Hi-Tension (lead vocalist Jeffrey Guishard, Paul and Patrick McLean, David and Ken Joseph, Paul Phillips, David Reid and Leroy Williams) were first to record "You Make Me Happy" (D. Townsend - B. Jackson - D. Conley) in 1984.

Surface (lead vocalist Bernard Jackson, David Conley and David Townsend) covered their own song, now titled "Happy", on their self-titled debut album. The 1987 single peaked at number twenty on the Top One Hundred, number two R&B and sixteen on Billboard's Hot Dance chart.