Happy Birthday (Pete Townshend album)

Happy Birthday is a collaboration album by Pete Townshend and friends including Ronnie Lane, 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 February 25) 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 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 Townshend solo album Who Came First.

Track listing

Words and music by Pete Townshend, except where noted.

Side one

1. "Content" (Poem by Maud Kennedy, music by Townshend)
2. "Evolution" (Ronnie Lane)
3. "Day of Silence"
4. "Allan Cohen Speaks" (Sitar accompliment Vytas Serelis)
5. "Mary Jane"
6. "Allan Cohen Speaks" (Words by Meher Baba)
7. "The Seeker" (Demo)
8. "Meditation" (Written and performed by Mike Da Costa)

Side two

1. "Begin the Beguine" (By Cole Porter, sung by Townshend)
2. "With a Smile Up His Nose They Entered" (Instrumental by Ron Geesin)
3. "The Love Man"

References

External links

• Lyrics
• Pete Townshend solo album index
• Meher Baba Tribute Albums by Pete Townshend