Happy People (The Temptations song)

Happy People is a song from 1974 that was published by the group The Temptations. Lionel Richie was involved in writing the song. The song was originally to be published by the group The Commodores. The song was the first single from the album A Song for You by The Temptations. In the United States occupied the single # 1 on the R & B charts and # 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 Happy People placed on rank 11 of the disco / dance charts.

Happy People was in many ways a new beginning for The Temptations. It was the first single from an album in which was a song without the band The Funk Brothers, the former studio band from Motown to hear. Instead, the group The Commodores took care of the musical background. The Commodores also wrote the music for the album, as Norman Whitfield Motown had left. This made for Happy People first single by The Temptations for Mother Nature in 1972, which was not written by Whitfield. Even Happy People was the first single from All I Need from 1967, which was not produced by Whitfield; this task was taken over by Jeffrey Bowen.

On the B - side of the single, the instrumental version of the song was. This was actually a B-side of The Commodores. Happy People was the last single by The Temptations, in which the B- side was the instrumental version of the A - side. This was previously What was a Rollin 'Stone and Masterpiece the case with singles dad. The instrumental version of Happy People has been published as the sung version on the album A Song For You.