Three 'Feel Good' pieces for you.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Three is a bit too limiting but my choices would include.

Several of F J Haydn's symphonies
The ending of Stravinsky's Firebird
Parry Symphony No 3
Copland Symphony No 3
Piston Violin Concerto No 1
Mendelssohn Octet
Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra
Vaughan Williams Five Tudor Portraits

[Dave2002]

An extra one added to my previous suggestions, and shortly to be relevant:

Alfvén: Midsommarvaka.

Usually makes me laugh, and there's a tune which nearly always reminds me of "the red, red robin, comes bob, bob bobbin' along".

[cloughie]

Tony Bennett: The Very Thought of You
Vikki Carr: Surrey with the fringe on top
Manhattan Transfer:Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.

[ahinton]

Tony Bennett: The Very Thought of You
Vikki Carr: Surrey with the fringe on top
Manhattan Transfer:Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.

And their respective composers were...?...

[Richard Tarleton]

I normally dislike anything smacking of minimalism, in fact I experience a tightening knot of tension at the back of my head when listening to anything by Messrs Reich, Glass, Adams etc. - it's a definite physiological reaction. But I have a very soft spot for my one and only Penguin Cafe Orchestra disc - I only discovered them in the last few years, and this disc makes me feel good, for some reason. Try
Music for a Found Harmonium
Telephone and Rubber Band and
Beanfields

[cloughie]

And their respective composers were...?...

Ray Noble
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
Manning Sherwin and Eric Maschwitz

I specified those versions because there are others which to me are not feel good versions.

The Tony Bennett with the beautiful Bobby Hackett cornet solo
The Vikki Carr - smashing arrangement, don't like many musical versions sung straight
Manhattan Transfer - the harmonies and Gene Spurling arrangement superb.

Any particular reason for your asking a?

[ahinton]

Ray Noble
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
Manning Sherwin and Eric Maschwitz

I specified those versions because there are others which to me are not feel good versions.

The Tony Bennett with the beautiful Bobby Hackett cornet solo
The Vikki Carr - smashing arrangement, don't like many musical versions sung straight
Manhattan Transfer - the harmonies and Gene Spurling arrangement superb.

Any particular reason for your asking a?

Only that such works are so often credited to their performers rather than their composers - certainly not because I'd assumed that you might not know!...

[ahinton]

Ray Noble
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
Manning Sherwin and Eric Maschwitz

I specified those versions because there are others which to me are not feel good versions.

The Tony Bennett with the beautiful Bobby Hackett cornet solo
The Vikki Carr - smashing arrangement, don't like many musical versions sung straight
Manhattan Transfer - the harmonies and Gene Spurling arrangement superb.

Any particular reason for your asking a?

Only that such works are so often credited to their performers rather than to their composers - certainly not because I'd assumed that you might not know!...