"Birthday" in Top 30 music (1951-2015)

Plenty of birthday stuff showing up on my Facebook feed this week, prompting me to finally do a search for the word "birthday" in my music collections. This music video essay draws from Billboard's year-end Top 30 charts from 1951-2015. Besides the phrase "Happy Birthday", other "birthday" phrases appearing in the collection are "birthday cakes", "birthday suits", and "birthday surprise." The videos are in chronological order before deviating from the Billboard charts for a couple of treats at the end.

Photos of M. Lanza, Ann Blyth, and champion ice skaters Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov skating while Lanza sings, combine the perfection of Mario's voice with the perfection of Gordeeva and Grinkov's ice skating. Mario Lanza sings "Loveliest Night of the Year" so very beautifully, he touches your heart.
The Crests were a New York R&B doo-wop group in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Their most popular song, "Sixteen Candles," rose to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1959, selling over one million copies, earning a gold disc.
Hollywood A Go Go - 1965 --------------------------- It's My Party Lesley Gore --- Chorus: It's my party and i'll cry if i want to Cry if i want to Cry if i want to You would cry too if it's happened to you Nobody knows where my Johnny has gone
Music video by Bon Jovi performing I'll Be There For You. (C) 1988 The Island Def Jam Music Group
I do not own the music. It belongs to WMG
Music video by OutKast performing Ms. Jackson. (C) 2000 LaFace Records LLC
Music video by 50 Cent performing In Da Club.
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Music video by Kanye West performing Gold Digger. (C) 2005 Roc-A-Fella Records, LLC
Watch the new music video "Low" by Flo Rida feat T-Pain from the Step Up 2 The Streets original soundtrack. STEP UP 2 THE STREETS hits theaters on February 14, 2008. Be sure to check out the official page: http://www.myspace.com/StepUpMovie
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Music video by Drake performing Take Care. (C) 2012 Cash Money Records Inc.
Marilyn Monroe sings Happy Birthday to the President.
"Birthday" is a song written by John Lennon--Paul McCartney and performed by The Beatles on their 1968 double album ...The Beatles .....commonly known as "The White Album" Preformed here live by former BEATLE.....Sir Paul McCartney With Rusty Anderson - Lead Guitar Abe Laboriel Jr.
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