Mystery Solved: Here’s How ‘My Favorite Things’ From ‘The Sound of Music’ Became a Christmas Song. Some mysteries may never be solved, like who built the pyramids, and was that an ...

While Julie Andrews' 69th birthday was on 1 October 2004, she did not on that day, as the e-mailed tale asserts, sing a takeoff of "My Favorite Things" at a benefit in New York City.