Don't Worry, Be Happy Don't Worry, Be Happy "Don't Worry, Be Happy" is a popular worldwide hit song by musician Bobby McFerrin. Released in September 1988, it became the first "a cappella" song to reach number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart, a position it held for two weeks. The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894–1969) often used the expression "Don't worry, be happy" when cabling his followers in the West. In the 1960s, the expression was printed up on inspirational cards and posters of the era. In 1988, McFerrin noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz duo Tuck
Overboard (a cappella) Overboard's third album, "Castaways", a compilation of oldies and a cappella standards, was released in September 2008. Their fourth album, "Tidings", a collection of holiday songs, was released in November 2008. Tidings received a Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award (CARA) nomination for Best Holiday Album and won a CARA for Best Holiday Song ("We Three Kings"). In 2009, the track was chosen for "CASC: Christmas A Cappella Volume 1", an international holiday compilation album co-released by CASA and A Cappella Records. Begun in the spring of 2009, Overboard’s fifth album, "Help!", was inspired by the release of the newly remastered