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From Happy birthday to youHappy birthday to youHappy birthday dear Some oneHappy birthday to you. Evette Schaeffer Serial Numbers Saxophone Mouthpieces. Traditional variationsIt is traditional, among English-speakers, that at a birthday party, the song 'Happy Birthday to You' be sung to the birthday person by the other guests celebrating the birthday.

Vray Rhino 4 Serial on this page. More specifically, the birthday person is traditionally presented with a birthday cake with lit candles, with the number of candles sometimes corresponding to the age of the person. After the song is sung (usually just once), party guests sometimes add wishes like 'and many more. ' expressing the hope that the birthday person will enjoy a long life. The birthday person may be asked to make a wish ('Make a wish.

') --which he or she does silently--and then is supposed to blow out the candles. Traditionally, blowing out of the candles is believed (or is considered a lighthearted superstition) to ensure that the wish will come true. Once the candles have been blown out, people may applaud, after which the cake may be served, often with the first piece being served to the person whose birthday it is. In Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Ireland, immediately after 'Happy Birthday' has been sung, it is traditional for one of the guests to enthusiastically lead with 'Hip hip.

' and then for all of the other guests to join in and say '. ' This is normally repeated three times. In Canada, especially at young children's birthdays, immediately after 'Happy Birthday' has been sung, the singers segue into 'How old are you now?

How old are you now? How old are you now-ow, how old are you now? ' and then count up: 'Are you one? ' until they reach the right age, at which the celebrant says 'yes', and everybody else, who presumably know the right number, all cheer. History of the songOn June 27, 1859, teacher Mildred Hill was born. You may not know her name but you will almost certainly have sung the song she helped write.

Hill was the co-composer of Happy Birthday To You, originally called Good Morning To All, which is the song millions of people sing around a candlelit cake. It was first published in a songbook 90 years ago, on March 4. Although by 1924 the recognisable melody had been sung in American primary schools for nearly three decades, the publication was to trigger almost a century of legal wranglings which would result in Happy Birthday To You being one of the most lucrative songs of all time. To sing Happy Birthday in a restaurant, at a concert or public place, royalties had to be paid. The most recent exception to the rule, it would seem, is if you sing it on Mars - as Curiosity Rover did to the surface of the planet last August, a year after it landed. The familiar six-note tune and original similar, but importantly not birthday-related, lyrics were the work of two sisters, Mildred and Patty Hill, who composed Good Morning To All in 1893 to sing to their pupils every day. The Hill's lyrics wished listeners a 'good morning' where 'happy birthday' would later appear, and in this format the song made its way around Kentucky kindergartens and primary schools in the late 19th century.

The Hill sisters, possibly forseeing of the copyright battles to come, instructed the trainee teachers they shared the song with never to write it down. However, in around 1911 the word 'birthday' started to sneak its way into versions of the tune and it was first published next to the melody on this day in 1924. Apps Important features: Best happy birthday wishesBest happy birthday SongsBirthday Different WallpaperDifferent Song for BirthdayBirthday song for KidsBirthday song for BrotherBirthday song for MotherBirthday song for FatherBirthday song for SisterBirthday song for GirlFriendBirthday song for BoyFriendBirthday song for FriendBirthday song for BestFriendBirthday song for WifeBirthday song for HusbandBirthday song for SimpleEasy to play songBest Birthday Song for birthday party.