"the European Union on January 1, 2017. In the United States, a federal court ruled in 2016 that Warner/Chappell's copyright claim was invalid and there was no other claim to copyright. The origins of ""Happy Birthday to You"" date back to at least the late 19th century, when two sisters, Patty and Mildred J. Hill, introduced the song ""Good Morning to All"" to Patty's kindergarten class in Kentucky. Years later, in 1893, they published the tune in their songbook ""Song Stories for the Kindergarten"". Kembrew McLeod stated that the Hill sisters likely copied the tune and lyrical idea from other"
"question after a judge ruled against the legitimacy of the copyright. Hill and her sister were posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 12, 1996. Mildred J. Hill Mildred Jane Hill (June 27, 1859 – June 5, 1916) was an American songwriter and musicologist, who composed the melody for ""Good Morning to All"", later used as the melody for ""Happy Birthday to You"". Mildred Jane Hill, born in Louisville, Kentucky, was the oldest of three sisters, Mildred, Patty, and Jessica. She learned music from her father, Calvin Cody, and Adolph Weidig. It has been reported that Mildred"
"Mildred J. Hill Mildred Jane Hill (June 27, 1859 – June 5, 1916) was an American songwriter and musicologist, who composed the melody for ""Good Morning to All"", later used as the melody for ""Happy Birthday to You"". Mildred Jane Hill, born in Louisville, Kentucky, was the oldest of three sisters, Mildred, Patty, and Jessica. She learned music from her father, Calvin Cody, and Adolph Weidig. It has been reported that Mildred Hill was a kindergarten and Sunday-school teacher, like her younger sister Patty. Prof. Robert Brauneis, after extensively researching the Hill family, has concluded that she was not a"
"the tune is disputed. Patty Hill was a kindergarten principal in Louisville, Kentucky, developing various teaching methods at what is now the Little Loomhouse; her sister Mildred was a pianist and composer. The sisters used ""Good Morning to All"" as a song that young children would find easy to sing. The combination of melody and lyrics in ""Happy Birthday to You"" first appeared in print in 1912, and probably existed even earlier. None of the early appearances of the ""Happy Birthday to You"" lyrics included credits or copyright notices. The Summy Company registered a copyright in 1935, crediting authors Preston"
"and Swedish. ""Happy Birthday to You"" first appeared in print in 1912 using the melody of ""Good Morning to All"" with different lyrics. Its popularity continued to grow through the 1930s, with no author identified for the new lyrics, nor credit given for the melody from ""Good Morning to You"". Based on 1935 copyright registrations by the Summy Company, and a series of court cases (which all settled out of court), the sisters became known as the authors of ""Happy Birthday to You"". The Hill Foundation today shares royalties on public performances of the song. However this was brought into"
"Happy Birthday (Birthday Party song) ""Happy Birthday"" is a 1980 song by The Boys Next Door. It was released as a single on 16 February 1980 on Missing Link. The song is not related to the popular birthday song ""Happy Birthday to You"". The first album it appeared on was ""The Birthday Party"". It was later included as track two on the 1992 compilation ""Hits"". The release of the single was part of the band's rebranding of themselves as The Birthday Party before their relocation to London. It is notable for several reasons. The mundanity of the song's lyrical subject"
"from Boston in 1855 (although the words to ""Oh Happy Da""y can be traced even further back to 1755). This melody is in turn attributed to English composer Edward F. Rimbault. The notes' positions in the major scale are 5 < 1 < 2 < 3 as numbered diatonically and 8 < 1 < 3 < 5 as numbered chromatically (""e.g."", G < C < D < E in C major, C < F < G < A in F major, and D < G < A < B in G major). The transition of the melody from a hymn"
"popular and similar nineteenth-century songs that predated theirs, including Horace Waters' ""Happy Greetings to All"", ""Good Night to You All"" also from 1858, ""A Happy New Year to All"" from 1875, and ""A Happy Greeting to All"", published 1885. However, American law professor Robert Brauneis disputes this, noting that these earlier songs had quite different melodies. It is likely that teachers and students spontaneously adapted the published version of ""Good Morning to All"" to celebrate birthdays in the classroom, changing the lyrics to ""Happy Birthday"" in the process. The complete text of ""Happy Birthday to You"" first appeared in print"
