HAPPINESS IS A THING CALLED JOE
From the film "Cabin In The Sky" (1943)
(Harold Arlen / E. Y. "Yip" Harburg)


Ethel Waters (Film Soundtrack) - 1943
Carroll Gibbons & The Savoy Hotel Orpheans - 1944
Woody Hermann & His Orch. (vocal: Frances Wayne) - 1944
Ruth Brown - 1949
Susan Hayward (feat. in the film "I'll Cry Tomorrow") - 1955
Judy Garland - 1955
Barbara Carroll - 1955
Abbey Lincoln - 1956
Georgia Gibbs - 1956
Peggy Lee - 1957
Della Reese - 1958
Cathy Hayes - 1959
Tony Bennett - 1959
Ella Fitzgerald - 1960
Carol Burnett - 1963
Ann Richards - 1964
Nancy Wilson - 1969
Diahann Carroll & Duke Ellington Orch. - 1978
Susannah McCorkle - 1980
Rosemary Clooney - 1983
Helen Forrest - 1983
Toni Tennille - 1985
Eileen Farrell - 1988
Etta Jones & Benny Green - 1994
Rita Moreno - 2000
Keely Smith - 2002
Carrie Smith - 2002
Azure McCall - 2003
Bette Midler - 2005

Also recorded by: Kathy Kirby; Ethel Ennis;
Damita Jo; Louise Carlyle; Dorothy Donegan;
Sarah Vaughan; Leslie Uggams; Gloria Lynne;
Annette Lowman; Jo Stafford; Lillian Roth;
Peggy King; ........... and others.



It seems like happiness is just a thing called Joe
He's got a smile that makes the lilac wanta grow
He's got a way that makes the angels heave a sigh
When they know little Joe's passing by

Sometimes the cabin's gloomy and the table's bare
Then he'll kiss me and it's Christmas everywhere
Troubles fly away and life is easy go
Does he love me good, that's all I need to know

Seems like happiness, is just a thing called Joe

Little Joe, little Joe, little Joe