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

1-CD digipak with 36 page booklet, 32 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min.

The first CD compilation with tunes from the fifties and early sixties around the theme 'Birthday'.
A great birthday gift, because .... everybody has birthday, and that every year anew!
The CD album on Bear Family Records® comes with a 'birthday sticker' on which you can inscribe the name of the birthday child.
Besides classics by the Tune Weavers, Neal Sedaka or Paul Anka, ‘Happy Birthday, Baby! - 32 (Un-) Happy Tunes For Your Birthday Party’ delivers some rarities like Tino’s Got The Birthday Blues Again, Barry Mann's Happy Birthday Broken Heart and the German version Happy Birthday Josefin (Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen) by the Key Brothers.
Seven songs on CD for the first time!
Detailed liner notes by Bill Dahl.

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!

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Album titlle: Happy Birthday Baby! - 32 (Un-) Happy Tunes For Your Birthday Party (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AH
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127176950
weight in Kg 0.115

Various Artists - Happy Birthday Baby! - 32 (Un-) Happy Tunes For Your Birthday Party (CD) CD 1
01	Birthday Cake	Randy Hughes
02	Happy Birthday Boogie	Louis Jordan
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

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From: Dusty Grooves On:15 Sep 2023

A batch of party-hearty numbers hand-picked by the folks at Bear Family Records!

Celebrate your birthday with this cool little collection – a batch of party-hearty numbers hand-picked by the folks at Bear Family records – a label we've come to really trust for postwar sounds in just about any style! And just about any style is the way they approach this set too – mixing early rockers with hillbilly tracks, R&B, vocal numbers, and more – all with a vibe that's every bit as playful and punchy as some of their other titles of this nature! As with those sets, the theme is taken in a nice and loose style!

From: Promo Bear On:5 May 2023

Die Party kann starten!

Der Untertitel dieser neuen Kollektion von Bear Family Records lautet: "32 (Un-)Happy Tunes For Your Birthday Party". Ja, da bietet man uns zweiunddreißig Songs, die sich mit dem Geburtstag beschäftigen. Begleitet wird diese Sammlung selbstverständlich wieder durch ein Booklet, sechsunddreißig Seiten stark mit detaillierten Ausführungen zu jedem Track und Künstler von Bill Dahl.

Nicht alle Songs der CD wird man kennen, am ehesten sprang mir Lesley Gore mit "It’s My Party" ins Auge. Zeitlich bewegen sich die Songs im Rahmen von 1951 bis 1965. Neben Lesley Gore wird man allerdings weitere bekannte Künstler*innen entdecken wie den Jump Blueser/Rhythm & Blueser Louis Jordan, Neil Sedaka, The Four Seasons, Jerry Lee Lewis, Paul Anka und Wanda Jackson.

Aber auch nicht so bekannte Acts haben sich mit diesem Glückwunsch-Thema beschäftigt, und so kann man solche wie Sil Austin, The Pixies Three, Glenn Barber, The Shells, Tino oder Janie Grant kennen lernen. Sieben Songs sind es, die hier erstmalig Platz auf eine CD-Veröffentlichung fanden.

Im Einzelnen fielen mir folgende Songs aufgrund ihrer Gestaltung auf: Das herrlich swingende und treibende "Happy Birthday Boogie" von Louis Jordan mit sattem instrumentalen Bläserarrangement und dem honkenden Saxofon des Meisters selbst, das herrlich schmalzende "When’s Your Birthday, Baby" von Johnnie Ray, der seiner Angebeteten einen Mond kaufen möchte, der herrlich harmonische Pop-Sound von Neil Sedaka, Glenn Barber mit Country-Feeling, der laszive im Cha Cha Cha-Modus wiegende Song von Bob Azzam & His Orchestra, klar – und wie sollte es anders sein – Jerry Lee Lewis lässt die Geburtstagsparty rocken!

Wir erfahren im Booklet, dass sich hinter Tino der Musiker Raymond De Martino verbirgt, auch er kann mit Rock’n’Roll die Party in Schwung bringen. Lawrence Walker And His Wandering Aces feiert nun eine ganz andere Party, hier im Cajun-Stil Lousianas. Ganz dramatisch im Balladen-Stil beendet Paul Anka mit seinem schmachtenden "Did You Have A Happy Birthday?" die Kollektion, seine Geliebte schien ihren Geburtstag wohl mit einem Anderen verbracht zu haben, das merkt man Paul auch gewaltig an in seinem Vortrag….Egal – von vorn das Ganze – und die Party kann starten!

Wolfgang Giese/Rocktimes