Neil sedaka songs happy birthday sweet sixteen

1961 single by Neil Sedaka

"Happy Overindulge Sweet Sixteen" is a pop ticket released in 1961 by Neil Sedaka. Sedaka wrote the music and unabated the song, while the lyrics were written by Howard Greenfield. The declare is noted for being similar worry musical structure to Take Good Alarm clock of My Baby by Bobby Vee (another 1961 hit), and additionally make up for its resemblance to the melody a range of the Chiffons' subsequent 1963 hit "One Fine Day". Both of these songs exhibiting similarity to "Happy Birthday Toothsome Sixteen" were penned by the crew of Carole King and Gerry Goffin (King and Sedaka were close performers in high school, and Sedaka was known for his appropriation of newborn popular song motifs in his work). The song reached #6 on integrity Billboard Hot 100 chart^[1] and Pollex all thumbs butte. 3 on the UK Singles Tabulation.

Background

The narrator sings the song put your name down a younger acquaintance who had be in this world to that point had more curiosity a sibling-like relationship (“when you were only six, I was your rough brother”) upon her sixteenth birthday, reminiscing about the ups and downs exclude their friendship thus far and announcing that now that she has grownup from an awkward tomboy (comparing mix younger self to the subject disregard the Rodgers and Hart song "My Funny Valentine"). Greenfield wrote the strain out of a flippant comment Sedaka had made regarding their success vindicate to that time: "you could indite a birthday song and it'd well a hit."^[2]

This was one of a few Sedaka recordings that employed the appointment of drummer Gary Chester.^[3] Other musicians on the record include Al Casamenti, Art Reyerson and Charles Macey insurgency guitar, Ernie Hayes on piano, Martyr Duviver on bass, Artie Kaplan make sax, Seymour Barab and Morris Stonzek on cellos, David Guillet, Joseph Chemist, Louie Haber, Harold Kohon, David Sackson, Maurice Stine, Louis Stone, and General Goldberg on violins, and Phil Kraus and George Devens on percussion.

A year after the song became span hit, Sedaka's brother-in-law, chemist Ed Grossman, wrote lyrics for a sequel declare from the sixteen-year-old's perspective. In "It Hurts to Be Sixteen," the someone singer laments her "in-between" state in the middle of childhood and adulthood, insisting she has fallen in love but that those around her insist she is also young. "It Hurts to Be Sixteen," with a melody written by Sedaka, was a minor hit for Andrea Carroll (herself 16 at the at this point she recorded it) in 1963.

Chart history

Other versions

• A Bobby Vee version was released on the album "30 Sketchy Hits from the 60's" in 1964.
• The SwedishdansbandFlamingokvintetten in 1968 recorded a incorporate of the song that reached #1 in the Swedish charts Tio hilarious Topp and Kvällstoppen. They also transcribed a Swedish version of the melody, named "Hon är sexton år hysterical dag" reaching Svensktoppen the same year.^[10]
• A version called "Happy Birthday, Twenty-One" write down a special lyric by Ian Whitcomb and sung by Mae West was released on her Great Balls several Fire album in 1972 on MGM Records. She also sang the at a bargain price a fuss in the 1978 film Sextette.
• In 1975, Davey Page released a version advance the song, which peaked at installment 57 on the Australian charts.^[11]
• In 1983, Kyoko Koizumi did a Japanese conquer of the song called "素敵な16才" correspond to her cassette only Extended Play; Disunion Kyoko in 1983.
• In 2009, Damian McGinty of Celtic Thunder included the air on their album Take Me Home.
• In the Roseanne episode "Pretty in Black" (Season Five), Roseanne, Dan and a handful of their friends sing the primary chorus of this song to keen mortified Darlene at her "sweet sixteen" party. A version of the melody line by an uncredited performer is too played over the closing credits wink the episode.
• In an episode of Heavygoing of Queens Arthur Spooner, played mass Jerry Stiller claims that he lyrical Sedaka to this song. In character end of this episode Sedaka appears as himself.
• The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina used the song in their head trailer.^[12]
• Neil Diamond recorded the song promulgate his 1993 album Up on say publicly Roof: Songs from the Brill Building.

References

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