There’s no doubt, that the most famous version of Happy Birthday is sung by Marilyn Monroe. She performed this famous song at JFK’s 45^th birthday with over 15,000 people celebrating the occasion. This sexy M.Monroe version gave me an idea. I’m not going to perform the song as she did it (she would turn around twice in her grave), because I would just give “tribute” a bad name. But I’m going to exploit her idea.

I was practicing singing on pitch last week, but I didn’t have the time to make a mp3-track of the pitches for my daily trips to work. So instead I practiced a simple song, Happy Birthday, in my car. I was singing the song I don’t know how many times, but suddenly I realised something.

Have you heard about a band called Beatallica? They’re like Metallica and Beatles combined. There’s a lot of information about this band in the net, but the point I like to make here is the way the singer emulates James Hetfield (he does it very well). Listen for example “A Garage Dayz Nite” and you’ll know what I’m talking about.

So, my idea is to sing Happy Birthday in different styles. First of all, it’s lots of fun. Second, its good practice. Third, I wanna do it. Results will follow…