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The closest to “country hog” is the babyback ribs, there is no hot dog mentioned. Case in point: Longhorn Steakhouse.Īside from the fried chicken, none of these items appear on Longhorn’s menu. Some restaurant birthday songs are perplexing at best. Don’t worry, Chili’s wait staff, I’m sorry I?came here too. This song is sung at a lightning quick pace, because the grumbling wait staff has to get back to the drudgery of serving you. Some of the songs played into the sympathy of the birthday party, hoping some mild complaining might lead to a greater tip. These songs were terrible, no question about it, but they had a certain charm of “beating the system.” Like during prohibition when people would buy grape juice concentrate that contained explicit instructions on how NOT to turn the product into wine, these corporate birthday songs were winking at the fact they couldn’t sing the actual birthday song, but that they had to do something to get the point across when they handed out the free slice of cake. I’m happy to see the old songs pass but as requisite living in this age of instant nostalgia, I’m a bit melancholy. I can’t imagine these chains will keep singing their makeshift songs when the Cadillac of happy birthday songs, “Happy Birthday,” is available. National restaurant chains have spent countless hours screaming off-key songs directly into the faces of tolerant patrons looking to score a free piece of cake.Īnd now they too go the way of the dodo … hopefully. The dissolution of the Happy Birthday copyright is the correct course of action, don’t get me wrong the fact that it was ever copyrighted material is frankly shocking.įor a few years now television, tired of having to craft not only imaginative plot lines as well as catchy birthday songs, has paid to use the regular Happy Birthday song, so I don’t imagine a sudden rush of shows prominently featuring new uses for “Happy Birthday.” Any stupider than the regular Happy Birthday song? Not in the slightest. He’s laughing and smiling, my goodness, it’s you! So look all around you until you see who, It’s somebody right in this room near you, Since most of the show’s budget was spent on Judith Light’s gigantic hair/sweaters they had no money left to line Warner/Chappell’s deep coffers, which led to the creation of this: Tony (Tony Danza) and Mona (Katherine Marie Helmond) surprised Angela (Judith Light) with a birthday song during breakfast. The musicians on this list were able to capture all of those hyper-specific but universally felt emotions, and then some.įrom classic tracks that will make you want to “party like it’s your birthday,” even when it’s not (a la 50 Cent), to deep cuts that have you questioning your own mortality (we’re looking at you, Sufjan Stevens’ “Happy Birthday”), check out Billboard’s ranking of the 30 best birthday songs below.Case in point: The landmark 80s sitcom “Who’s the Boss?” Along with all the cake, candles, streamers and presents come bittersweet, complicated feelings about turning one year older, from nostalgia for birthdays past to unbridled terror for the future, grief for one’s youth, confusion over what to do next and total happiness at the chance to live life to the fullest for another trip around the sun.
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It’s definitely a good thing that there’s such an abundance of birthday-themed music, because let’s face it - birthdays can be complex. Artists from Lesley Gore in the ‘60s to Stevie Wonder in the ‘80s to Katy Perry in the 21st century have all completely reinvented the long-established birthday singing tradition, with new and inventive melodies of their own. Whether you love it or hate it, it’s safe to say the tune and its many extended versions and comedic renditions aren’t going anywhere… but it doesn’t have to be the only song that defines your big day.
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In 1998, the Guinness Book of World Records even named it the most recognized song in the English language, more than a century after it was first written by sisters Mildred and Patty Smith Hill for the 1893 book titled Song Stories for the Kindergarten. Gathering friends and family around a candlelit cake to sing “Happy Birthday to You” has been a birthday tradition in English-speaking households for over a century.