![]() So that’s my little birthday stalking story. Hopefully, since this woman’s blog is devoted to family, she’ll understand how much this music means to me. I don’t know if she’ll read my email or not, but I figured it was worth a try. I tried to downplay my musical desperation. I tried to phrase my email as un-creepily as possible. That’s why I clicked around until I found this woman’s contact information and emailed her with a plea for song information–artist, name of song, album title, anything. However, I haven’t given up hope of finding my own personal copy. Now, of course, I could just play this slideshow full of strangers whenever I want to celebrate a birthday with this song. I was so excited to hear this music that I actually played it several times and even held the phone to my computer so my grandma could listen. I felt a little, well, stalker-y as I watched her relative’s childhood flash on my computer screen. The slideshow’s background music was–you guessed it–the song I’d been searching for.Īlthough this woman’s blog was public, I assume that it is intended for her and her family. This woman devoted a blog post to a relative’s birthday and included a lovely slideshow of mostly black and white photographs that highlighted his early years. I found a woman’s ancestral blog, a blog dedicated to her genealogical research and family tree. Then, by some magical combination of search terms and with some lucky clicking, I found it. The very fact that this song didn’t seem to exist according to the internet–an impossibility, since everything can be found online–turned this whim of a hunt into an obsession. This all made for some good entertainment and hours of distraction, but where-oh-where was MY birthday song? I found dozens of other people who were also searching for this song, but it appeared that no one had been successful. And of course, who can forget Marilyn Monroe’s breathy performance? Then there was a great musical birthday moment from Boy Meets World, a diddy by The Three Stooges, and Burt and Ernie’s celebration for the letter U. ![]() I found the Beatles’ Birthday Song, a tribute by Elvis, and then this odd version. There is a lot of birthday music on Youtube. I thought maybe I’d strike gold with Youtube. I tried quotations marks around the words, the words by themselves. I searched each individual line of lyrics. I tried different variations of the lyrics. ![]() Over the course of several more days, I logged hours and hours of internet searching. (I feel ya brother!) The other two were completely unrelated. One led to someone who was also searching for this song, for the same sentimental reasons. I picked a portion of the lyrics and plugged them into the search engine. I’m a child of the internet age and I trust the mysterious Web to answer all my questions. Nobody knew the title of the song, but everyone guessed it was some variant of “the Happy Birthday Song.” I didn’t despair, however, because I knew most of the lyrics and I imagined I could just type them into Google and the song would pop out. ![]() Nobody remembered who sang the song, or what the album was called. My little branch of the family has since lost this precious tape. My grandma had the record for a long time and somewhere a long the line, somebody transferred the song to a cassette tape. Now, since several people in my family are slightly tone-deaf (okay, very tone-deaf–sorry Grandma), we always played the actual recorded version of this song, too. Now hurry and cut the cake, we can hardly waitĪs you open your gifts we’ll sing once more to youuuuu Oh look, your friends are waiting here for you! The lyrics go like this:Īnd you’re growing up the way we want you to My family has a special Happy Birthday song that we’ve always sung to each other on birthdays. I’ve always been grateful for my grandma’s creative idea, and I know it’s something that I will do when I have kids of my own. When you flip through, you can watch me go from a baby that needed propping up to a 5’10 gal who blocks the chair. My grandma used to take a picture of me sitting in her rocking chair every year on my birthday. Clearly, this will be a magical, epic year.Ī lot of people have certain birthday traditions that help make their special day memorable–whether it’s a favorite meal, a standing date with friends, or birthday margaritas. It’s my birthday today! Yipee! Wahoo! Commence applause, joyful cheering, and prayerful thanks for my existence! It’s the 23rd, I’m turning 23, and it’s a Tuesday, which is the same day of the week I was born on 23 years ago. ![]()
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