Loosen Up Laughter with Music Hey diddle, diddle, with a smile and a giggle, we laugh more on Belly Laugh Day, January 24. We send our laughs to the moon. Belly Laugh Day Music: Powder Your Face with Sunshine (Smile, Smille, Smile) I Love to Laugh, Mary Poppins Smile, Vitamin C Always Look on the Bright Side of Life-Company Bow Monty Python's Spamalot The Merry ol' Land of Oz, Wizard of Oz original soundtrack Walking on Sunshine Katrina and the Waves Zipadee Do Dah Sunny Side of the Street I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover Let a Smile be Your Umbrella  Hoop-Dee-Do Here Comes the Sun, George Harrison Sir Duke, Stevie Wonder Celebrate, Kool and the Gang I Just Want to Celebrate, Rare Earth From an interview with John Lithgow: read full interview Why do adults like it so much too? Specifically, why do these tunes linger? Why do images of Lithgow dancing and pratfalling, mugging and preening, play in our minds when we hear this music? Even the sound of the band, an intimate little group that can swing or get sentimental on command, invites itself into our day, no matter what serious, grownup things we’ve got scheduled. “The secret is that these songs were actually written to entertain adults,” the distinguished actor, multiple Emmy, Tony and Golden Globe Award winner, former Fulbright scholar, multiple Oscar nominee, star of the upcoming NBC sitcom Twenty Good Years, and banjo-playing entertainer explains. “They came from the good old days of Tin Pan Alley,” he continues, “from vaudeville or from musicals of the twenties and thirties. They have a wonderful lightheartedness because people in those days didn’t mind being silly. In fact, for a lot of singers and writers, that was their stock in trade. People listened for jokes and rhymes and wit in ways they seldom do now. So I thought, well, this is exactly the kind of music I’d love to introduce to kids today.”