[caution:  not new, and less than kitschy -- undiscriminating only need apply]

If we’re going to slide completely into giddy joyfulness, although it doesn’t have quite the toe-tap’n bass-n-backbeat and musicianship and orchestration and lyrics and profound genius that Mr. Blue Sky-yyyyyyy boasts, this has to rank up there as sunny ice-creamy 80s pudding ………… (two fingies on the keys…& watch the drummer...hehe)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JsKlZaYNnM&feature=related

n knowin my mom, I probably listened to this one in the crib …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hGlYT38DZY&feature=related

oh & who would ever let REM live this down…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbGSDkvh8B0

there’s one other, right on the edge of my mind, the video has a proscenium stage set with a choir of bouncy kids and adults on risers and an emcee or choral director: …is it The Flaming Lips? …or …shoot …just beyond recollection….           oh yeah, & there's one more too ... lots of band ... so much percussion ... played a gig on the Gong Show ... big orchestrations and dramaticallunacy to boot (...shoot...what....