Happy Birthday To You

"Happy Birthday to You" is the best birthday song birthday song sung in English-speaking countries. It is a song that is sung on the anniversary of the birth of a person to celebrate. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, "Happy Birthday to You" is the most popular song in English, followed by "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and "Auld Lang Syne". The "Happy Birthday to You" song has been translated into dozens of languages. Despite the translation, the song is often sung in English in non-English speaking countries. It is the most popular song sung in the United States. American sisters Patty and Mildred Hill wrote the melody of "Happy Birthday to You" in 1893. Patty and Mildred were teachers in Louisville, Kentucky. While the melody remains the same words have been changed since the original. The verse was originally intended as a classroom greeting entitled "Good Morning to All". The song "Good Morning to All" is part of the book Song Stories for the Kindergarten that the sisters co-wrote and published in 1893. It is not entirely clear who wrote the lyrics to "Happy Birthday to You". It is unknown who turn changed the lyrics to a birthday song, but it was first published in 1924 in a book edited by Robert H. Coleman. Jessica Hill, another sister Hill, filed a suit for the unauthorized use of the "Happy Birthday to You" melody that clearly resembles the melody of "Good Morning to All", the song originally wrote her sisters. The current version is known worldwide copyrighted in 1935 by the Summy Company as an arrangement by Preston Ware Orem. Because copyright is set to expire in 2030. The 1935 version was the first version to the copyrighted texts to include. Warner Chappell purchased the company that the copyright in 1990 for $ 15 million U.S. dollars, the value of "Happy Birthday" approached 5 million U.S. dollars. The current copyright status of the "Happy Birthday to You" song is uncertain. Warner claims that unauthorized public performances of the song are technically illegal unless royalties are paid to them. One of the most famous performances of "Happy Birthday to You" was the performance of Marilyn Monroe to U.S. President John F. Kennedy in May 1962.