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Happy birthday to you The creative background of "Happy Birthday to You"

The prototype of "Happy Birthday to You" is a song called The song "Good Morning to All" is written by the Hill sisters (Mildred J. Hill & Patty Smith). The lyrics are catchy:?Good Morning to All/ Good Morning to All/ Goodmorning dear children/Good morning to all?. The Hill sisters were kindergarten teachers at the time, and "Good Morning Everyone" was originally a song sung by teachers and students to greet each other in the morning. In the opinion of Professor Blones, the melody they came up with is very original, and the song is also very suitable for children's singing ability and appreciation taste: it has only one octave, one long scale, and only two points. notes and quarter notes. For this reason alone, I think the copyright of this song is worth protecting. ?

This achievement of the Hill sisters was no accident. They are not the kind of ordinary female teachers who can only play the piano and sing. They are more like a well-trained creative team. Their sister Mildred (1859-1916) is responsible for composing the music, and her sister Patty (1868-1946) writes the lyrics. Together they experimented with new songs in the classroom to see if they were popular with the children. Mildred later became a pioneer in ethnomusicology, and Patty later became an education expert at Columbia University and enjoyed a high reputation. On June 12, 1896, the sisters became members of the Songwriters Hall of Fame under the American Academy of Popular Music.

"Good Morning to All" was officially published in 1893 and printed in "Song Stories for the Kindergarten" (Song Stories for the Kindergarten) published by the Hill sisters themselves. The first printed version of "Happy Birthday to You" that retained the melody but replaced the lyrics was in 1912 (this version probably existed before 1912). This song was already very popular in the 1930s, but no one came forward to say that the lyrics and melody were composed by themselves, and there was no signature when it was printed and published. It took several lawsuits before the Hill sisters' identities as creators became known.

In 1934, the Broadway stage play "As Thousands Cheer" used "Happy Birthday to You" in a scene. The Hill sisters filed a lawsuit, pointing out that "Happy Birthday to You" was A variation of "Good Morning to All," and the stage play owed them more than $100,000 in royalties? The creator of that stage play, Irving Berlin, may not have known that the melody of "Good Morning to All" was copyrighted at the time. . In 1935, Sum My Company registered the copyright of the song and signed the name of the famous composer Preston Ware Orem (1865~1938), saying that it was a song he was hired to write. Afterwards, the sisters went to court again, and both lawsuits were settled out of court.

However, the lawsuits filed by the Hill sisters cleverly avoided the song "Happy Birthday to You" itself, but limited it to the melody. And according to research by Professor Blones, the sisters Neither of them ever claimed that "Happy Birthday to You" was written by them. As for when and who wrote the lyrics for this variant song, Professor Blones has been unable to draw a clear conclusion by looking through a large number of old papers and using Internet search engines such as Google Books and Google News.

The earliest record that can be found is the January 1900 issue of "Educator Journal", which mentions the unsigned lyrics of "Good Morning Everyone", and then mentions that everyone was in? A special What occasion? Sing this variation of "Happy Birthday to You" together. It is certain that this article was printed before January 1900, so Professor Brones believes that the birth of this song can finally be dated to the 19th century. There is a saying that children like this song very much and sing it everywhere, changing the lyrics. They also sing it on birthdays, but change it to the words "Happy Birthday". From this point of view, this song is better because of its simple melody with little ups and downs. It is easy to change it to other lyrics, and children with strong imitation ability can easily put it to use.