I love birthdays. According to some recent survey, birthdays are the favorite holiday of this generation, and I can tell you why: they always include great food.
Well, that’s why I like birthdays.
And that’s why I love December– we have two major birthday celebrations, and by major, I mean that the births we celebrate are those of significant enough individuals (and by that I mean literally the most significant individuals that ever walked the face of this earth) that the food is always incredible.
We get to have Joseph Smith’s party on the 23rd, and Jesus’s on the 25th. That’s pretty awesome.
But they don’t even get sung to! So this is a little arrangement I cooked up for them, but asked the Mo Tab and Gladys Knight and the audience and everyone to sing it to President Hinckley, because he’s pretty awesome too. Please notice that this is probably one of the finest arrangements of this [horribly tedious, eternally flat, painfully dragging, uncomfortable] song you’ve ever heard. I don’t love the Sopranos ending on the dominant, but I really do love the orchestra part, especially the cymbals. And of course I LOVE that he waves his cane at the end.