hahabogus wrote on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:31:56 GMT:

>> hahabogus wrote:
>>> So like the song says Don't
>>> worry...be happy (BTW the composer killed himself). A fixed
>>> bedtime routine works wonders, works kinda like self
>>> hypnosis.
>>
>> I googled on "Don't worry be happy" and learned from
>> Wikipedia that the song is by musician Bobby McFerrin.
>> McFerrin is still living. The phrase is an expression often
>> used by Meher Baba. He was injured in a car wreck which
>> caused him considerable pain. He died in 1968. While he did
>> engage in seclusion, meditation, and fasting, and while these
>> may have contributed to his death in some way, no mention was
>> made of suicide.
>>
>> --Lia
>>
> I stand corrected, I mistakingly believed McFerrin did himself
> in.

Have a look at the Wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_M...Bobby_McFerrin

He is an absolutely remarkable musician in popular, jazz and classical
music! I've heard him and he's hard to believe!

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not