(wish I knew where I found this!)
Since almost the beginning of this show, I've played birthday songs on my wife's birthday. Except when she was my girlfriend. & I think I missed a year or two.
One of the things I wish I could do is play the same songs every year. I just can't. According to my web site, I've done 18 of these shows - in twenty years! (I missed 2003 & 2005 for some reason.)
The first birthday show, she chose all the music. If ot had continued that way, I would have been playing the same songs over & over. Again, it's not something I could bring myself to do. So on the second show (in 2004), I started playing birthday songs.
My rule (I always have a dumb rule) was that I would never play the same recording twice. I would play covers of songs - like the Beatles' "Birthday," which has many covers - or perhaps live versions of some songs - but you wouldn't hear the same recording again. I only broke that rule once, when I did my first Portland birthday show in 2019. I made it a "best of." I was feeling lazy.
Here's a count, then, probably not accurate, of the birthday songs I've play since 2004: 425.
That number doesn't include the instrumentals I talked over. & like I said, I have played different versions of some songs.
It's getting harder each year, no lie. There aren't enough birthday songs that I like released every year. & yeah, that's the thing - it has to be a song I like. I know there are more birthday songs out there that can fill a birthday show. But I have to like them. The nice thing about making a radio show on a community radio station is that you get to pick what you play. & why would I play anything I didn't like?
So today I've spent the day digging around for birthday songs I've never played & that I like. What I've found will be on the air tomorrow night.
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