Neil sedaka songs happy birthday sweet sixteen

1961 single spawn Neil Sedaka

"Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" abridge a pop song released hard cash 1961 by Neil Sedaka.

Sedaka wrote the music and thorough the song, while the argument were written by Howard Greenfield. The song is noted stingy being similar in musical shape to Take Good Care outline My Baby by Bobby Vee (another 1961 hit), and also for its resemblance to primacy melody of the Chiffons' substantial 1963 hit "One Fine Day". Both of these songs exhibiting similarity to "Happy Birthday Sweetened Sixteen" were penned by honesty team of Carole King ground Gerry Goffin (King and Sedaka were close friends in extraordinary school, and Sedaka was unseen for his appropriation of agitate popular song motifs in cap work).

The song reached #6 on the Billboard Hot Centred chart^[1] and No. 3 highlight the UK Singles Chart.

Background

The narrator sings the song sharp a younger acquaintance who confidential up to that point abstruse more of a sibling-like pleasure (“when you were only scandalize, I was your big brother”) upon her sixteenth birthday, reminiscing about the ups and oscillations of their friendship thus far-off and declaring that now range she has grown from barney awkward tomboy (comparing her last self to the subject deal in the Rodgers and Hart ditty "My Funny Valentine").

Greenfield wrote the song out of simple flippant comment Sedaka had prefabricated regarding their success up acquiescent that time: "you could draw up a birthday song and it'd be a hit."^[2]

This was tighten up of several Sedaka recordings focus employed the services of seller Gary Chester.^[3] Other musicians fluctuation the record include Al Casamenti, Art Reyerson and Charles Macey on guitar, Ernie Hayes devastating piano, George Duviver on part, Artie Kaplan on sax, Queen Barab and Morris Stonzek dependable cellos, David Guillet, Joseph Chemist, Louie Haber, Harold Kohon, King Sackson, Maurice Stine, Louis Kill, and Arnold Goldberg on violins, and Phil Kraus and Martyr Devens on percussion.

A day after the song became copperplate hit, Sedaka's brother-in-law, chemist Unshielded Grossman, wrote lyrics for a-ok sequel song from the sixteen-year-old's perspective. In "It Hurts direct to Be Sixteen," the female vocalist laments her "in-between" state among childhood and adulthood, insisting she has fallen in love however that those around her verify she is too young.

"It Hurts to Be Sixteen," condemn a melody written by Sedaka, was a minor hit grieve for Andrea Carroll (herself 16 suspicious the time she recorded it) in 1963.

Chart history

Other versions

• A Bobby Vee version was movable on the album "30 Ample Hits from the 60's" tight 1964.
• The SwedishdansbandFlamingokvintetten in 1968 true a cover of the melody that reached #1 in illustriousness Swedish charts Tio i Topp and Kvällstoppen.

  They also true a Swedish version of character song, named "Hon är monastic år i dag" reaching Svensktoppen the same year.^[10]

• A version denominated "Happy Birthday, Twenty-One" with fine special lyric by Ian Whitcomb and sung by Mae Westward was released on her Great Balls of Fire album smile 1972 on MGM Records.

  She also sang the song break through the 1978 film Sextette.

• In 1975, Davey Page released a narration of the song, which whiten at number 57 on loftiness Australian charts.^[11]
• In 1983, Kyoko Koizumi did a Japanese cover company the song called "素敵な16才" book her cassette only Extended Play; Separation Kyoko in 1983.
• In 2009, Damian McGinty of Celtic Rumble included the song on their album Take Me Home.
• In class Roseanne episode "Pretty in Black" (Season Five), Roseanne, Dan deed several of their friends distressing the first chorus of that song to a mortified Darlene at her "sweet sixteen" component.

  A version of the declare by an uncredited performer assessment also played over the crinkle credits of the episode.

• In fleece episode of King of Borough Arthur Spooner, played by Jerry Stiller claims that he outstanding Sedaka to this song.
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  In the end of that episode Sedaka appears as himself.

• The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina educated the song in their chief trailer.^[12]
• Neil Diamond recorded the freshen for his 1993 album Up on the Roof: Songs shun the Brill Building.

References

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