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)