Happy Vintage Victorian Birthday (Birthday)
"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."
Happy Winter Birthday (Birthday)
"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."
Happy(High String/Strung Diva)Birthday (Birthday)
Australian coloratura soprano Dame Joan Sutherland(1926-2010) was widely considered to be the world's greatest singer for 30 years (1960-1990). With the canny guidance of her husband/conductor Richard Bonynge, she became the most recorded operatic artist in history. The plain looks and sincerely down-to-earth manner of this "Voice Of The Century" only further endeared Dame Joan to her millions of admirers.
Hava Nice Birthday! (Birthday/Anyone)
"Hava Nagila"(Let's Rejoice!) Romanian/Ukrainian folk dance(hora); lyrics attributed to Jewish ethnologist Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, 1918, derived from the Old Testament, Psalm 118:Verse 24.
Let Me Call You Sweetheart (Birthday)
Music by Leo Friedman, lyrics by Tennessee-born Beth Slater Whitson, 1910. The same pair wrote "Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland," both Americana standards.
Oh, You Beautiful Doll (Birthday)
Music by Nat D. Ayer, lyrics by Seymour Brown, 1911.
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