Happy Birthday (1970 album)

Infobox Album | Name = Happy Birthday
Type = Album
Artist = Pete Townshend
Ronnie Lane


Released = 1970
Recorded = UK
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = Universal Spiritual League/Eel Pie
Producer = Pete Townshend
Reviews = * [http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Townshend,_Pete/Discography/album/P5678/R537518/ Starpulse] Rating|4|5
Last album =
This album = "Happy Birthday"
Next album = "I Am" (1972)

"Happy Birthday" is a collaboration album by Pete Townshend and friends including Ronnie Lane, pressed and released in 1970 by Universal Spiritual League. The album was originally released in February, 1970 (in commemoration of Meher Baba's birthday on February 25) as the first in a series of tribute albums dedicated to Pete Townshend's spiritual mentor Meher Baba. Only about 2,500 copies were pressed in the original 1970 issue. The album was reissued in similar numbers in 1977. Later albums by Townshend and friends dedicated to Meher Baba included "I Am", "With Love", and "Avatar" (a compilation of the previous three albums, later released as "Jai Baba") [http://www.thewho.info/PTAlbums.htm] . Several songs from "Happy Birthday" and "I Am" reappeared in the 1972 Townshend solo album "Who Came First".

Track listing

:"Words and music by Pete Townshend, except where noted."

ide one

# Content (poem by Maud Kennedy, music by Pete Townshend)
# Evolution (Ronnie Lane)
# Day Of Silence
# Allan Cohen Speaks (sitar accompliment Vytas Serelis)
# Mary Jane
# Allan Cohen Speaks (words by Meher Baba)
# The Seeker (demo)
# Meditation (written and performed by Mike Da Costa)

ide two

# Begin the Beguine (by Cole Porter, sung by Pete Townshend)
# With a Smile Up His Nose They Entered (instrumental by Ron Geesin)
# The Love Man

External links

* [http://www.wdkeller.com/index31.htm Lyrics]
* [http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/ptalbum.htm Pete Townshend solo album index]
* [http://www.thewho.info/PTAlbums.htm Meher Baba Tribute Albums by Pete Townshend]