The happy birthday song
Of course, relatives and friends have always been allowed to sing the song to birthday boys and girls without paying.
Because no one else has claimed the song - at least for now - anybody can sing it for free. That’s why many restaurants came up with their own happy birthday songs for servers to sing to customers.īut a judge in California recently decided that the company doesn’t own the song and that it’s not clear who does. According to Wikipedia, this classic song was written in 1893 by Patty and Mildred J. Everyone’s favourite penguin surf harmony group sing a fun birthday song for you. Happy Birthday to You, commonly known as Happy Birthday, is a traditional song to celebrate the anniversary of one’s birth. Until recently, anyone who used the happy birthday song in a movie, play or other public performance had to pay a company that claimed it owned the song. Send this cute dancing panda to wish your near and dear ones a very happy birthday. Eventually, the words “good morning to all” changed to “happy birthday to you.” Then the sisters would rework the song, fixing the tricky parts. A chronicle of Junie Bennetts birthdays from the ages of ten to twenty one. The classic Happy Birthday to You song is one of the first, easy tunes many of us learn as kids, but the history of the song is anything but simple. She noticed parts that were hard to sing and parts that didn’t sound quite right. You and me, he whispered, until the end of time. The Happy Birthday song, or Happy Birthday to You, is sung in English and in many other languages around the world. The next day, Patty would teach it to her students, watching and listening as the kids sang. He explains that the Hill sisters would work on writing their song in the evenings. Happy Birthday, in other words, is an incredibly common song thatbecause it is sung specifically, each year, to us. Robert Brauneis, a professor at George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., has studied the history of the song. No other musical work has evoked so much spontaneous music-making.