Happy Birthday to You: The 1893 Song Two Sisters Wrote for a Classroom

Happy Birthday to You was written in 1893 by two sisters, Mildred and Patti Smith Hill, in Louisville, Kentucky. It started as a classroom greeting called Good Morning to All, not the birthday song the whole world knows today. James walks through how a simple tune for schoolchildren became the most frequently sung song in the English language.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

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