Enunciation: dance feel happy, you clap your hands crosstalk is great, feel happy you clap your hands, feel happy you teach more.
The Happiness Clapping Song, also known as "If you are happy, clap your hands", is a popular Spanish children's song. The tune is similar to the interlude "Molodejnaya" from the 1938 Soviet musical film Volga Volga, and may have inspired or informed the song. The author of the song is unknown.
The song, which is widely sung and influential in Japan, is titled "幸せなら手をたたこう". It was written in 1964, with lyrics by Toshihito Kimura, a professor at the Department of Human Sciences at Waseda University, and rearranged by Takao Imaizumi, and sung all over Japan by the Japanese singer Sakamoto Kudo.
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Background of the song
The song was written by Toshihito Kimura, a professor at Waseda University, who heard the tune while volunteering in the Philippines while attending Waseda University.
Kimura was baptized into the Catholic Church at the age of 16, and later participated in the volunteer activities organized by the school for the Catholic faithful during his studies at Waseda University, and went to the Philippines. At that time, the past time of World War II was not very long, and there were a lot of people dying in the Philippines because of the war, and anti-Japanese sentiments were very heavy, and Kimura communicated with them through the Bible to convey the intention of peace, and the villagers in the Philippines were full of easing the enmity, and accepted him kindly. and accepted him kindly.
He heard the tune of the Spanish song in the elementary school where he was lodging, and wrote the lyrics in the cabin of the ship returning to Japan.
The lyrics to "Clap Your Hands" come from the first verse of the Bible's Psalm 47, "Clap your hands, all ye nations"? [2]? , to praise the LORD for the happiness he has given to all beings.
Subsequently, after returning to Japan and filling in the lyrics, the song was immediately sung in a circle of friends, and was later heard by the famous late Japanese singer Sakamoto Jiu, and was rearranged by the composer Imaizumi Takao, and ultimately recorded and published on May 15, 1964, and immediately became a hit in Japan.
At first, the author was unknown, so the early "Lyricist, Songwriter" was written as "Unknown", but later it was realized that the lyricist was Toshihito Kimura, so all the subsequent works were written with Kimura's name.
The song was used as the entrance song for the 37th Selection of Higher Education Schools for Field Hockey in 1965, and was selected as one of the "Top 100 Songs of Japan" in 2007.