Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Oboe" in Spanish language version.
With its incessant and infectious guitar riff, addictive chorus and backing vocals, simple drum and organ parts, and even an oboe playing along during the second chorus, "Happy Together" is perhaps the quintessential example of fresh, feel-good 1960s American pop despite its somewhat ironical tone and the fact that its verses are in a minor key.
The oboe is principally a melodic instrument; it has a rustic character, full of tenderness, I would say even of shyness. [...]The sounds of the oboe are suitable for expressing simplicity, artless grace, gentle happiness, or the grief of a weak soul. It renders these admirably in cantabile passages.