Happy Fall Birthday (4 Seasons/Autumn)
"Happy Birthday," perhaps the most sung song in the English language, dates back melodically to 1893. Two sisters, Mildred Hill and Patty Smith Hill, included a classroom greeting "Good Morning To All" in a published book called "Song Stories for the Kindergarten." The lyrics now sung worldwide evolved over the next 40 years from the Hill sisters' original words to what everyone now knows as "Happy Birthday To You."
Indian Summer (4 Seasons/Autumn)
Originally a piano solo composed by Irish-born operetta king Victor Herbert in 1919. Lyrics by Al Dubin added later, leading to the song's enduring popularity as a Big Band Era standard.
Last Rose Of Summer, The (4 Seasons/Autumn)
Words of Irish poet Thomas Moore, melody an 18th century tune entitled "The Young Man's Dream," published 1813 as part of Moore's famous collection "A Section Of Irish Melodies."
Shine On, Harvet Moon (4 Seasons/Autumn)
Written and performed by the married vaudeville team of Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth in the 1908 "Ziegfeld Follies." Yet another "moon/June/croon/spoon" song so popular in Tin Pan Alley's early days. Some laugh & jeer, but we're still singing them a century later.
Trees (4 Seasons/Autumn)
Celebrated poem by Mahwah, New Jersey poet Joyce Kilmer (1913); set to music by American composer Oscar Rasbach (1922). One of America's most recited poems for generations, often the subject of severe literary criticism for its technical literary faults. For the less dogmatic and more romantic amongst us, an unabashed celebration of nature and its dominant place in the life of the human spirit.
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