Bobby McFerrin:

Simple Pleasures:(1988)

I'm sure you can guess the exact reason I own this record. Now, sure, this album contained a top ten hit with, Don't Worry Be Happy. And, never mind that Bobby McFerrin has won ten Grammy Awards. I dig that he has attained the mythical status of "Urban Legend". It must have been around the time I was in eighth grade when the story circulated that the man who sang Don't Worry Be Happy had committed suicide. A darkly humorous bit of fiction. I remember being in an English class when I heard the "news". Our teach butted in, and asked what we were talking about. He laughed out loud when we told him. Then he told us that it was a funny story, but couldn't true because his mother had just seen McFerrin the night before in concert in Florida. And as it stands in March of 2017, the Jazz vocalist known as Bobby McFerrin is still very much alive.