HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET SIXTEEN NEIL SEDAKA FREE DOWNLOAD

By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Ask women who were at sixteen at the time of the song and you might be surprised how many had to put up with sexual, harassment, assault and rape with absolutely no one to report it too. I totally agree and I can name a bucket full of songs sung by dirty old men of that era and more recent. Sedaka only wrote the music and performed the song. To be honest, even then he looked like your Dad, and to hear such things coming from a man who looks older than he is only strengthens the implications of those crucial four lines. I heard this song just recently and am really really uncomfortable with the lyrics.

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Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen Lyrics

When you were six, he sings, I was your big brother. I loved esdaka song. You had to be there. The Police are just looking for a loophole in which to get away with it. The Complete Recordings, —66 Stairway to Heaven: Articles with hAudio microformats All stub articles. Notify me of new posts via email.

Notify me of new comments via email. This site uses cookies. At worst, sedaia was never meant to suggest anyone older than an older teenager preparing to send her knickers to Oxfam.

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Tagged Neil Sedaka Sounds of the Sixties. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Learn how your comment data is processed. Views Read Edit View history. In the era in question, sexual exploitation of girls, teenagers and bitthday women was pretty damn rife. I appreciate you defending a song you obviously love, but I hear what I hear….

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You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Ask women who were at sixteen at the time of the song and you might be surprised how many had to put up with sexual, harassment, assault and rape with absolutely no one to report it too.

Retrieved from " https: The narrator sings the song to a childhood friend of his upon her sixteenth sedakz, reminiscing about the ups and downs of their friendship thus far and declaring that now that she has grown from an awkward tomboy into a beautiful young lady, he wants her for his girlfriend.

This page was last edited on 24 Julyat What happens when a girl turns sixteen? Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Retrieved 25 May Any further comments on this post will be refused or deleted.

Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen

We go by the words in this occasional series, and the things they reveal, not necessarily intentionally. Sedaka only wrote the music and performed the song.

I totally agree and I can name a bucket full of songs sung by dirty old men of that era and more recent. The second verse, without ever being explicit about it, suggests that the singer is a relative contemporary of this innocent ibrthday lady.

You are commenting using your WordPress. Whoa, hold on a minute there, what the hell is this about?

This was one of several Sedaka recordings that employed the services of drummer Gary Chester. This guy has been waiting, and for quite some time it would appear, for this girl to have her sixteenth birthday.

You are commenting using your Google account. Italian release of "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen". None of that is specific: