Blog Challenge - Happy Music part 2

On further thought, I think my list below is woefully inadequate. I had my other ipod on random (yes, I have two) and I remembered even MORE, older music that cheers me up! So here's some more with me trying to break them into genre.

Motown
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Aint No Mountain High Enough.
I would just like to say that I love music from the Gordy Berry-Motown Era. Watch the documentary *Standing in the Shadows of Motown* and I swear that you will either already know (and love the songs). If you don't, you will.

Diana Ross & The Supremes/Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love
It was really hard trying to pick my favourite from the entire back catalogue and I couldn't decide if this one or Marvin & Tammi made me happier. Then I came across this clip and decided that it just had to be included.

80s

WHAM! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
I don't care what people say about the 80s being the decade that style forgot. This was a classic decade for music, particularly 1987 (hai Kahunes!).This song is actually from 1984, but despite being only 3 years old at the time the peppiness has stayed with me ever since!

Since I can't find a clip for WHAM! that allows embedding, I'm putting in a classic from 1987, Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up - RickRolled!!!

Asian/Cantopop
Harlem Yu - Qing Fei De Yi
Now, I can't actually speak or read Chinese. I can read and say some things here and there but not enough for you to give me text and me to do anything with it. But I used to listen to this song enough that Miss Pooky and I ended a glorious karaoke night by singing this. Spoof/Fan clip by WongFu.

RnB/Pop
Janet & Luther - The Best Things In Life Are Free.
A short story, I was in a nightclub a few years ago when the canny DJ played this and the entire place erupted into cheers. Such is the power of this song.

Janet Jackson - Someone To Call My Lover
Continuing on from Miz Jackson, Mischka played this song in her car and 'fessed up that she loved it. I do too and I promised her that I'd look up the song that the opening guitar riff was taken from and I forgot about it until I heard the song again today. It's from "Ventura Highway" by America.

Beatles vs. Stones
Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There
Super difficult to pic a favourite out of their amazing backlist but this always makes me want to go out and dance - Grease-style. Or put on a puffy dress and scream.

Stones - Start Me Up
Mick's antics and face used to really freak me out when I was younger. Now that I'm older, it's good for bopping along while on public transport.

Song I love that I'm kinda ashamed to say I love
Jesse McCartney - Leavin'
Why I was sitting in the OKR Party House watching TV baffles me but this song was all over the music video channel when I was in London. It's catchiness drilled a hole in my head and oddly enough, reminds me of sunshine - probably due to the *heat wave* London had while I was there. Incidentally, I don't find Jesse hot - he still looks like a little boy to me.