What's the history of the most popular song on the planet: 'Happy Birthdat'?
Though we've heard this song countless time, very few of us know much its history. The melody and lyrics were written bu to sisters -- Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill. Patty was a schoolteacher at Columbia University Teachers' College. Mildred was also an educator who later on became a composer, organist and pianist. The melody was composed by Patty, but it was oruginally for a classroom gretting song titled Good Morning to All, which was part of the book 'Song Storier for the Kindergarten' published in 1893. From then the lyrics were changed firstly to 'Good Morning to You' and then finally'Happy Birthday to You' It is still unclear who changed the lyrics that turned it into a birthday song, but it was first published in 1924 in a book edited by Robert H. Coleman. Now it is a global smash.