70th birthday
At seventy, three generations tell stories about them. Each one has a different favorite.
A 70th birthday song from the people who love them
By seventy, the stories about someone are told by three generations. A seventieth birthday song gathers the best of them, sung clearly and not too fast, so the birthday person hears every word.
Hear the second a name lands
Niamh, my sweet girl, you are eighteen today.
You wrote“Learned to swim in the cold lake at Grandpa's house.”
The song singsI still see you splashing in the cold lake at Grandpa's house.
From a real song made here: “Your Gentle Way”, for Niamh, from what her mum typed.
The moment you give it
After the cake, the grandchildren play it from a tablet. The verses come from three generations: a childhood story, a parenting story, a grandparent story. They laugh at the first one and go quiet at the last.
Seventieth, the long table
Start with one memory
Pick a question. The form opens with your first line already started.
A song for an older parent
Our Father's Day country sample shows the slower, clear style most seventieth songs use.
What you get for $12.99
You hear it first, free. You pay once, only if you keep it.
- Free preview
- The first 60 seconds, ready in about two minutes after you enter your email. No card.
- The song
- The full song, about two minutes long, as an MP3 to download and keep.
- Lyrics
- Every line is on the preview page before you pay. Unlocking adds the lyric sheet, to print or save as a PDF.
- Their link
- A private link that plays the whole song without an account, with your name and a short note. Switch it off any time.
- Photo video
- Free: a vertical 9:16 photo video of your photos with the lyrics on screen, plus 15- and 30-second cuts. Made in your browser.
- The name
- Unusual name? Type how to say it (SEER-sha for Saoirse) and the singer says it that way.
- Re-record
- One free re-record per song: change a line, the style or the voice and record it again.
- Name sung wrong?
- After you pay, a free remake with the name fixed, once per song.
- Languages
- Sung in English, German, French, Spanish or Japanese.
- Teaser
- Before you pay, a 15-second teaser link that tells them a song is on its way.
- For this song
- Posting it? The 15-second cut fits an Instagram story and the 30-second cut a Reel, with the lyrics already on screen.
- Want a nudge next year? Opt in and we email you three weeks and one week before the date.
Stories worth collecting
- The car, the boat or the garden they have looked after for years.
- Where they grew up, and a story from that place they still tell.
- The work they were proud of.
- The way they show love: the cooking, the fixing, the phone calls.
- The grandchildren and what they call them.
- A saying everyone in the family can recite.
- Something they do now that surprised everyone.
For example
A granddaughter writing for her grandpa's seventieth might type:
- Grandpa Frank grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin and still wakes at dawn.
- He taught every grandkid to play cribbage and still never lets anyone win.
- At 68 he learned to make sourdough and now brings a loaf to every visit.
Making it easy to hear
- Ask the youngest grandchild to say the birthday person's name right before you press play.
- Choose country, piano ballad or acoustic pop, and say in your lines you want a slow song.
- Play it through a speaker close to them, not from a phone across a crowded room.
- Give them a copy they can replay; a family member can put the MP3 on their phone or a small speaker by their favorite chair.
Who usually sends a seventieth song
- Grown children, as the centerpiece of the family dinner.
- Grandchildren, often with help from a parent typing the brief.
- A husband or wife, as a private gift before the guests arrive.
- Old friends, who can tell the stories the family has never heard.
More song ideas
Questions
Seventy years, told by everyone who loves them.
Type their first name and the story the whole family repeats.