song that everyone knows. Obviously it was very exciting to open up

a folder full of materials that were just sort of hidden away in a filing cabinet that

no one ever looks at and find the manuscript for the Good Morning to You song which eventually

evolved into the Happy Birthday song that is so known world-wide. The song that everyone

knows as Happy Birthday was originally published in 1893 by the Clayton Summy Company as Good Morning to All

it appears in the first song of a song book called Song Stories for the Kindergarten.

The songs were composed by Mildred Hill and the words were by her sister Patty.

Much has been written about how the song evolved from Good Morning to You into Happy Birthday,

much, much research because the song as we know it, the Happy Birthday that currently

is copyrighted and there's a big lawsuit going on right now so I won't discuss the copyright to much

but it originally was Good Morning to You and sometime in the early 1900s around

I believe 1912 was the first time that we saw it published with the Happy Birthday lyrics,

there's various stories as to how that came to be, some say that it was originally Patty

suggested that it was a child's birthday in one of her classes and that they changed the words.

There are some other different versions to the story, it's another one of those things

that's sort of a mystery.