That Happy Feeling

That Happy Feeling was an instrumental pop music single composed by Guy Warren and which is the second cut on the 1960 Bert Kaempfert album, "A Swingin' Safari". That and the title track were among the first pop instrumentals to incorporate elements of South African music. It is also the title track of what is basically the same album issued under a different name.

Although it only peaked at number 67 in 1962, the song's upbeat bossa nova style, flute/marimba melody line and flugelhorn/trombone arpeggios combined with a full string section and chorus seemed to make it a natural choice for locally produced children's television programming, especially in the United States.

In New York City, Sandy Becker used it as the theme for his local program on WNEW and in Southern California, the song was used between children's programs during the early days of KBSC Corona/Los Angeles. It was played over the title card of the station's logo and not always to its conclusion, presumably because a master control technician was busy cueing the tape of whatever show was scheduled to air.

External links and references

* [http://www.amazon.com/That-Happy-Feeling-Kaempfert-Orchestra/dp/B000003H77 Ordering information and brief history at Amazon.com]
* [http://www.kaempfert.de/de/awards/index.htm Awards/charts section at Kaempfert.de]
* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=gUkMx5cfZBo YouTube video combining stills from the Sandy Becker show with the original recording]
* [http://www.answers.com/topic/swingin-safari Allmusic.com entry for "A Swingin' Safari" (1998 re-release)]