"Happy Birthday, Mr. President ""Happy Birthday, Mr. President"" is a song sung by actress and singer Marilyn Monroe on May 19, 1962, for President John F. Kennedy at a celebration of his 45th birthday, 10 days before the actual date (May 29). Monroe sang the traditional ""Happy Birthday to You"" lyrics in a sultry, intimate voice, with ""Mr. President"" inserted as Kennedy's name. She continued the song with a snippet from the classic song, ""Thanks for the Memory"", for which she had written new lyrics specifically aimed at Kennedy. Afterwards, as an enormous birthday cake was presented to him, President"
"""Happy Birthday to You"" was one. Grants in 2005 for copyright clearances allowed PBS to rebroadcast the film as recently as February 2008. In 2010, the Western classical music conductor Zubin Mehta conducted the orchestra to play variations of Happy Birthday in the styles of various Western classical music composers including Wagner, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, and in the Viennese, New Orleans and Hungarian composition styles. On August 5, 2013, the first anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover celebrated its ""birthday"" when engineers at Goddard Space Flight Center used the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument to"
"on Brauneis's research, Good Morning to You Productions, a company producing a documentary about ""Good Morning to All"", sued Warner/Chappell for falsely claiming copyright to the song. In September 2015, a federal judge declared that the Warner/Chappell copyright claim was invalid, ruling that the copyright registration applied only to a specific piano arrangement of the song, and not to its lyrics and melody. In 2016, Warner/Chappell settled for US $14 million, and the court declared that ""Happy Birthday to You"" was in the public domain. The person whose birthday is being celebrated is filled in for ""[NAME]"". The earliest known"
"Happy Birthday (Stevie Wonder song) ""Happy Birthday"" is a 1981 single written, produced and performed by Stevie Wonder for the Motown label. Wonder, a social activist, was one of the main figures in the campaign to have the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. become a national holiday, and created this single to make the cause known. Besides being released as a single, the song also appears on Wonder's album ""Hotter Than July"". The song, one of many of Wonder's songs to feature the use of a keyboard synthesizer, features Wonder lamenting the fact that anyone would oppose the idea"
"the United States, and the creation of the song ""Happy Birthday to You"". However, it is in constant state of defending against deterioration. The Esta Cabin encapsulates the history of the Loomhouse, and is the cabin where the song ""Happy Birthday to You"" was first sung. The cabin was first built by a Beoni Figg in 1870 as a business office for his charcoal, lumber, and quarries interests. It has been enlarged since then from a two-room cabin. One of these enhancements replaced the vertical split log siding with board and batten. In 1939 Lou Tate acquired the cabin and"
"as the final four lines of Edith Goodyear Alger's poem ""Roy's Birthday"", published in her book ""A Primer of Work and Play"", copyrighted by D. C. Heath in 1901, with no reference to the words being sung. The first book including ""Happy Birthday"" lyrics set to the tune of ""Good Morning to All"" that bears a date of publication is from 1911 in ""The Elementary Worker and His Work"", but earlier references exist to a song called ""Happy Birthday to You"" including an article from 1901 in the ""Inland Educator and Indiana School Journal"". ""Children's Praise and Worship"", edited by"
"Happy Birthday (Merry Christmas and Happy New Year) Happy Birthday (Merry Christmas and Happy New Year) is a country song written by Ron Kitson, published by Sure-Fire Music, and recorded by Loretta Lynn in the fall of 1964 and released before Christmas of that year on Decca Records as a 45-rpm single. ""Happy Birthday"" was not only an instant country hit, but up until Christmas of that year was receiving considerable airplay on pop-rock stations on the east and west coasts of the United States and was a ""Pick Hit of the Week"" on WWDC, Washington, DC. The song continued"
"Land Is Your Land"". One of the most famous performances of ""Happy Birthday to You"" was Marilyn Monroe's rendition to U.S. President John F. Kennedy in May 1962. Another notable use was by comedy pianist Victor Borge, who played the song in styles of various composers, or would begin playing ""Moonlight Sonata"", smoothly transitioning into the song. The documentary film ""The Corporation"" states that Warner/Chappell charged up to 10,000 for the song to appear in a film. Because of the copyright issue, filmmakers rarely showed complete singalongs of ""Happy Birthday"" in films, either substituting the public-domain ""For He's a Jolly"
