Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe

~ Recording by Woody Herman & His Orchestra

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack ArtistRelease TitleRelease ArtistRelease Group TypeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.8Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe3:29Frances WayneAmerican Songbook SeriesHarold ArlenAlbum + Compilation
The Smithsonian Collection of RecordingsRD 048-5 A 22407
1.3Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe3:28Woody HermanBlowin' Up a Storm! The Columbia Years 1945-47Woody HermanAlbum + Compilation
C2K 65646
1.3Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe3:28Woody HermanBlowin' Up a Storm! The Columbia Years 1945-47Woody HermanAlbum + Compilation
  • -2001
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)COL 503280 2
2.9Happines Is Just A Thing Called Joe3:30Woody HermanGolden GreatsWoody HermanAlbum
DiskyMP 791892
2.4Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe3:28Woody HermanClassic Jazz Archive: Woody HermanWoody HermanAlbum + Compilation
Documents (German, Membran Entertainment Group)222007-306
14.1Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe3:29Frances WayneL’Histoire du jazz vocal : The Story of Vocal Jazz: 1941–1953Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Le Chant du Monde574 1311.20
1.8Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe3:28Woody Herman & His OrchestraThe Complete Columbia Recordings of Woody Herman and His Orchestra & Woodchoppers (1945–1947)Woody HermanAlbum + Compilation
Mosaic Records (US jazz reissues)MD7-223

Relationships

recorded in:New York, New York, United States (on 1945-02-26)
alto saxophone:John LaPorta (on 1945-02-26)
Sam Marowitz (saxophonist and clarinetist) (on 1945-02-26)
baritone saxophone:Skippy DeSair (on 1945-02-26)
bass:Chubby Jackson (on 1945-02-26)
drums (drum set):Dave Tough (jazz drummer) (on 1945-02-26)
guitar:Billy Bauer (US cool jazz guitarist) (on 1945-02-26)
piano:Ralph Burns (on 1945-02-26)
reeds:Woody Herman (on 1945-02-26)
tenor saxophone:Pete Mondello (on 1945-02-26)
Flip Phillips (on 1945-02-26)
trombone:Bill Harris (Jazz trombonist) (on 1945-02-26)
Ed Kiefer (on 1945-02-26)
Ralph Pfeffner (on 1945-02-26)
trumpet:Sonny Berman (on 1945-02-26)
Pete Candoli (on 1945-02-26)
Charles Frankhauser (on 1945-02-26)
Carl Warwick (jazz trumpeter) (on 1945-02-26)
Ray Wetzel (on 1945-02-26)
vibraphone:Marjorie Hyams (on 1945-02-26)
vocals:Frances Wayne (on 1945-02-26)
orchestra:Woody Herman and His Orchestra (on 1945-02-26)
arranger:Ralph Burns
recording of:Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe (on 1945-02-26)

Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe

lyricist:Yip Harburg (in 1940)
composer:Harold Arlen (in 1940)