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Put On a Happy Face

Written: 1960

Music by: Charles Strouse

Words by: Lee Adams

Written for: Bye Bye Birdie
(show, 1960)
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Blossom Dearie

performing

"Put on A Happy Face"

From the album May I Come In
accompanied by orchestra led by Jack Marshall
(1964)

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"Put On a Happy Face"

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About the Show and Movie Bye Bye Birdie / Origins of the Song

Songs from Bye Bye Birdie other than "Put on a Happy Face" currently included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook: none

 

For a complete list of songs written for the original Broadway show, see IBDB song list.

 

For a complete list of songs used in the movie, See IMDB soundtrack.

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Research Resources:
Lee Adams
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Cafe Songbook
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Lee Adams


Golden Boy (Original Broadway Cast), 1964
with lyrics by Lee Adams and music by
Charles Strouse
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Bye Bye Birdie (Original Broadway Cast, 1960)
with lyrics by Lee Adams and music by
Charles Strouse
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Lee Adams and Charles Strouse discuss the 2009 Broadway revival of Bye Bye Birdie
for which they wrote the lyrics and music respectively.
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Lyrics Lounge (This section is currently in preparation.)


The complete, authoritative lyrics for "Put on a Happy Face'" can be found in:


book cover: "Reading Lyrics" Ed. by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball
Reading Lyrics,
Edited and with an Introduction by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.


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"Put On a Happy Face"


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