your body
Oh baby I’m thinkin’ about your face
Oh baby I’m thinkin’ about your body
Thinkin’ about your face

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“Don’t Worry, Be Happy” is a song by American musician Bobby McFerrin released in 1988. It was the first a cappella song to reach number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, which was a position it held for two weeks. Originally released in conjunction with the film Cocktail, the song peaked at No. 1 on September 24, 1988, displacing “Sweet Child o’ Mine” by Guns N’ Roses.

The song also peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Tracks chart and No. 7 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. The song was also a hit in the United Kingdom and on the UK Singles Chart, the song reached number 2 during its fifth week on the chart (kept from the top spot by Whitney Houston’s “One Moment in Time”). In Canada, the song reached No. 1 in its 8th week. One critic noted it as a “formula for facing life’s trials”.

Indian mystic Meher Baba (1894–1969) often used the expression “Don’t worry, be happy” when cabling his followers in the West, and the expression was printed on inspirational cards and posters during the 1960s. In 1988, McFerrin noticed a similar poster in the apartment of jazz duo Tuck & Patti in San Francisco, and he was inspired by the expression’s charm and simplicity. He wrote the song that was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year.

Music video
The comedic original music video for the song stars McFerrin, Robin Williams, and Bill Irwin,[12] and is somewhat shorter than the album version.

Awards
The song is ranked No. 31 on VH1’s 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s and also appears on Rolling Stone’s list of the 15 Best Whistling Songs of All Time. At the 1989 Grammy Awards, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” won the awards for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.

Critical reception
This song was named by Village Voice critic Michael Musto as the worst of all time, and it topped Q100 DJ Bert Weiss’s list of tracks he would forever ban from radio. In the “50 Worst Songs Ever”, Blender said that “it’s difficult to think of a song more likely to plunge you into suicidal despondency than this”, and also lambasted its “appalling” lyrics

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