[78-L] Oldest Happy Birthday Recording

[Cary Ginell]

The "Happy Birthday to You" lyrics did not appear in print until the 1920s and were not "officially" fixed to the melody until 1935. The melody's original words were "Good morning to all." I know of no acoustic recording of "Happy Birthday to You" and would wager that you won't find one...
 
Cary Ginell
 
> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:43:18 -0500
> From: neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Oldest Happy Birthday Recording
> 
> 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.
> > 
> > Cary Ginell
> > 
> >> 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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