![]() Now, I am sure that the song they sing today at the Olive Garden is probably different from this one. Happy Birthday Aunty (Latin Jazz Version). Happy Birthday Aunty Have a marvellous day. Give Aunty the magical birthday that they deserve. Our songs are a perfect accompaniment to your birthday gift. I must have sang this 200 times while I worked there. Nothing brings joy like a Sing Me Happy Birthday song. ![]() Yeah – it really doesn’t make much sense, does it? Unfortunately, it’s seared into my brain like my address or phone number. (Sing while clapping loudly with group of degraded waiters and acting excited or else.) So, they put their Marketing Genius Hats on and came up with this ditty: I guess the geniuses at Olive Garden Corporate Headquarters must have thought that no chain restaurant would be complete without the requisite birthday song. ![]() This was way back when Bennigan’s was hip and cool, so other chains began to follow suit. Then in the 80s when I was in college, they started doing the group birthday song at Bennigan’s. This probably has something to do with why I don’t like ice cream. I was terrified of sparklers for the longest time and having one in my face for 5 minutes wasn’t exactly my cup of tea. Frankly, it used to scare the hell out of me when I was small. They’d bring out some ginormous ice cream confection with a bunch of sparklers all over it and sing you a silly song for your birthday. The first place I really remember them singing you a birthday song was the Farrel’s Ice Cream when I was a kid. Nothing was more degrading than having to round up your fellow depressed waiters and beg them to help you sing a lame song to some lame customers that 90% of the time just want the free cake and don’t even really have a birthday. Do they still even do that any more? For the sake of anyone working there today I sincerely hope not. ![]()
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