Here are some songs to celebrate someone’s birthday:
- Be Proud of the Gray in Your Hair
- Dave Evans “Goin’ Round This World” (Rebel)
- Scott Anderson “Tales from the Swamp” (no label)
- Happy Birthday to You
- Bill Monroe “Live” (Copper Creek). On this CD, Bill sings Happy Birthday to someone in the crowd named Becky … but you could edit this and use the last line with applause as a cool bumper after a happy birthday wish.
- Forever Young
- Fragment “One of these Days” (no label)
- Lindley Creek “Freedom, Love and the Open Road” (Pinecastle)
- Daniel Grindstaff (with Paul Brewster and Dolly Parton) “Heroes and Friends” (Bonfire)
- Next Sunday Darlin’ Is My Birthday
- The Stanley Brothers “The Early Years 1958-1961” Disc 2 (Starday/King)
- The Cumberland Highlanders “Cumberland Mountain Home” (Black Mountain) Also on Prime Cuts Vol 53
- The Blinky Moon Boys “Moonlight Theatre@ (Hay Holler)
- Also recorded by Jim Eanes, Hank Willams, The Gillis Brothers, others.
- My Yesterday’s Look Better Every Day
- The Gibson Brothers “Another Night of Waiting” (Hay Holler)
- Never Too Old
- Damian Muller “You’ve Still Got It” (Thornrose Music)
- Old and Gray
- Hickory Hill “The First Fifteen Years” (Turquoise)
- The Big Five-0
- DooDoo Wah “For Amusement Only” (no label)
- Time (You’re No Friend to Me)
- Lou Reid and Carolina “Time” (Rebel)
- Trip Around the Sun
- Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Dierks Bentley “I Built a World” (Sugar Petunia)
- Too Old to Cut the Mustard
- The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band “Barnyard Frolic” (RME)
- When I’m Sixty-four
- David Grisman-John Hartford-Mike Seeger “Retrograss” (Acoustic Disc)
- Where We’ll Never Grow Old
- The McPeak Brothers “Pathway to Heaven” (Copper Creek)
- New Tradition “Cradle, Cross, Crown” (Mountain Home)