"Happy Birthday (Altered Images song) ""Happy Birthday"" is a song by the Scottish band Altered Images released as a single from their 1981 album of the same name. The song entered the UK charts in September 1981, and peaked at number 2 in October, holding that position for three weeks. It has been certified Silver by the BPI for sales in excess of 250,000 copies. ""Happy Birthday"" is the only song on the album that was produced by Martin Rushent, who had already scored major success that year producing for The Human League and would win the Producer of the"
"New York City, and is buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky. She and Mildred J. Hill were posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 12, 1996. Patty Hill Patty Smith Hill (March 27, 1868 – May 25, 1946) was a composer and teacher who is perhaps best known for co-writing, with her sister Mildred Hill, the tune which later became popular as ""Happy Birthday to You"". She was an American nursery school, kindergarten teacher, and key founder of the National Association for Nursery Education (NANE) which now exists as the National Association For the Education of"
"Morning to All"". The tune became even more popular as ""Happy Birthday to You"" during the 20th century. Hill and her sister Mildred wrote the song (Mildred wrote the tune; Patty wrote the original lyrics) while Mildred was a composer of songs and Patty was principal at the Louisville Experimental Kindergarten School. This kindergarten was an early experiment in modern educational methods, and was honored, along with the Hill sisters, at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. Patty Smith Hill, who never married, was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by Columbia University in 1929. Hill died at her home in"
"Andrew Byers, Bessie L. Byrum and Anna E. Koglin, published the song in 1918. In 1924, Robert Coleman included ""Good Morning to All"" in a songbook with the birthday lyrics as a second verse. Coleman also published ""Happy Birthday"" in ""The American Hymnal"" in 1933. In 1935, several specific piano arrangements and an unused second verse of ""Happy Birthday to You"" were copyrighted as a work for hire crediting Preston Ware Orem for the piano arrangements and Mrs. R. R. Forman for the lyrics by the Summy Company, the publisher of ""Good Morning to All"". This served as the legal"
"Happy, Happy Birthday Baby ""Happy, Happy Birthday Baby"" is a 1957 song written by Margo Sylvia & Gilbert Lopez. ""Happy, Happy Birthday Baby"" was originally performed by The Tune Weavers, who had their only hit with this song. Both Margo Sylvia and Gilbert Lopez were members of The Tune Weavers. The single went to number four on the R&B chart and went to number five on the Hot 100. The B-side of ""Happy, Happy Birthday Baby, was The Tune Weavers version of ""Ol' Man River"" The inspiration for the song came from Margo's then-boyfriend, Donald Clements, who was a member"
"Patty Hill Patty Smith Hill (March 27, 1868 – May 25, 1946) was a composer and teacher who is perhaps best known for co-writing, with her sister Mildred Hill, the tune which later became popular as ""Happy Birthday to You"". She was an American nursery school, kindergarten teacher, and key founder of the National Association for Nursery Education (NANE) which now exists as the National Association For the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Patty Smith Hill was born in 1868 in Anchorage, Kentucky, just outside Louisville. Her parents were passionate people who instilled in Patty and her siblings the importance"
"a Jolly Good Fellow"" is the second-most popular song in the English language, following ""Happy Birthday to You"" and followed by ""Auld Lang Syne"". The tune is of French origin and dates at least from the 18th century. Allegedly it was composed the night after the Battle of Malplaquet in 1709. It became a French folk tune and was popularized by Marie Antoinette after she heard one of her maids singing it. The melody became so popular in France that it was used to represent the French defeat in Beethoven's composition ""Wellington's Victory"" Opus 91 written in 1813. The melody"
"of 50 million. In the European Union, the copyright for the song expired on January 1, 2017. The American copyright status of ""Happy Birthday to You"" began to draw more attention with the passage of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act in 1998. When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Act in ""Eldred v. Ashcroft"" in 2003, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer specifically mentioned ""Happy Birthday to You"" in his dissenting opinion. American law professor Robert Brauneis, who extensively researched the song, concluded in 2010 that ""It is almost certainly no longer under copyright."" In 2013, based in large part"
"Happy Days (TV theme) ""Happy Days"" is a song written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox. It is the theme song of the 1970s television series ""Happy Days"". It can be heard during the TV show's opening and closing credits as it runs in perpetual rerun syndication. The song was first recorded in 1974 by Jim Haas with a group of other session singers for the first two seasons. These versions of the song were used only during the closing credits of Seasons 1 and 2, with an updated version of ""Rock Around the Clock"" by Bill Haley and His"
