Happy Birthday (Merry Christmas and Happy New Year)

Happy Birthday (Merry Christmas and Happy New Year) is a song that was written by Ron Kitson, published by Sure-Fire Music, and recorded by Loretta Lynn in the Fall of 1964 and released before Christmas of that year by Decca Records on a 45 RPM single.

It was not only an instant Country hit, but up until Christmas was receiving considerable air play on "Pop-Rock" stations on the east and west American coasts and was a "Pick Hit of the Week" on WWDC, Washington, DC. It continued up the Country Charts well into the Spring of 1965 reaching #3 on the Billboard Country Charts. Happy Birthday Spent 15 weeks in the top ten and received a BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) award in 1965.

The song was included on the Loretta Lynn LP "Songs From My Heart" in 1964 and later on the Decca LP "Loretta Lynn's Greatest Hits" which was duplicated also on CD. According to Kitson, "I first sang the song to Loretta back stage at the "Horse Shoe" night club where she was appearing in Toronto, Ontario and she wanted a tape of it which she took back to Nashville where she recorded it a few weeks later. She first performed it on the Grand Ole Opry with Connie Smith providing harmony during the DJ Convention in Nashville in October 1964."

Loretta Lynn singles

1960s

1960	"I'm a Honky Tonk Girl"

1962	"Success"

1963	"The Other Woman" "Before I'm Over You"

1964	"Wine, Women and Song" "Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be" (with Ernest Tubb) "Happy Birthday"

1965	"Blue Kentucky Girl" "The Home You're Tearing Down"

1966	"Dear Uncle Sam" "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)" "Don't Come Home A'Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)]"

1967	"If You're Not Gone Too Long" "What Kind of a Girl (Do You Think I Am)"

1968	"Fist City" "You've Just Stepped In (From Stepping Out on Me)" "Your Squaw Is on the Warpath"

1969	"Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)" "Who's Gonna Take the Garbage Out" (with Ernest Tubb) "To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man)" "Wings Upon Your Horns"

1970s

1970	"I Know How" "You Wanna Give Me a Lift" "Coal Miner's Daughter"

1971	"I Wanna Be Free" "You're Lookin' at Country" "One's on the Way"

1972	"Here I Am Again" "Rated "X""

1973	"Love Is the Foundation" "Hey Loretta"

1974	"They Don't Make 'em Like My Daddy" "Trouble in Paradise"

1975	"The Pill" "Home" "When the Tingle Becomes a Chill"

1976	"Red, White and Blue" "Somebody Somewhere (Don't Know What He's Missin' Tonight)"

1977	"She's Got You" "Why Can't He Be You" "Out of My Head and Back in My Bed"

1978	"Spring Fever" "We've Come a Long Way Baby"

1979	"I Can't Feel You Anymore" "I've Got a Picture of Us on My Mind"

1980s

1980	"Pregnant Again" "Naked in the Rain" "Cheatin' on a Cheater"

1981	"Somebody Led Me Away"

1982	"I Lie" "Making Love from Memory"

1985	"Heart Don't Do This to Me"

1990s

1993	"Silver Threads and Golden Needles" (with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette)

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