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"Happy Holiday" (sometimes performed as "Happy Holidays") is a popular song composed by Irving Berlin during 1942.
The song was first performed by Bing Crosby for the 1942 film Holiday Inn. While it is often regarded as a Christmas song, in the movie it is performed on New Year's Eve, and expresses a wish for the listener to enjoy "happy holidays" throughout the entire year. The titular phrase is now most commonly associated with inclusive holiday greetings for the period around Christmas and the New Year.
The song has been recorded by numerous artists over the years, including Perry Como, Percy Faith, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Jackie Gleason, Peggy Lee, Barry Manilow (in a medley with "White Christmas"), Jo Stafford, and Andy Williams (in a medley with Kay Thompson's composition "The Holiday Season").
This Song was also featured on the Episode 9 of The Simpsons serie XVIII ("Kill Gil, Volumes I & II").
Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams (born December 3, 1927) is an American singer who has recorded 18 Gold- and three Platinum-certified albums. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a TV variety show, from 1962 to 1971, as well as numerous television specials, and owns the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri named after the song "Moon River", with which he is closely identified.
Williams was born in Wall Lake, Iowa, the son of Jay Emerson and Florence (née Finley) Williams. He first performed in a children's choir at the local Presbyterian church. Williams and his three older brothers Bob, Don, and Dick formed the Williams Brothers quartet in late 1938, and they performed on radio in the Midwest, first at WHO in Des Moines, Iowa, and later at WLS in Chicago and WLW in Cincinnati. Williams graduated from Western Hills High School in Cincinnati and his brother was engaged to Gene Ingram's car-pool partner, Peggy. The Williams Brothers appeared with Bing Crosby on the hit record "Swinging on a Star" (1944). They appeared in 4 musical films: Janie (1944), Kansas City Kitty (1944), Something in the Wind (1947) and Ladies' Man (1947). This led to a nightclub act with entertainer Kay Thompson from 1947 to 1951.
Actors: John Francis Dillon (director), Richard Carlyle (actor), George Cooper (actor), Joseph W. Girard (actor), Ben Hendricks Jr. (actor), Arthur Stone (actor), Johnnie Walker (actor), Fred Warren (actor), Chief Yowlachie (actor), Robert North (producer), David Belasco (writer), Waldemar Young (writer), Arthur Housman (actor), J. Farrell MacDonald (actor), Ann Harding (actress),
Genres: Western,[Hook: Emanny]
Everyday's the same to me
Seven days in every week
Some look forward to it, but I don't change
Just for the holiday
You can have your Christmas tree
Go get drunk on New Years Eve
Some look forward to it, but I don't change
Cuz everyday's a Holiday
Cuz everyday's a holiday [2x]
[Verse 1: Joe]
If they ain't tell me tomorrow was my birthday, I would never know
Understand I'm kinda bad with dates
I don't need a party but a nigga need cake
I got too much on my plate to celebrate
Whole family unemployed so income now a void
Foot in everybody's bills so naturally im annoyed
It's like the year kinda flew by
And like a fool I, sat back and scrutinized
I'm high beaming on a dark road
All my goals now ashes on charcoal
I spark stoves, disregard cars
just cause my heart's cold, carrying cargo
No offense, I don't need a phone call or present
Honestly I don't want none of y'all present, look
I won't pretend like my everyday struggles gone away
see i'ma treat this like any normal day
[Hook: Emanny]
Everyday's the same to me
Seven days in every week
Some look forward to it, but I don't change
Just on the holiday
You can have your Christmas tree
Go get drunk on New Years Eve
Some look forward to it, but I don't change
Cuz everyday's a Holiday
[Verse 2]
If they aint tell me tomorrow was Halloween, i'd have never known
I never been the type to keep up with dates, so while
Everybody is puttin they mask on
Nigga I rock mine all year
Just to avoid stares
To come across as like nigga who cares, so to my peers
I could look like i'm really sincere
Yeah, everything's not what it appears
I fear being rare my costumes aware
I swear, I wont take it off like nair
Its weird, even when i take it off shits near
To some my outfit is sheer, so out of spite they jeer
Cuz they know I see 'em all as mere
Don't love yall enough to let u see me bare
Let you see how he's impaired
Nah, i'm not there
We tend to run from anything weird
At least on halloween y'all will stay right there.....
[Hook]
[Verse 3]
If I didn't read it was Christmas, I'da never known
Maybe I'm wrong? I don't give a fuck about dates
So while everybody's unwrapping gifts, im trying to capitalize off mine
Just to get some shine
Or to recline while im still in my prime
Too many times when the date came, I ain't have a dime
So I look at my friends with envy
Like for some reason them getting gifts would offend me
Like they home was perfect, mine felt empty
They say that it's the thought that counts, I had plenty
Like why on thanksgiving my family would never visit?
Even when they did it always seem so scripted
Like they was forced too
Like small talk would resolve the 364 days they aint call you
I should act like ya'll someone I'm close to
Holidays don't make me social!
[Hook]