Welcome to Chillers, the ongoing series where we take a look at songs that give me goosebumps. Beginning in 2026, new entries will be posted weekly on WordPress with an automatic cross-post to Bluesky.

My Happiness is a traditional love story set to the warm and gentle vocals of John and Fiona Prine, covering the original 1948 hit by Jon and Sandra Steele. You can hear the lyrical simplicity of a song approaching its 85th birthday — a reflection of the demands, style, and emotional expectations of mid-20th-century music.

It’s a man, it’s a woman, and they’re in love.

That’s it.

And that’s the beauty.

Plodding along with soft guitar plucks and tender harmonies, the duet expresses devotion in straightforward phrases that would never pass modern lyric standards — yet feel profoundly comforting because of that simplicity. It’s a reminder of an era where love songs didn’t need metaphor, complexity, or narrative twists. The feeling itself was enough.

Listening to the Prines take this classic and deliver it with such sincerity highlights how much the musical landscape has shifted in a relatively short time — and how refreshing it can be to revisit a world where earnestness was the whole point.