C’mon get happy 14/music Annie Mac, Radio 1 DJ


1. Donna Summer: Dim All The Lights Donna’s self-penned 1979 hit has


served as the soundtrack to a million smoochy boogies


2. Roy Ayers: Everybody Loves The Sunshine


Ayers’s jazz-funk anthem was released in 1976 and has since been sampled by numerous hip hop and R&B artists


3. Kelis feat. André 3000: Millionaire R&B singer-songwriter Kelis co-wrote this 2004 hit with André 3000, one half


of the hip hop duo OutKast. Got glitches in your computer? Reboota!


4. Friends: I’m His Girl


Feisty girl-fronted Brooklyn pop group Friends are behind this cool yet catchy 2011 love song with attitude to spare


5. Fleetwood Mac: Everywhere


Released in 1987, this single from the British-American rock band headed


up by Mick Fleetwood was written by Christine McVie and became one of the group’s biggest hits


What makes Annie smile?


‘A beautiful day. My dad being a joker. The right meal at the right time.


A swim in Hampstead ponds. A lie-in.’ 3. The Hangover: Stu’s Song


Fans of The Hangover fi lm will recall that our hapless protagonists must


return a tiger to its owner – Mike Tyson – without fi rst being eaten. This placatory feline-inspired lullaby is hilariously performed by actor Ed Helms


4. The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever


An invitation to turn on, tune in and


drop out, this song was released as a double A-side with Penny Lane in


1967. Delightfully skewed, charmingly random, totally genius


5. Masters At Work feat. India: To Be In Love


Soulful, jazzy and uplifting, this classic house track from New York producers Louie Vega and Kenny Gonzalez stormed the UK Top 40 in 1999


What makes Ben smile?


‘The Spurs’ midfi eld. The smell of sizzling bacon. Ibizan sunsets. New sheets on my bed. My two-year-old pronouncing the word “yellow”.’


Ben Lovett, Ocado PR (& DJ) 1. Nina Simone: Feeling Good


Written by English singer-songwriters Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse for the musical The Roar of the


Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd, but made entirely her own by Nina Simone in 1965. In 2010, NME readers voted Muse’s version of the song the greatest cover ever. A classic in any musical language


2. Brand New Heavies: Stay This Way Spine-tingingly good early 90s Brit soul glide. The Heavies, who hail from Ealing, pioneered UK acid jazz; this song


is taken from their fi rst, eponymous album, released 1990


Gideon Coe, 6 Music DJ 1. Chic: Good Times


Feel-good disco, laced with irony by co-writer Nile Rodgers and released in 1979. Rodgers went on to become the legendary producer behind Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, Carly Simon and Debbie Harry


2. Simon & Garfunkel: Old Friends


In a melancholic vein, this song from the Bookends album, which imagines a pair


of 70-year-old codgers on a park bench, was released in 1968, when the duo themselves were in their twenties


3. Tom Waits: Johnsburg, Illinois A love song written by the gravelly- voiced romantic to his new wife, Kathleen Brennan, from the


Swordfi shtrombones album of 1983 4. The Beatles: There’s A Place


Taken from The Beatles’ fi rst album, Please Please Me, released in


1963, this song exudes a touching, youthful optimism


5. Joni Mitchell: Carey Simultaneously celebratory and doomed, Mitchell’s melancholic drinking song, set in the Mermaid Cafe, never fails to raise hairs on the back of the neck


What makes Gideon smile?


‘Okay. Lots of things. A good episode of MASH. A Steve Bell cartoon in The Guardian. The last chorus on the live


version of The Band’s The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.’


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