Happy Birthday (Pete Townshend album)

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Happy Birthday

Studio album by

Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane, Mike Da Costa, Ron Geesin

Released

February 1970

Recorded

Genre

Rock

Label

Universal Spiritual League/Eel Pie

Pete Townshend chronology

Happy Birthday
(1970)

I Am
(1972)

Happy Birthday is a collaboration album by Pete Townshend, the guitarist for The Who and friends, including Ronnie Lane. It was 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 25 February) 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 Pete 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).^[1] Several songs from Happy Birthday and I Am reappeared in the 1972 Pete Townshend's solo album Who Came First.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Artist
1.	"Content" (words by Maud Kennedy)	Pete Townshend
2.	"Evolution" (words and music by Ronnie Lane)	Townshend with Ronnie Lane
3.	"Day of Silence" (words and music by Townshend)	Townshend
4.	"Alan Cohen Speaks" (Sitar accompaniment by Vytas Serelis)	Meher Baba's Universal Players
5.	"Mary Jane" (words by Michael Westlake, music by Townshend)	Townshend
6.	"Alan Cohen Speaks" (words by Meher Baba)	Meher Baba's Universal Players
7.	"The Seeker" (version, words and music by Townshend)	Townshend

Side two
No.	Title	Artist
8.	"Begin the Beguine" (words and music by Cole Porter)	Townshend
9.	"With a Smile Up His Nose They Entered" (music by Ron Geesin)	Ron Geesin
10.	"The Love Man" (words and music by Townshend)	Townshend
11.	"Meditation" (words by Mike Da Costa)	Mike Da Costa

References

^ "Pete Townshend Albums". The Who. RWhiteFang. Retrieved 26 March 2009.

External links

v t e Pete Townshend
Discography
Studio albums	Who Came First Rough Mix (w/ Ronnie Lane) Empty Glass All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes White City: A Novel The Iron Man: A Musical Psychoderelict
Live albums	Deep End Live! (w/ Deep End) A Benefit for Maryville Academy Live: The Empire Live: Sadler's Wells Live: The Fillmore The Oceanic Concerts (w/ Raphael Rudd) Live: La Jolla Playhouse 2001 Pete Townshend Live BAM 1993 Live: Brixton Academy '85
Compilations	Scoop Another Scoop The Best of Pete Townshend Scoop 3 Scooped Jai Baba Lifehouse Chronicles Lifehouse Elements Anthology Truancy: The Very Best of Pete Townshend
Singles	"Rough Boys" "Let My Love Open the Door" "A Little Is Enough" "Keep On Working" "Face Dances, Pt. 2" "Face the Face" "Give Blood" "English Boy"
Other songs	"Somebody Saved Me" "Slit Skirts" "White City Fighting" "Fire"
DVDs	Lifehouse Chronicles (video) Live In New York Feat. Psychoderelict O' Parvardigar
Related articles	Peter Meaden The Who Deep End Happy Birthday I Am With Love O' Parvardigar Tommy (1975 film) The Who's Tommy Tommy (soundtrack) Quadrophenia (film) Horse's Neck The Boy Who Heard Music The Lifehouse Method Who I Am Classic Quadrophenia Eel Pie Publishing Eel Pie Studios Double O Cliff Townshend Emma Townshend Simon Townshend The Wick Ashdown House, Oxfordshire The Boathouse, Twickenham Chapel House, Twickenham

v t e Meher Baba
Publications	God Speaks (1955 book) You Alone Exist (1962 poem) God in a Pill? (1966 pamphlet)
Terms and concepts	Perfect Master Mast Mandali
Pilgrimage sites	Meherabad Meher Spiritual Center Sufism Reoriented Sanctuary
Associated figures	Norina Matchabelli Francis Brabazon Charles Purdom Quentin Tod Meredith Starr Margaret Mayo Tom Hopkinson
Encountered masters	Hazrat Babajan Upasni Maharaj Sai Baba of Shirdi Tajuddin Baba Narayan Maharaj
Albums	"Don't Worry, Be Happy" Happy Birthday (1970 album) I Am (1972 album) With Love (1976 album) O' Parvardigar (2001 album)
Filmography	Meher Baba Newsreel Footage (1932) The Awakener (1969) God In Human Form (2003) The Theme of Creation (2005) Bhau Kalchuri: Meher Baba's Lion (2006) Nema aviona za Zagreb (2012)