Happy Birthday Baby! - 32 (Un-) Happy Tunes For Your Birthday Party

Everyone knows the simple words and melody to Happy Birthday. But there are a great many other musical methods of conveying sincere natal day wishes. A bounty of them comprise Bear Family Records Happy Birthday, Baby! - 32 (Un-) Happy Tunes For Your Birthday Party, guaranteed to make any celebration more fun. Neil Sedaka’s Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen is a must, as are Johnny Crawford’s Cindy’s Birthday and The Tuneweavers‘ Happy, Happy Birthday Baby—but no more so than the late Jerry Lee Lewis‘ gloriously salacious Birthday Cake (Keep Your Hands Off Of It) or Lesley Gore’s heartbroken It’s My Party. R&B greats Louis Jordan, Sil Austin, and Claudine Clark chime in with rollicking greetings, as do rockabilly warriors Steve Carl, Wanda Jackson, and Glenn Barber. There’s a teen element here too, courtesy of Paul Anka, Kathy Young & The Innocents, and The Pixies Three; pop wailer Johnnie Ray checks in with When’s Your Birthday, Baby. The next time your birthday rolls around, just pop this collection into your CD machine and push ‘play’—it’s an instant party! 

01 Birthday Cake - Randy Hughes 02 Happy Birthday Boogie - Louis Hordan 03 Birthday Party - Sil Austin 04 When's Your Birthday, Baby - Johnnie Ray 05 It's My Party - Lesley Gore 06 Happy, Happy Birthday Baby - The Tuneweavers 07 Happy Birthday, Baby - The Four Knights 08 Happy Birthday Baby - Claudine Clark 09 Cindy's Birthday - Shane Fenton & The Fentones 10 Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen - Neil Sedaka 11 Happy Birthday Broken Heart - Barry Mann 12 Birthday Party - The Pixies Three 13 I Want A Girl For My Birthday - The Chevelles 14 I Want A Boy For My Birthday - The Cookies 15 Happy Happy Birthday - Smiley Monroe with Skylite Joe's Playmen 16 Happy Birthday Broken Heart - Glenn Barber 17 Happy Birthday Blues  - Kathy Young & The Innocents 18 Happy, Happy Birthday Baby - The Four Seasons 19 A Toast To Your Birthday - The Shells 20 It's My Birthday - Big Dee Irwin 21 Happy Birthday Cha Cha - Bob Azzam & His Orchestra 22 Birthday Cake (Keep Your Hands Off Of It) - Jerry Lee Lewis 23 Got The Birthday Blues Again - Tino 24 18 Year Old Blues - Steve Carl & The Jags 25 Keep Your Hands Off Of It - Lawrence Walker & His Wandering Aces 26 Lonely Birthday - Jim Mitchum 27 Happy Birthday Josefin (Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen) - The Key Brothers 28 Unhappy Birthday - Janie Grant 29 Cindy's Birthday - Johnny Crawford 30 Happy, Happy Birthday Baby - Wanda Jackson 31 A Teenage Birthday - Tommy Lam 32 Did You Have A Happy Birthday - Paul Anka