Happy Birthday, now your one year older. Happy Birthday, now your one year older. Happy Birthday, your life still isn't over. Happy Birthday, you did not accomplish much. But you didn't die this year i guess that's good enough. So lets drink to your fading health, and hope you don't remind yourself.
Contents.Background The song, one of many of Wonder's songs to feature the use of a, features Wonder lamenting the fact that anyone would oppose the idea of a Dr. King holiday, where 'peace is celebrated throughout the world' and singing to King in the chorus, 'Happy birthday to you'. The holiday, he proposes, would facilitate the realization of Dr. King's dreams of and 'love and unity for all of 's children'.Wonder used the song to popularize the campaign, and continued his fight for the holiday, holding the Rally for Peace Press Conference in 1981. Approved the creation of the holiday, signing it into existence on November 2, 1983. The first official, held the third Monday in January of each year, was held on January 20, 1986, and was commemorated with a large-scale concert, where Stevie Wonder was the headlining performer.Although the single failed to reach the, due to it not being released as a U.S. Single; it charted on the R&B chart at No.70and it became one of Wonder's biggest hits in the UK, reaching No.2 in the charts in August 1981.
When Wonder performed the song at Nelson Mandela Day at on July 19, 2009, he slightly changed the lyrics, 'Thanks to Mandela and Martin Luther King!' In that verse.Wonder also performed this song at the in for the.
Personnel. Stevie Wonder - Vocals, Synthesizer, Drums, Background Vocals, Keyboards, Bass MelodeonReferences.