I Want to Be Happy
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"I Want to Be Happy" is a jazz standard from the 1925 musical "No, No, Nanette," widely performed and recorded by numerous jazz artists.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| composer | Vincent Youmans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| firstPerformanceContext | Broadway musical ⓘ |
| genre | jazz ⓘ |
| hasLyricsBy | Irving Caesar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicBy | Vincent Youmans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerformer |
Al Jolson
NERFINISHED
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Anita O’Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Art Blakey NERFINISHED ⓘ Art Tatum NERFINISHED ⓘ Benny Carter NERFINISHED ⓘ Benny Goodman NERFINISHED ⓘ Buddy DeFranco NERFINISHED ⓘ Charlie Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ Coleman Hawkins NERFINISHED ⓘ Count Basie NERFINISHED ⓘ Dinah Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Dizzy Gillespie NERFINISHED ⓘ Django Reinhardt NERFINISHED ⓘ Doris Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Duke Ellington Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald NERFINISHED ⓘ Ethel Merman NERFINISHED ⓘ Fats Waller NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Sinatra NERFINISHED ⓘ George Shearing NERFINISHED ⓘ Glenn Miller Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry James NERFINISHED ⓘ Lester Young NERFINISHED ⓘ Lionel Hampton NERFINISHED ⓘ Mel Tormé NERFINISHED ⓘ Nat King Cole NERFINISHED ⓘ Oscar Peterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Whiteman Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Norvo NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Vaughan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonny Rollins NERFINISHED ⓘ Stan Getz NERFINISHED ⓘ Thelonious Monk NERFINISHED ⓘ Tommy Dorsey Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Bennett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isFromMusical | No, No, Nanette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Irving Caesar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicalTheatreDebut | No, No, Nanette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalMedium | stage musical ⓘ |
| partOfWork | No, No, Nanette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1925 ⓘ |
| yearOfMusical | 1925 ⓘ |
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