THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

934-Bing Crosby and The Andrew Sisters-Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive.

1944-Has never charted in the UK, there was no chart until 1952.

Best Bit-At 1.18.It is quite possibly the first ever ‘Happy Clappy’ song.

The song was written by Harold Arden (see also best songs 634-281 and 68,) who provided the music, and Johnny Mercer (see also best songs 281 and 45,) who wrote the lyrics.Mercer explained his inspiration for the songs subject,’ I went to hear Father Divine(1876-1965) and he had a sermon, and his subject was ‘you got to accentuate the positive, and eliminate the negative,’ and I said, wow, that’s a colourful phrase.’ It would be around five years later that Mercer, when discussing songs he was working on with Harold Arden, finally put that phrase, that had stuck in his head all those years, down on paper.

The first recording of the song was by Mercer himself, with ‘The Pied Pipers,’ their version reached Number 2 on Billboard in 1944.Later on in the year, this version by Bing Crosby (see also best songs 457) and the Andrew Sisters (see also best songs 252,) also peaked at Number 2 on Billboard.

In 1944 the song was used in the American romantic comedy,’Here Comes the Waves,’ starring Bing Crosby, where he performs the song, but not with The Andrew Sisters.

‘To illustrate his last remark,Jonah in the whale, Noah in the Arc.’