"""Happy Birthday to You"" song, ""For He's a Jolly Good Fellow"" was the most commonly sung birthday song. As with many songs that use gender-specific pronouns, the song can be altered to agree with the sex of the intended recipient, ""he"" being replaced with ""she"". If the song is being sung to two or more people (e.g. twins or triplets) it is altered to use plurals (i.e. ""For ""They"" are Jolly Good Fellow""s""."") The last syllable of the third iteration of ""For he's a jolly good fellow"" is often sung with an exaggerated fermata or pause before going on, making"
"cause the rover to ""sing"" Happy Birthday on the Martian surface. During the March 6, 2014 episode of the Comedy Central series ""The Colbert Report"", Stephen Colbert planned to sing the song in honor of the 90th anniversary of its 1924 publication. Due to the copyright issues, Colbert instead performed his new ""royalty-free"" birthday song, which is set to ""The Star-Spangled Banner"". Happy Birthday to You ""Happy Birthday to You"", also known as ""Happy Birthday"", is a song traditionally sung to celebrate the anniversary of a person's birth. According to the 1998 ""Guinness World Records"", it is the most recognized"
"Unchained Melody ""Unchained Melody"" is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. North used the music as a theme for the little-known prison film ""Unchained"" (1955), hence the song title. Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack. It has since become a standard and one of the most often recorded songs of the 20th century, most notably by the Righteous Brothers. According to the song's publishing administrator, over 1,500 recordings of ""Unchained Melody"" have been made by more than 670 artists, in multiple languages. In 1955, three versions of the song (by"
"song ""Happy Birthday to You"" be sung to the birthday person by the other guests celebrating the birthday. More specifically, the birthday person is traditionally presented with a birthday cake with lit candles, with the number of candles sometimes corresponding to the age of the person. After the song is sung (usually just once), party guests sometimes add wishes like ""and many more!"" expressing the hope that the birthday person will enjoy a long life. The birthday person may be asked to make a wish (""Make a wish!"")—which he or she does silently—and then is supposed to blow out the"
"Happy Together (song) ""Happy Together"" is a song by American rock band the Turtles from their third studio album ""Happy Together"" (1967). The song was written by Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon, former members of the Magicians. The song had been rejected a dozen times before it was offered to the Turtles, and the demo acetate was worn out."" Released as a single in February 1967, the song knocked the Beatles' ""Penny Lane"" out of the number one slot on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and remained atop the chart for three weeks. It was the group's only chart-topper in"
"Happy Birthday (play) Happy Birthday is a play written by Anita Loos. It opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 31, 1946 and closed on March 13, 1948, after 564 performances. It starred Helen Hayes, for whom it was written. The story involves Addie, a mousy librarian who becomes enamoured of a handsome bank clerk, and her attempts to win him over. It was directed by Joshua Logan and featured a song written for the show, ""I Haven't Got a Worry in the World"", with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and James Livingston."
"main and the bells heard on campus today are electrical chimes. During the week, Old Main's chimes play the Westminster Quarters, but on Fridays and Saturdays, part of a Penn State school fight song, ""Hail To The Lion"", is played instead. For special events the tune can vary additionally; for example, on February 22, 2005, the university's 150th anniversary, the clock tower toned ""Happy Birthday to You"". The frescoes located on the upper walls of Old Main’s lobby were created from the ideas of professors Harold Dickson, J. Burn Helme and Francis E. Hyslop to pay a tribute to the"
"country. The phrase ""happy birthday"" did not appear on birthday cakes until the song ""Happy Birthday to You"" was popularized in the early 1900s. Variations of birthday songs and rituals exist in different parts of the world. In Uruguay, party guests touch the person's shoulder or head following the singing of ""Happy Birthday to You"". In Ecuador, the person whose birthday it is will take a large bite of the birthday cake before it is served. In Peru, guests used to sing ""Happy Birthday to You"" first in English with the name of the individual whose birthday it is, then"