Congratulations and Celebrations is a song performed by Cliff Richard. It was written by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter. The song had a glorious run during its initial release years, climbing to the number-one spot in many countries worldwide.
Originally, the song was not called Congratulations And Celebrations; while writing the lyrics, Phil Coulter thought of naming the song "I Think I Love You," but the lyrics did not match up with the tone of the music he wanted as a composition. As a result, he consulted Bill Martin, the same individual who helped him write the lyrics for "Puppet On A String." he joined in with Phil Coulter and made a few changes to call it "Congratulations."
The song was selected as England's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1968, which took place in London. Apart from the English version of the song, you can also find Cliff Richard performing the same song with almost the same lyrics in different languages like French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Furthermore, the languages in which Cliff Richard could not record this song also had this same song with compositions similar to those of other artists who were native to other languages. The song became so popular in the UK that on the final day of the Eurovision Song Contest, newspapers were writing headlines about who would win the second position as the first one was surely going to be taken by Congratulations and Celebrations.
This is the one song you are going to sing no matter the kind of celebration you are doing. In addition, this is one of the first songs that children learn, even in schools, and till you are old, you will sing this whenever it is your birthday or someone else's. Congratulations And Celebrations is more like a theme song that embarks you on a journey to celebrate good times in high spirits. To help you with the chord lesson of Congratulations And Celebrations, we have asked Steve Luciano, one of the best guitar teachers from our lineup. With over 40+ years of experience, he has become an expert in playing jazz tunes. He studied guitar from legendary teacher Joe Tinari, and as a jazz musician, his songs have been quite popular, so much so they were even featured in TV shows.
For the Congratulations guitar song lesson, Steve Luciano segmented the song into four parts to make it easier for you to learn different parts of the song at your own pace. Once you are done learning this song, you can move to similar songs such as All Apologies by Nirvana, Another Brick In The Wall by Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd and many more from our guitar song lesson repository.
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