We Could Be Happy - The Cryin' Shames - 1966

Had To Track This Down.Would Hang Out At A Del-Taco Restaurant And Their Cable Radio Station Would Play These Obscure Songs.I Heard This And Said What The Heck Is This.?Just Some White Boys Singing" We Could Be Happy,We Could Be Happy".All I Could Do Is Think Of This Lost Gem.Finally After 3 Years Tracked It Down.Unforgettable. We Could Be Happy,Indeed.What A Song.I Still Can't Forget It.Thanks Cryin' Shames. For Your One Hit Wonder.

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Music

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• Love
• Can
• Make
• You
• Happy
• 60's
• Hit's
• 1966

[bze2nlz1]

Also, the Cryan' Shames were not just a one-hit wonder, at least not in the midwest. Their 'Sugar and Spice' went national in 1966, and 'It Could Be We're In Love' in 1967. Chicago saw several other hits from this great group!

[uniquebsame]

Boy I never heard this song. Very good. Just goes to show you. You don't know everything. FAR FROM IT!

[915buck]

who is the girl in front of the yellow sign????......same hair, bright teeth, sparkling eyes, and gestured alike.......long ago and so far away.

[izzatluv]

I met them and they autographed this 45 for me back in the day. The A side to this is I Wanna Meet You.

[TheMorganc3]

@skypilot722

looks to me to b Raquel Welch

[Jacquiminns]

Why do you have a picture of the Liverpool UK band the Cryin Shames and their record Please Stay as the opening pics? They were different groups...

[consv]

Only time I heard their songs in Seattle was when a friend moved there from the Midwest and had their album.

I never heard them on the radio.

[915buck]

I love this band, this video takes me right back to high school.....I guess it was a predecessor of things to come......thanks so much to life, and coming when it did!!

[915buck]

this looks so much like my high school days, the tasty freeze, the inside of the out door threater, the Elco theater downtown, the girls in the video especially the one in front of the yellow sign.....the Cryan Shames was the first professional bank I had ever seen...I guess it was a predecessor of things to come....thanks so much for life coming when it did.....

[Wolfsky9]

In Denver, on Boss AM Radio, 950 KIMN, this was a top 20 song, & I loved it. These guys--like The Critters--could really, REALLY sing. Great music from an innocent time--I was 20 yrs/. old, & knew I'd always be young, handsome, & invincible. Wolfsky9, almost 65 y/o.

[neighborscomplaint]

I always loved the Jim Fairs lead guitar on this. He inspired me to buy a Gretsch countery gentleman so i would sound like this! I loved this band. First song I ever learned on guitar was their rendition of "Heat Wave" too!