Birthday

About Birthday

Happy Birthday (Merry Christmas and Happy New Year) is a country song written by Ron Kitson, published by Sure-Fire Music, and recorded by Loretta Lynn in the fall of 1964 and released before Christmas of that year on Decca Records as a 45-rpm single. "Happy Birthday" was not only an instant country hit, but up until Christmas of that year was receiving considerable airplay on pop-rock stations on the east and west coasts of the United States and was a "Pick Hit of the Week" on WWDC, Washington, DC. The song continued its rise up the country charts well into the spring of 1965, reaching #3 on the Billboard Country Charts. "Happy Birthday" spent 15 weeks in the top ten and received a BMI award in 1965. The song was included on Lynn's 1964 album Songs from My Heart.... and again in 1968 on Lynn's first greatest hits album, as well as appearing on many of Lynn's greatest hits CD collections. According to Kitson, "I first sang the song to Loretta back stage at the Horse Shoe Nightclub where she was appearing in Toronto, Ontario and she wanted a tape of it which she took back to Nashville where she recorded it a few weeks later. She first performed it on the Grand Ole Opry with Connie Smith providing harmony during the DJ Convention in Nashville in October 1964." more »

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1996

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Had a birthday yesterday, she cried.
Took off her glasses, let her hair down, and sighed.
She told them all at work, about her day.
How is it no one came? Woe, woe.

Took the invitations to her friends;
They were too busy, doing other things.
Told them all at work, about her day.
How is it no one came? Woe, woe.

She took the decorations from the wall.
It was the ladder loose, that made her fall.
She told them all at work, about her day.
How is it no one came? Woe, woe.

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The Fall

The Fall are an English post-punk band, formed in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, in 1976. With an ever-changing line up, the group essentially consists of its founder and only constant member, Mark E. Smith, who has said "If it's me and your granny on bongos, then it's [the] Fall". First associated with the late 1970s punk movement, the band's music has evolved through numerous stylistic changes, often concurrently with changes in the group's membership. The Fall's music is characterised by repetition, an abrasive guitar-driven sound, and is always underpinned by Smith's often cryptic lyrics, described by critic Steve Huey as "abstract poetry filled with complicated wordplay, bone-dry wit, cutting social observations, and general misanthropy." more »

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