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Celebrate the New Year with these Great New Year’s Songs!

Posted on Dec 26, 2008 by Monica in Holidays, Popular Music & Artists

Do you have New Year’s plans to ring in 2009 by playing or singing the New Year’s song Auld Lang Syne? Did you know that Auld Lang Syne is based off of a Scottish poem written by Robert Burns in 1788? The poem was then set to the tune of a traditional Scottish folk song and has been sung to ring in the New Year in several countries around the world!

“Auld Lang Syne” is usually sung each year at midnight on Hogmanay (New Year’s eve) in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Hong Kong, Singapore and English-speaking areas of India, Pakistan, and Canada, and signifies the start of a new year. –History of Auld Lang Syne on Wikipedia

Other popular New Year’s songs have included the unforgettable 1999 by Prince. Even though many party-goers played the song to usher in the New Year, Prince composed and released the song in 1982 — almost seventeen years after the fact. This year, Musicnotes.com brings you The New Year by Death Cab for Cutie, in response to a number of your requests for this contemporary New Year’s song. Who knows what next year will bring?

Here is a list of New Year’s and New Year’s Eve-related songs you might enjoy:

• Nothin’ New for New Year (For Me) by Harry Connick Jr.
• Everytime You Hear Auld Lang Syne by Barbara Streisand
• Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg
• A Long December by Counting Crows
• Happy New Year Darling composed by Johnny Marks and Carmen Lombardo
• Happy New Year by Alison Hedger
• The Final Countdown by Europe
• New Year’s Day by U2
• Auld Lang Syne by Various Artists
• It Was a Very Good Year by Frank Sinatra
• What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? by Barbra Streisand
• It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve by Barry Manilow

We’d also like to take this opportunity to say “thank you” for making 2008 such a wonderful, music-filled year! Here at Musicnotes.com we’ll be taking stock of some of the changes we’ve made in 2008, and are already working on some really awesome things for 2009.

From all of us here at Musicnotes.com, we hope you enjoy ringing in the New Year with your favorite songs! We hope that you and your family have a prosperous, music-filled New Year!!

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