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3 unusual facts about Happy Birthday


Happy Birthday, Mr. Putin!

The calendar features twelve semi-nude female students of journalism faculty at the Moscow State University (MSU), each for every month, with a short message.

The alternative version features the following questions: "When will they free Mikhail Khodorkovsky?", "OK with fools, but what about roads?" (referring to Russian saying "There are two troubles in Russia: the fools and the roads"), "How inflation will affect the bribes?", "Freedom of assembly always and everywhere?", "Who killed Anna Politkovskaya?" and "When the next terrorist incident occurs"?

Matthew Shultz

Shultz cites bands such as the Pixies as influential on his vocal style, explaining that he discovered them alongside other punk bands while living in England during the recording of Thank You, Happy Birthday.


David Marshall Grant

Grant went on to play roles in various television shows and movies, including Happy Birthday, Gemini, Legs, Labor of Love, CSI: Miami, Law & Order, Criminal Minds, and Alias.

Hotter than July

The country-tinged "I Ain't Gonna Stand for It" (U.S. #11; R&B #2), the ballad "Lately" (U.S. #64) and the upbeat "Happy Birthday" were other notable successes from the album.

Thanks for the Memory

Marilyn Monroe's performance of "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1962 was followed by an additional verse sung to the tune of "Thanks for the Memory": "Thanks, Mr. President/For all the things you've done/The battles that you've won/The way you deal with U.S. Steel/And our problems by the ton/We thank you so much."

Who Came First

Townshend had already participated with other artists on two previous albums in tribute to his Avatar Meher Baba, Happy Birthday and I Am.


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Adriaan Luteijn

His Happy, Happy Birthday Baby celebrates the 75th birthday of Hans van Manen.

Age progression

In the book "Happy Birthday, Dear Amy" by Marilyn Kaye, a 13 year old girl grows into a 25 year old overnight.

Araw Mo

Nina is seen in the middle, happily screaming "happy birthday" to him, while holding a Goldilocks black forest cake.

Later, Nina and his friends were seen coming out of an elevator, greeting him a "happy birthday", with a Goldilocks cake.

Australians for Constitutional Monarchy

In the end, the attendees in the stadium joined Dame Kiri Te Kanawa in singing "Happy Birthday" as well as eight bars of the Royal Anthem.

Cameron Michael Parkes

Parkes contributed both music and lyrics to the musicals Happy Birthday, Mr. President (about Marilyn Monroe) and Tanzi. The latter received the Drama-Logue Award for best musical of the 1984 Season.

Gomenasai

t.A.T.u. have accompanied Flipsyde while promoting Flipsyde's single and have performed together on Top of the Pops, TRL and The Dome in Germany, though t.A.T.u. did not make an appearance in Flipsyde's "Happy Birthday" music video.

Happy Happy Birthday to Me Singles Club: June

Happy Happy Birthday to Me Singles Club: June is a single released by the Black Swan Network in 2001

It's a Good Life

Dan gets drunk and begins demanding that they sing, first "Happy Birthday" and then "You Are My Sunshine".

Régis Campo

In November 2003, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the singer Dame Felicity Lott performed Happy Birthday for soprano and orchestra with the Ensemble orchestral de Paris directed by John Nelson.

The Legend of Frosty the Snowman

Narrated and sung by Burt Reynolds, with veteran actor/voice artist Bill Fagerbakke in the role of Frosty, this new chapter in the saga revisits Frosty many years after he shouts out his signature phrase “Happy Birthday!”, for the first time when he appears in a little town where magic, silliness, and nonsense of all kinds are strictly against the rules.