Which Hull group had a Top Five single in 1986 with 'Happy Hour’?
Happy Hour (The Housemartins song) and Nick Frost. Happy Hour (The Housemartins song) "Happy Hour" is a 1986 single by British indie rock band The Housemartins. It was the third single from the album "London 0 Hull 4" and reached number three in the UK Singles Chart. It was written on Wednesday 22 January 1986 - the same day "Me and the Farmer" was penned. The band's first big hit, it stayed on the singles chart for 13 weeks, peaking in the week of 28 June 1986. The song also enjoyed exposure on United States college radio. "Rolling Stone" noted that despite "irrepressibly giddy music
Happy hour phrase "happy hour," to refer to a scheduled period of entertainment is of much more recent vintage. One possible origin of the term "Happy Hour," in the sense of a scheduled period of entertainment, is from the United States Navy. In early 1913, a group of "home makers" called the "Happy Hour Social" organized "semi-weekly smokers" onboard . The name "Happy Hour Club," "Happy Hour Social Club," and similar variants, had been in use as the names of social clubs, primarily by women's social clubs, since at least the early 1880s. By June 1913, the crew of "Arkansas" had started