{"id":9628,"date":"2023-07-01T06:17:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T10:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9628"},"modified":"2023-07-01T06:17:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T10:17:53","slug":"happy-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9628","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Happy_Birthday.png\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"Audio\/MP3\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\">mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Happy_Birthday.mp3\">Happy Birthday &#8211; Click To Play <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">The original song was &#8220;Good Morning To You&#8221; sung to teachers at the beginning of the school day. A dispute arose as to who the legitimate authors were and it was eventually taken over by Warner\/Chappell Music who made millions of dollars in licensing fees for movies and recordings. After a class action lawsuit it was returned to the public domain.<\/p>\n<p>I got the idea for using this song for the Folk Den from my long time musical associate Bob Dylan who sang it for Brian Wilsons recent 81st birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Click below to see Dylan sing Happy Birthday.<a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" \"happy=\"\" birthday\"=\"\" started=\"\" out=\"\" as=\"\" a=\"\" welcome=\"\" song=\"\" for=\"\" teachers.=\"\" the=\"\" original=\"\" melody=\"\" and=\"\" lyrics=\"\" were=\"\" designed=\"\" to=\"\" be=\"\" simple=\"\" easy=\"\" sing.=\"\" school=\"\" children=\"\" sang=\"\" it=\"\" in=\"\" morning:=\"\" \"good=\"\" morning=\"\" you=\"\" good=\"\" dear=\"\" teacher=\"\" you\"=\"\" over=\"\" years=\"\" dispute=\"\" arose=\"\" legitimate=\"\" author.=\"\" eventually=\"\" was=\"\" claimed=\"\" by=\"\" mca=\"\" who=\"\" made=\"\" millions=\"\" of=\"\" dollars=\"\" licensing=\"\" various=\"\" film=\"\" record=\"\" companies.=\"\" even=\"\" required=\"\" restaurants=\"\" pay=\"\" royalties=\"\" singing=\"\" at=\"\" guest=\"\" birthdays,=\"\" so=\"\" they=\"\" came=\"\" up=\"\" with=\"\" alternative=\"\" songs.=\"\" class=\"\" action=\"\" lawsuit=\"\" returned=\"\" public=\"\" domain.=\"\" had=\"\" repay=\"\" 14=\"\" million=\"\" people=\"\" licensed=\"\" from=\"\" them.=\"\" <=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"Bob Dylan Sings Happy Birthday\" a=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<br \/>\nHappy birthday to you<br \/>\nHappy birthday to you<br \/>\nHappy birthday dear &#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nHappy birthday to you<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bob_Dylan_Happy_Birthday_Brian_Wilson.mp4\" <=\"\" a=\"\"><\/a><a <=\"\" div=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mp3: Happy Birthday &#8211; Click To Play The original song was &#8220;Good Morning To You&#8221; sung to teachers at the beginning of the school day. A dispute arose as to who the legitimate authors were and it was eventually taken over by Warner\/Chappell Music who made millions of dollars in licensing fees for movies and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9628\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humorgameschildren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9628"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9644,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628\/revisions\/9644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}