[78-L] Oldest Happy Birthday Recording

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Wiki, for what it's worth, says the melody appeared in 1893 and the 
lyrics and melody in 1913 I believe, IIRC, altho they probably existed 
earlier. So it seems possible that there may be an acoustic version out 
there somewhere.

joe salerno

Cary Ginell wrote:
> I've never seen one older than the one by Ray Nichols & his Four Towers Orchestra on Bluebird B-5921. This is from 1935, the year the Hill Sisters were able to copyright the song.
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> Cary Ginell
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>> From: wmfisher at mtsu.edu
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:32:28 -0500
>> Subject: [78-L] Oldest Happy Birthday Recording
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I'm trying to locate the oldest recording of "Happy Birthday" that I can for 
>> a special project. Any catalogue numbers??
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Martin 
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