It's my birthday!! =D
In keeping with tradition (actually.. to commemorate my birthday, ohh how self-centered of me lol) I'm going to blog about birthday mumbo jumbos. May I present the World's Most Popular Song! (ok that's just grossly exaggerated, but it's my birthday so i don't care! =X)
The "Happy Birthday" song (officially titled "Happy Birthday to You") evolved from a copyrighted kindergarten greeting song "Good Morning to All" which was created by 2 kindergarten teachers from Kentucky, USA. Mildred Jane Hill composed the melody and her younger sister Patty Smith Hill who was also the kindergarten principle completed the lyrics sometime in 1893.
Now, no one knows exactly when and who wrote the lyrics for "Happy Birthday to You". It was first published in a songbook edited by Robert Coleman in 1924, as a second stanza to "Good Morning to All".
"Happy Birthday to You" became wildly popular in 1933 after it made an uncredited appearance in a Broadway musical hit "As Thousands Cheer". The Hills sisters sued, and won the copyright by demonstrating the undeniable similarities between these two songs. It remains under copyright protection until year 2030!
reference:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1111624
http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0384530/bio
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0384558/bio
11 March 2009
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