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Happy Days by Catherine Wheel
Happy Days is an album by Catherine Wheel, released in 1995. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 19 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Judy Staring At The Sun”, on 19 lists with a best position of #61.
Happy Days, Catherine Wheel's third album, came out on 6 June 1995, on Fontana in Britain and Mercury in America, with Gil Norton back in the producer's chair after Chrome. The band from Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft had started out in the shoegaze fog, but by now they were leaning hard on their amps, and this record pushes further toward heavy, metal-tinged rock, the guitars thick and grinding under Rob Dickinson's smooth, sad croon.
The softer moment that radio grabbed was "Judy Staring at the Sun", with Tanya Donelly guesting: on the album she sings only the chorus and Dickinson takes every verse, while the single mix handed her the second verse too. The record also got them into the Billboard 200 for the first time, if only at number 163.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Happy Days on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judy Staring At The Sun | 19 | #61 | – | 1995–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.