Retro Video of the Week: "Key Largo" by Bertie Higgins and "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin

With the passing of two film legends, Lauren Bacall and Robin Williams, the past two days, I can't think of two more appropriate Retro Videos of the Week than "Key Largo" by Bertie Higgins and "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin.

Higgins's 1981 soft rock hit was inspired by Bacall and Humphrey Bogart's 1948 film of the same name, and of course contains the memorable chorus that starts out, "We had it all / Just like Bogie and Bacall."  The song was Higgins's only Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, making it all the way up to #8 in early 1982.  It also came in at #75 on VH1's "100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the '80s" countdown a few years ago.  

As for Williams, there aren't many songs from the MTV era that I really associate with his movies, other than the Elliot Smith songs from Good Will Hunting, which really didn't seem like they would be in good taste, given the whole suicide thing.  Then I remembered he was in the video for "Don't Worry, Be Happy."  The irony of the song title is not lost on me, given what we now know about Williams's battles with depression.  You never want someone to take his own life, but it's especially sad when it's someone as hilarious as Williams and someone who was apparently one of the nicest guys in Hollywood.  The song hit #1 on the Billboard charts for two weeks in 1988, becoming the first a cappella song to reach #1, and was also on VH1's "100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the '80s," landing at #31.