It's Johnny's Birthday

Today, of course, would have been JOHN LENNON's 66th birthday. I'm sure there's lots of Lennon material being posted around the blogs today, so here are just a few odd but birthday-appropriate items.





We'll start things off with GEORGE HARRISON from 1970 with "It's Johnny's Birthday", recorded for John's 30th birthday and sourced from the long out-of-print original UK pressing of the "All Things Must Pass" CD:

IT"S JOHNNY'S BIRTHDAY

Then we have what's known as "Let's Have A Party". Recorded on October 9, 1971, John and Yoko and a roomful of friends including RINGO STARR, PHIL SPECTOR, and others celebrate John's 31st birthday with a birthday party sing-a-long. Its a single 43-minute file, about 12MB. Songs include "What'd I Say", "Yellow Submarine", "Goodnight Irene", "Tandoori Chicken", "Maybe Baby", "Crippled Inside", "Give Peace A Chance", "Happy Birthday", and a whole lot more:

LETS HAVE A PARTY (43-MINUTE AUDIO)

And there's also a video from the party, basically a 2-minute 40-second home movie with an accompanying audio track excerpted from the longer audio tape:

LETS HAVE A PARTY - (2-MINUTE - 40-SECOND VIDEO)

And we finish off with PAUL MCCARTNEY leading a live-in-concert "Happy Birthday" sing-a-long from October 9, 2005 for what would have been John's 65th birthday:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - PAUL MCCARTNEY

Happy birthday John!