Happy Birthday :: Altered Images from the album, Happy Birthday Happy Birthday is a song by the Scottish New Wave band Altered Images released as a single from their 1981 album Happy Birthday. The song entered the UK charts on September 26, 1981, and peaked at # 2 on October 31 of the same year (Halloween!), holding that position for three weeks. The song appeared in the John Hughes 1984 movie Sixteen Candles. Happy Birthday has been covered by The Ting Tings, for the children’s television show Yo Gabba Gabba! in 2008, and by The Wedding Present, for their 1993 compilation album John Peel Sessions 1987-1990, as well as by Thomas Fagerlund (The … Continue reading If they were me, and I was you :: VOTD