From 18 to 80 – music for birthday productions can vary widely. Here’s some of our favourite picks. Please let us know if you’ve got others to add!

Aretha Franklin, Aint No Mountain High Enough

Ben E. King, Stand By Me

Billy Joel, She’s Got a Way About Her

Billy Joel, Just the Way You Are

Billy Joel, This is the Time

Cyndi Lauper, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Dianna Ross & The Supremes, My Guy

Dido, Thank You

Elvis Costello, She (Notting Hill Soundtrack)

Green Day, Time of Your Life

Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Joe Cocker, You Are So Beautiful

Roy Orbison, Pretty Woman

Stevie Wonder, Isn’t She Lovely

The Beach Boys, When I Grow Up to be a Man

The Beatles, When I’m 64

The Beatles, Birthday

The Kinks, Picture Book

The Temptations, My Girl

Van Morrison, Brown-Eyed Girl