Happy Birthday To You (Song + Variations) Classical Piano

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These are my Happy Birthday Variations that I improvise every time I get a birthday request when entertaining on piano.

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happybirthdaytoyou. "Happy Birthday to You," also known more simply as "Happy Birthday," is a traditional American song that is sung with joy to celebrate and commemorate the anniversary of a person's birth. Per the Guinness Book of World Records, "Happy Birthday to You" is presently noted as the most well recognized song in the English language, followed by, yet just as well liked, "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and "Auld Lang Syne.

In spite of it's lyrics, the basic melody of "Happy Birthday to You" comes from the roundelay song "Good Morning to All," which was written and simply composed by the two American sisters Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill in 1893

In 1935 "Happy Birthday to You" was copyrighted as a work for hire by Preston Ware Orem for the Summy Company, the publisher of "Good Morning to All". The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Zucker brothers learned about the copyright issue unwittingly when they decided to include a gag in The Kentucky Fried Movie that had made them laugh growing up: A man sings "Happy Birthday" to remind himself of his own name.

King of the Hill uses a song written to the tune of "Up on the Housetop" for birthday-related scenes and flashbacks.

On a Cold War-themed 1987 episode of The Golden Girls, Blanche sings the song to an unseen Mikhail Gorbachev á la Marilyn Monroe in a fantasy sequence set in Red Square.

The Beatles' Christmas Album had John Lennon singing an impromptu parody on the 1963 greeting.

In 1955, Igor Stravinsky arranged a variation of the song, called Greeting Prelude, to commemorate the 80th birthday of Pierre Monteux.

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.

sung by the crew of Apollo IX on March 8, 1969.

In the Homestar Runner cartoon "Strong Bad Sings", there is a scene where The Cheat plays "Happy Birthday to You" on the piano while Strong Mad struggles to remember the words to the song.
In the first season of the show Sports Night, Dan Rydell is told that his company will have to pay ,500 in legal costs because he sang "Happy Birthday" to his co-anchor Casey on air.

Citizens Brigade Aqua Teen Hunger Force for Meatwad's birthday.

Stewart Copeland, best known as drummer for The Police, says in the commentary track to the DVD version of his documentary film Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out that he had to overlay a music soundtrack and use the image only in one shot where "Happy Birthday" was being sung in the original footage, because the rights to the song are "incredibly expensive".

On the July 23, 1985 episode of Super Password, Tom Poston, Who was one of the celebrity guests, told Bert Convy to look at the puzzle board which asked whose birthday it was that day. the answer was Bert Convy. Everybody in the studio sang and a cake came out the entrance door.
Futurama episode "I Second That Emotion" parodied the copyright issue with a distinctly similar-tuned song with new lyrics and ending with "Now let's all have some cake".
In an episode of The Simpsons (Series 3), The Ramones sing punk rock rendition of "Happy Birthday to You" to Mr. Burns, at the end of which CJ Ramone says, "Go to hell y'old bastard."
In an episode of Curb your Enthusiasm, the characters are singing "Happy Birthday to You" to Ben Stiller, but Larry David refuses to sing the song to him.
On the January 9, 2008 Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, during the "It's Email Time Again" section of the show where host Craig Ferguson answers viewers' emails, one viewer told Craig it was her birthday and asked if he would sing her "Happy Birthday".
Thousands of spectators sang happy birthday to Pope Benedict XVI at the White House on April 16, 2008, his 81st birthday.
On the May 28th, 2008, broadcast of The View, Whoopi Goldberg led the audience in singing the song to celebrate the birthday of Elizabeth Hasselbeck, to the obvious discomfort of Joy Behar.
In June 2008, PBS aired an episode of "Miffy and Friends" where "Happy Birthday" was sung several times during the "Happy Birthday Miffy" episode.
On June 27, 2008, hundreds of people in London's Hyde Park sang the song to Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his 90th birthday.
Following his 200 m gold medal performace at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the crowd at Beijing National Stadium sereneded Usain Bolt with "Happy Birthday", as his birthday began at midnight that night.