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  • Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen
subject
  • 1961 songs
  • Songs with lyrics by Howard Greenfield
  • Songs written by Neil Sedaka
  • Neil Sedaka songs
  • Flamingokvintetten songs
abstract
  • %22Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen%22 is a pop song released in 1961 by Neil Sedaka. Sedaka wrote the music and performed the song, while the lyrics were written by Howard Greenfield. The song is noted for being similar in musical structure to Take Good Care of My Baby by Bobby Vee (another 1961 hit), and additionally for its resemblance to the melody of the Chiffons' subsequent 1963 hit %22One Fine Day%22. Both of these songs exhibiting similarity to %22Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen%22 were penned by the team of Carole King and Gerry Goffin. The song reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and no 3 on the UK Singles Chart.The narrator sings the song to a childhood friend of his upon her sixteenth birthday, reminiscing about the ups and downs of their friendship thus far and declaring that now that she has grown from an awkward tomboy into a beautiful young lady, he wants her for his girlfriend.This was one of several Sedaka recordings that employed the services of drummer Gary Chester.other musicians on the record include Al Casamenti, Art Reyerson and Charles Macey on guitar, Ernie Hayes on piano, George Duviver on bass, Artie Kaplan on sax, Seymour Barab and Morris Stonzek on cellos, David Guillet, Joseph Haber, Louie Haber, Harold Kohon, David Sackson, Maurice Stine, Louis Stone, and Arnold Goldberg on violins, and Phil Kraus and George Devens on percussion.
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  • Howard Greenfield
  • Neil Sedaka
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  • USSM10022859
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  • 3094
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  • 1015190
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  • english
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  • RCA Records
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  • 1961
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  • Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen
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  • TRRKVDY128F4263717
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