"Happy Days are Here Again!" (Ben Selvin and the Crooners, 1930)

Celebrating a new American chapter:

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!

Happy days are here again
The skies above are clear again
Let us sing a song of cheer again
Happy days are here again

Altogether shout it now
There's no one
Who can doubt it now
So let us tell the world about it now
Happy days are here again

Your cares and troubles are gone
There'll be no more from now on,

Happy days are here again
The skies above are clear again
So, let us sing a song of happy cheer again,

Happy, happy, happy days
Are here again!

Here's more from Wiki:

Happy Days Are Here Again" is a song copyrighted in 1929 by Milton Ager (music) and Jack Yellen (lyrics). The song was recorded by Leo Reisman and His Orchestra, with Lou Levin, vocal (November 1929), and was used in the 1930 film Chasing Rainbows. Today, the song is probably best remembered as the campaign song for Franklin Delano Roosevelt's (FDR) successful 1932 Presidential campaign. Since FDR's use of the song, it has come to be recognized as the unofficial theme of the Democratic Party. The lyrics suggest optimism and buoyancy.

Matthew Greenwald characterized it, "A true saloon standard, Happy Days Are Here Again is a Tin Pan Alley standard, and had been sung by virtually every interpreter since the 1940s. In a way, it's the pop version of Auld Lang Syne."[1]

The song is #47 on the Recording Industry Association of America's list of "Songs of the Century".

One of the most influential recordings of the song was made 33 years after its first recording; this was Barbra Streisand's version in her 1963 album debut The Barbra Streisand Album. She also sang this song on The Judy Garland Show, in a medley with Judy Garland's Get Happy. While the song is traditionally sung at a brisk pace, her recording is notable for how slowly and expressively she sang it. By 2006, 76 commercially released albums included versions of the song.
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[quarterxchange]

@jerzy862 If you think the past decade is an example of Free Market Capitalism at work then you truly don't know what Freee Market Capitalism is.

[AmersfoortTristan]

@quarterxchange Capitalism essentially is a system of wage slavery. Not that communism is much better and all the libertard nonsense you're going to spout that (the Koch brothers who support Ron Paul would be proud of you) is not going to change that.

[Meade556]

@bongobanjo Pay this elephant no heed, none of them ever seem to grasp that the market, like Government, is a human institution that we can shape as we see fit. The real question is not regulation or free markets it is regulation for whom? For liberals it is regulation for consumers, which is everybody from richest to poorest. For elephants it is for the rich.

[Meade556]

@navegamadrid Well we didn't vote him just to get a Republican. We want Hillary!

[quarterxchange]

@bongobanjo No it can't. When government power is strickly left to maintaingin the defense of liberty, life, and property, it can't evolve into corporatism. But if you want to stick with that then that can be said about government in general. Every system of government can evolve into another form of government, that's nothing new.

Of course the government is screwing over the people. Thanks to people with your mindset our government has taken billions of your dollars and thrown it away.

[quarterxchange]

@bongobanjo What the hell are you talking about? This isn't relevant at all. This can be said about any system that has ever been concieved. You aren't coming up with any argument against free market capitalism.

[bongobanjo]

@quarterxchange You see, in any society there's dumb people and smart people (e.g. you and I :). When the dumb/unlucky ones are left starving in great numbers (either due to their stupidity/luck or being swindled by the smarter people), riots/looting/lynchings/revolu­tion/civil war/whatever break out and POOF, a "true free market capitalist" system is replaced by whatever you like.

[bongobanjo]

@quarterxchange Your idealistic capitalist system is nothing but a pipe dream, just like communism. It would inevitably devolve into corporatism or worse. While socialist democracies have been shown to function pretty well. E.g. the USA was somewhat of a socialist democracy in the period of 1930s-1970s or thereabouts.

/watch?v=VnVJAkhGyjQ for example, or google "middle class shrink" for some numbers on how the US govt is serving its people less nowadays.

[quarterxchange]

@bongobanjo Corporatism is not the same thing as Capitalism. Free market capitalists despise corporatism and the recent bailouts as much as the socialists, because corporatism is a form of socialism that simply benefits the rich.

Name what the US gov did to serve the people other than maintain the security of life liberty and property.

[quarterxchange]

@bongobanjo Dude, governments have been corrupted by rich people since government were first put in place, including ours.

You still have yet to point out what any of these lies are. Your entire argument is conjecture and without examples.

Additionally a free market capitalist system advocates for a government that only has the ability to maintain the security of ones life liberty and property. Nothing more nothing less. I'm interested in how that govt will lead to a police state.

[bongobanjo]

@Bo14Rod It's kind of a political song since FDR used it in his campaign.

[bongobanjo]

@quarterxchange The US gov got corrupted in the past 30 yrs, coz US got too rich and Americans could afford being intellectually lazy and buying the lies from professional liars and paying no attention to what's actually happening. You're a good example of why the "free market capitalism" was able to lie & buy it's way into absolute power and turn US into a rogue 3rd-world authoritarian police state.