“The Happy Organ” may be one of the most accurately descriptive titles ever on a pop hit. From its opening notes, Dave “Baby” Cortez’s rollicking recording is a happy, exuberant, organ-based ...

Pop music is an art form driven by happy accidents, and one of those happy accidents is what brought "The Happy Organ" into the world. Dave "Baby" Cortez, a Detroit musician and doo-wop singer, was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dave “Baby” Cortez, a piano player and songwriter best known for his rollicking 1959 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “The Happy Organ” ...

In 1959, the year after Billboard launched their Hot 100 chart, Dave “Baby” Cortez scored his only #1 hit with a silly two-minute tune he wrote called "The Happy Organ." He released a handful of ...

We do not know anything but the basics of his years in Detroit: born here, attended Northwestern High, sang some doo-wop. We do know that Dave "Baby" Cortez had a groundbreaking No. 1 hit in the early ...