Cruisin' with the Fonz - by Pratt & McClain

This was the other side of the hit Happy Days by Pratt & McClain with Brother Love. On the album, this music was used with a vocal track and called Tonight We're Gonna Fall in Love. This version however is one of my all-time favorite instrumentals!

Category:

Music

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• fonz
• fonzie
• happy days
• pratt
• mcclain
• pratt & mcclain

[speedupster]

I still have this on 45! Great tune - flip of "Happy Days" Thanks for posting... haven't heard it in years!

[Fluffets]

@speedupster ...oh yep! Maybe get the old phonograph out and dust it off and spin some fun stuff over there :D ... and check out that flip side Happy Days... listen with headphones on to that arrangement where they keep going along with a progression that adds another instrument to the mix every few measures... it's intoxicatingly mesmerizing!

[1967MoparMan1]

im 15 and i love every thing old (speacaily 1970s era) i was in a thrift store and found this 45 and i love happy days so i bought it and jam to it at least three times a day haha LONG LIVE THE FONZ!

[Fluffets]

@1967MoparMan1 Woo yeah!

So glad you are loving it all!

I also was too young for the first wave of 60s music, but I discovered it along with a lot of people with the revival in the 1970s with Happy Days and all... :)

[middleagelimbo]

Thanks for posting this. The audio sounds so much better than my old scratchy 45. Back at the time I actually preferred this flipside song over the hit side because I was disappointed to discover it wasn't the version of the theme that was used in the show itself. (A short time later the album "Fonzie Favorites" came out and it actually did feature the recording used on the show.) Still I kept the 45 all these years because of "Cruisin' With The Fonz". Thanks again.

[Fluffets]

@middleagelimbo *boggle* That sounds so Amazingly Similar to my experience with it!! I also liked it better, and somewhat disliked the hit side... but over the years it has grown on me.. the extraordinarily fun "progression of instruments" arrangement especially... and now I like both versions of Happy Days in their own right. (and I also bought those Fonzie Favorites! I used to wonder, was that really him on the cover or a stand-in? Looked so different up close!)

Thanks for the comment! :)

[bigtiti12]

it's one of the few good things i have

i was born in 1994, but i adore 60's and 70's

so atleast i can find some comfort that youtube was found out in my era :D

[RickJ32]

I thank you so much for putting this song on Youtube. I have not heard this for 30 years. Again thank you so much.

[OffTheCharts365]

Thanks for posting this video/song. How 'bout the "Fonz Song" by the Hay-ettes?

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Again, thanks for posting!

[Fluffets]

You're very welcome! I also listened to it a LOT more for a long time, because I preferred the TV theme version of the A side... but I gradually came to appreciate the arrangement for itself, and now I like them about equally... but this is certainly an underappreciated song, since B sides tend not to get widespread airplay.

[algismorales]

Hahahaha.... wooooow...

I remember this being the B side to the 'Happy Days' single,and almost liking it more!

Thank you for posting this!

[Fluffets]

I think I did the same for a long time! It was like the perfect rock-pop instrumental! I used to prefer the TV version of the other side (Happy Days), but listening over and over with headphones, I heard so many nuances in the arrangement that I really got to love it as much, if not more than the TV one.

Thanks for the comment!