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Lockdown Lick 94

Lockdown Lick

Lockdown Licks no. 94.

Happy Birthday To You 🎂🎉🎈 by Patty and Mildred Hill. Played on a Fender Telecaster with bridge pick up selected. NUX amp on clean setting with mid/bass/treble on 5.

Many happy returns to my sister on her birthday tomorrow!

Happy Birthday To You both loved and reviled in equal measure, has Patty & Mildred Hill from Kentucky USA down as the song’s original authors — or at least the authors of the song which led to “Happy Birthday” — which they wrote at the tail end of the 19th century.

According to the sisters, they penned the “Happy Birthday” melody in the 1890s for Patty’s kindergarten students. At first, it was called “Good Morning to All,” and sung each morning in class. When a student’s birthday arrived, the class would replace the “Good Morning to All” lyrics with “Happy Birthday to You”

As the song’s popularity expanded, the Hill sisters began to file suits against its unlicensed use — even against composers and playwrights Irving Berlin and Moss Hart, who allegedly used the song in a Broadway musical! It was as late as 2016 when their copyright expired and it can now be sung freely by all.🤗