I Want to Be Happy (1950-01-26, mx. JRC-1005-B)

Name: I Want to Be Happy
Duration: 3 min 14 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track Artist	Release Title	Release Artist	Release Group Type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
1.8	I Want to Be Happy	3:15	Sonny Stitt and Bud Powell	Sonny Stitt Bud Powell J.J. Johnson	Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell & J.J. Johnson	Album	-1989	Prestige (American jazz label), Original Jazz Classics	7024, OJCCD-009-2
1.8	I Want to Be Happy	3:14	Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell & J.J. Johnson	Sonny Stitt Bud Powell J.J. Johnson	Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell & J.J. Johnson	Album	JP1996-03-06	Prestige (American jazz label)	VICJ-2006
1.22	I Want to Be Happy	3:12	Sonny Stitt and Bud Powell Quartet	The Chronological Classics: Sonny Stitt 1946–1950	Sonny Stitt	Album + Compilation	FR2001	Classics Records (compilations of the Chronological Series)	1174
1.8	I Want to Be Happy	3:14	Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell & J.J. Johnson	Sonny Stitt Bud Powell J.J. Johnson	Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell & J.J. Johnson	Album	JP2006-08-23	Prestige (American jazz label)	VICJ-41757
1.8	I Want to Be Happy	3:15	Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell & J.J. Johnson	Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell, J.J. Johnson	Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell & J.J. Johnson	Album	XW2007-01-02	Fantasy (jazz label active since the 1950s)

recorded in:	New York, New York, United States (on 1950-01-26)

double bass:	Curley Russell (on 1950-01-26)
drums (drum set):	Max Roach (20th century US jazz drummer & composer) (on 1950-01-26)
piano:	Bud Powell (on 1950-01-26)
tenor saxophone:	Sonny Stitt (on 1950-01-26)

recording of:	I Want to Be Happy (on 1950-01-26: instrumental)

lyricist:	Irving Caesar
composer:	Irving Caesar Vincent Youmans

part of:	No, No, Nanette