This is the version of Good Morning to All, the song that is used in the Happy Birthday
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 here 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.