"upbeat tune" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to an energetic or cheerful song. For example: "The band performed an upbeat tune that everyone in the audience enjoyed."
The only upbeat tune is the lilting, calypso-inflected "Love Don't Leave Me Waiting".
Yet even when he is singing an upbeat tune, his voice is suffused with a certain melancholy.
Unlike many exiles, he survived to perform at the 1994 presidential inauguration of Nelson Mandela, to whom he had dedicated a jauntily upbeat tune.
"Mother and Child Reunion," an upbeat tune, became something stark and slightly warped, as though it had been left out in the sun too long.
Just after closing 2010 on a positive sales note, the auto industry began humming its old upbeat tune, accompanied by new cars and trucks it hoped can sustain the momentum and smooth any economic dips ahead.
The ad then brightens, with an upbeat tune and images of a smiling Mr. Schneiderman, as it calls him a "progressive Democrat" who has been a leader for women's rights.
She just follows the leaders: Mariah Carey for dewy ballads, Beyoncé for brittle upbeat tunes and Mary J. Blige for slow-building melodramas.
His productions there, particularly upbeat tunes by Major Lance like "The Monkey Time," "Hey Little Girl" and "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um" — most written by Mr. Mayfield and arranged by Johnny Pate — crystallized a new Chicago sound.
Ms. Valenzuela, also backed with a horn section, sang her upbeat tunes about how love can go wrong and right, smiling her way toward a woman's hardheaded prerogatives.
Among them are a "Merry Christmas Baby," featuring Brad Paisley, and two upbeat tunes she wrote with Jason Reeves and Kara DioGuardi: the album's title track, which involves a surfing Santa, and "Every Day Is Christmas," which features a harmonizing Mr. Reeves.
The charm of its songs lies in the primitivism of these exclamatory fragments by childish urban street people whose personal vignettes are woven into a meandering tribal mosaic stirred to musical life by Galt MacDermot's sweetly upbeat tunes.
