"That Happy Feeling" is an instrumental pop music composed by Ghanaian musician Guy Warren in 1956 under the original title "An African's Prayer (Eyi Wala Dong)", and recorded as a single by Bert Kaempfert.

Background

The track was recorded on March 16, 1962, and featured as the second cut on his album A Swingin' Safari. That song and the title track were among the first pop instrumentals to incorporate elements of South African music. It is also the title track of what is virtually the same album as the German A Swingin' Safari, issued under a different name in America.

Chart performance

Although Kaempfert's recording of the tune only peaked at number 67 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, when issued as a single in 1962, its upbeat style, flute/marimba melody line and trumpet/trombone arpeggios combined with a full string section, a brass section, hand claps, guitars, and chorus helped it to become a staple of beautiful music radio.

Popular culture

The tune also proved to be a natural choice for locally produced children's television programming, especially in the United States: