Difference between revisions of "Mr. Happy"

• 7 January 1997, Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA, USA
  
• 31 May 1999 (a.m.): Studio 54 @ MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, NV, USA

• Love 4 One Another Charities Tour (usually in medley with 18 & Over)
• Jam Of The Year World Tour (instrumental coda included in Take Me With U / Raspberry Beret)
• New Power Soul Tour (European leg only, instrumental coda included in Take Me With U / Raspberry Beret)
• New Power Soul Festival Tour (instrumental coda included in Take Me With U / Raspberry Beret)

• 1998 (instrumental coda included in Take Me With U / Raspberry Beret), 1999 (usually as instrumental coda included in Take Me With U / Raspberry Beret)

Mr. Happy is the eleventh track on the first disc of Prince’s 19th album Emancipation, the third album to be credited to .

While exact recording dates are not known, it is likely that basic tracking took place in March 1996, at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota (during the same set of sessions where Scrap D. recorded raps for I Rock, Therefore I Am and Da, Da, Da, and shouts for Style). It contains a repeated sample of "bought a house next to Prince", taken from What Can I Do? by Ice Cube (written by Leon Ware, Arthur Ross, Ice Cube, Mychal-Kaye Simmons and Victor Nathan Taylor, from his 1993 album Lethal Injection). The studio version was premiered at a Paisley Park Studios party on 24 August 1996 (a.m.).

• Prince (as ) - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
• Scrap D. - rap
• Ice Cube - sampled vocals (from What Can I Do?, Lethal Injection, 1993)

• Emancipation album

• Mr. Happy is a famous children’s book character in the Mr. Men series; this seems entirely unrelated to ’s song, however.

• The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)