[78-L] Oldest Happy Birthday Recording

[martha]

 A current (local?) TV commercial is using a bit of Beethoven's 9th , fer 
instance.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Shulman" <jshul at comcast.net>
To: "'78-L Mail List'" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Oldest Happy Birthday Recording


> And we can thank the 1935 copyright for the ghastly birthday chants you 
> hear
> in chain dinner-house restaurants (such as Applebees, Ruby Tuesday's, 
> etc.)
> who abhor paying a license fee for using the traditional song.
>