HAPPY HOMER

Created on 22/03/2017
Latest update on 02/01/2024

Artist: Bill Haley & The Comets
Author: Norman Malkin/Jesse Gonzales
Label: WB
Year: 1960

Instrumental, his first recording for Warner but shelved until '99 for Bear Family box set The Warner Brothers Years. Happy Homer was the mascot of a Phoenix building company specialized in wooden constructions.

Covers:

1960:

Dave Appell [as Happy Jose on Cameo]

1961:

Jack Ross [as Happy Jose (Ching Ching); hit US, n°2 NL]

1962:

Jack Collier [as Ching Ching (Happy Jose); n°5 NL]

1962:

Willy Schobben [idem; n°2 NL]

1962:

Vico Torriani [idem; hit D]

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