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🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily. |
0:04.0 | If there's one song almost everyone knows, |
0:10.0 | it's Happy Birthday to You. |
0:12.0 | And yes, that is the actual title of the song, |
0:15.0 | even though everyone just calls it happy birthday. |
0:17.0 | Not only has the song been sung at countless children's birthday parties, |
0:21.0 | but it's also been mentioned in Supreme Court decisions and was the subject of one of the most |
0:25.1 | important copyright cases in history. Learn more about the most famous song in the world |
0:30.1 | on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. According to legend, and I use the word legend because the actual origins of the song are in some doubt, which I'll get to shortly, |
0:56.0 | the song Happy Birthday to You was written by two sisters, Patty and Mildred Hill of Louisville, Kentucky in 1893. |
1:04.0 | Patty and Mildred worked at the Louisville Experimental School. |
1:08.0 | The melody to the song was written by Mildred, and Patty wrote the lyrics. |
1:12.0 | Their intent was to create a simple song for the |
1:14.4 | kindergartners to learn and I have to say it was a shocking success. The song was |
1:19.6 | originally not titled Happy Birthday to you. The song was originally Good Morning to All, |
1:24.8 | with the lyrics being exactly as you would guess given the title. |
1:28.2 | The original intent of the song was for the teacher to sing the song to the students in the morning. |
1:34.0 | Likewise, there were alternate lyrics for the children |
1:36.2 | to sing back to their teacher, which went, |
1:38.0 | Good Morning to You. |
1:40.0 | Patty and Mildred published Good Morning to All, |
1:42.4 | but they didn't explicitly publish the version, |
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