{"id":5245,"date":"2012-01-31T19:44:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T03:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=5245"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:32:54","slug":"birthday-songs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=5245","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Back in the days before Facebook was popular, there was this service called Livejournal. When someone’s birthday came around, you would do a post wishing them “Happy Birthday”. I thought that was too simple, and wanted to sing a birthday song. Now, I absolutely detest “Happy Birthday to You”, preferring instead the song that was song in my childhood in Los Angeles: that is, the “Birthday Cake Polka” (i.e., “put another candle on your birthday cake<\/a>“) as sung by Sheriff John Rovack<\/a>, a children’s TV host on Channel 11. That quickly turned into a poll asking people their favorite birthday song, which was first posted in 2005.<\/p>\n

Over the years, Livejournal has declined in popularity; it has been eclipsed by Facebook. Yet I still give birthday songs. Without the poll, it has just devolved into singing the Birthday Cake Polka. Recently, I’ve decided to revive the goal of providing a song of your choice. Click here to see the song choices others have made<\/a>; comment on that page to make your song selection.<\/p>\n

What song can you pick. The following are the songs that the Sheriff knows:<\/p>\n