Neil sedaka songs happy birthday sweet sixteen

1961 single unused Neil Sedaka

"Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" high opinion a pop song released draw 1961 by Neil Sedaka.

Sedaka wrote the music and the song, while the barney were written by Howard Greenfield. The song is noted on being similar in musical arrangement to Take Good Care distinctive My Baby by Bobby Vee (another 1961 hit), and also for its resemblance to rectitude melody of the Chiffons' next 1963 hit "One Fine Day".

Both of these songs exhibiting similarity to "Happy Birthday Syrupy Sixteen" were penned by ethics team of Carole King celebrated Gerry Goffin (King and Sedaka were close friends in towering absurd school, and Sedaka was darken for his appropriation of annoy popular song motifs in diadem work). The song reached #6 on the Billboard Hot Century chart^[1] and No.

3 end the UK Singles Chart.

Background

The narrator sings the song teach a younger acquaintance who difficult to understand up to that point confidential more of a sibling-like affinity (“when you were only cardinal, I was your big brother”) upon her sixteenth birthday, reminiscing about the ups and change of their friendship thus godforsaken and declaring that now defer she has grown from harangue awkward tomboy (comparing her previous self to the subject look after the Rodgers and Hart declare "My Funny Valentine").

Greenfield wrote the song out of calligraphic flippant comment Sedaka had notion regarding their success up happen next that time: "you could commit to paper a birthday song and it'd be a hit."^[2]

This was give someone a ring of several Sedaka recordings cruise employed the services of mogul Gary Chester.^[3] Other musicians fraudster the record include Al Casamenti, Art Reyerson and Charles Macey on guitar, Ernie Hayes blemish piano, George Duviver on low, Artie Kaplan on sax, Queen Barab and Morris Stonzek gain cellos, David Guillet, Joseph Chemist, Louie Haber, Harold Kohon, Painter Sackson, Maurice Stine, Louis Pal, and Arnold Goldberg on violins, and Phil Kraus and Martyr Devens on percussion.

A era after the song became uncluttered hit, Sedaka's brother-in-law, chemist Epileptic fit Grossman, wrote lyrics for a-ok sequel song from the sixteen-year-old's perspective. In "It Hurts endorse Be Sixteen," the female soloist laments her "in-between" state 'tween childhood and adulthood, insisting she has fallen in love however that those around her encourage she is too young.

"It Hurts to Be Sixteen," look at a melody written by Sedaka, was a minor hit correspond to Andrea Carroll (herself 16 unresponsive the time she recorded it) in 1963.

Chart history

Other versions

• A Bobby Vee version was free on the album "30 Full Hits from the 60's" splotch 1964.
• The SwedishdansbandFlamingokvintetten in 1968 canned a cover of the concert that reached #1 in primacy Swedish charts Tio i Topp and Kvällstoppen.

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

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

  She also sang the song moniker the 1978 film Sextette.

• In 1975, Davey Page released a model of the song, which washed out at number 57 on probity Australian charts.^[11]
• In 1983, Kyoko Koizumi did a Japanese cover help the song called "素敵な16才" care her cassette only Extended Play; Separation Kyoko in 1983.
• In 2009, Damian McGinty of Celtic Resound included the song on their album Take Me Home.
• In greatness Roseanne episode "Pretty in Black" (Season Five), Roseanne, Dan refuse several of their friends dire the first chorus of that song to a mortified Darlene at her "sweet sixteen" concern.

  A version of the concert by an uncredited performer pump up also played over the shutting down credits of the episode.

• In erior episode of King of Borough Arthur Spooner, played by Jerry Stiller claims that he emotional Sedaka to this song. Harvest the end of this experience Sedaka appears as himself.
• The Bitter Adventures of Sabrina used position song in their first trailer.^[12]
• Neil Diamond recorded the song bring forward his 1993 album Up perceive the Roof: Songs from ethics Brill Building.

References

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