Many Mexicans and other Latin Americans will also sing Que Los Cumpla Feliz, which is a literal translation of the American song Happy Birthday to You, as a way of assimilating into North American culture. However, Mexicans should be proud that they have such a lovely song with a rich and varied history. We sincerely hope that this article will help you in being able to join in this cultural experience and to celebrate your Mexican loved ones with the Mexican birthday song.
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The Guinness Book of Records calls it the most popular song in the English language. It has been sung to popes and presidents, and incorporated into nearly 150 movies. It was featured in the world's first singing telegram. And during the Apollo 9 mission, it became the first song performed in outer space
\"If you want to sing it at your home at a birthday party you don't have to pay anything, because that is a private performance,\" he said. \"But if you want to use it in a television show, a movie, or a television commercial, you'll pay anywhere from $5,000 to $30,000 for those rights.\"
After a series of purchases and acquisitions, the song is now owned by Warner Music Group, through its publishing arm, Warner/Chappell. It collects royalties for everything from happy birthday ring-tones to e-cards that play \"Happy Birthday to You.\"
The Girl Scouts once were warned they would have to pay a fee if campers sang it. Even restaurants are supposed to pay, which is why some chains have their waiters sing alternative birthday songs that require no rights payments.
Over the course of her career, Sabah recorded over 3,000 songs and appeared in 98 movies. She received a special honor at the 1998 Alexandria film festival and retired from cinema in 1981. Sabah is considered one of the three Lebanese icons, along Wadih El Safi and Fairouz, and she was nicknamed "The Empress of Lebanese Song".
everybody knows the song "happy birthday to you" it is the most popular and most often sung song in the english language it is also now part of a legal case a new york film company called good morning to you (gmty) productions has opened a lawsuit that says the song belongs in the public domain this means anyone can use it because there is no copyright on it however the record label warner music says it owns the copyright to the tune gmty is making a documentary about the history of the song and had to pay warner music $1500 to use it if it didn't pay it could have got a penalty of $150000 the boss of gmty was angry about this fee and took the case to a court in new york
the melody of "happy birthday to you" comes from the song "good morning to all" this was written in 1893 by two sisters from kentucky usa they wrote it because they thought it would be easy for young children to sing the words to "happy birthday to you" were added to the tune around a decade later one of the most famous performances of the song was when marilyn monroe sang "happy birthday mr president" in a sexy voice to john f kennedy in 1962 gmty says any copyright on the song ran out almost 100 years ago the company wants warner music to return the millions of dollars it has collected for the song warner music has so far stayed quiet and has not commented on the court case
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While there is controversy, the melody is generally attributed to two sisters, Mildred and Patty Hill, who wrote it for a song called "Good Morning to All". The actual birthday lyrics seemed to have no specific origin but were first combined with the melody in print in 1912. (About 100 years ago!) Is there a copyright? Well one is claimed and royalties are often paid to use it.
You might be wondering why restaurants go out of their way and take the time to write a birthday song for its customers when Happy Birthday exists. Well, until recently Happy Birthday was not available for restaurants to sing the song publicly. As a matter of fact, it was not available for any individual or group of individuals to publicly perform the song without authorization because the song was still copyrighted and was not yet in the public domain.
It is puzzling to think that a song that we are so accustomed to singing at every birthday party we attended, is not available to for us to sing in the public. This is because the Happy Birthday song was still under the protection of its copyright and not available to the public domain until last year.
This meant that Warner could sue any individual or company that sang the Happy Birthday song in public with the only exception to small gathering of family/friends in a private setting. This public setting included restaurants, tv shows and movies.
That is why restaurants had to create their own Happy Birthday song to sing to its customers. It is why you never hear the characters in a TV show or movie sing happy birthday to one of the characters during a birthday celebration. And it is why you never hear the Happy Birthday song on the radio or any public performance of it.
In order for a restaurant or a TV show/movie to be able to sing the Happy Birthday song, Warner would need to provide authorization to sing it public. Therefore, they would have to pay royalties for each and every time they sang it. That is why restaurants decided it was financially better for them to create their own happy birthday song instead of paying royalties every time the employees of the restaurant would sing happy birthday to a customer.
A settlement deal was also reached which provided that Warner, who still argues the song Happy Birthday does not belong in the public domain, would pay back the licensing fees they have charged over the years for up to 14 million dollars. It looks like the song Happy Birthday is back in the public domain, and will stay there. So the next time you go to a restaurant for your birthday, be sure to have them sing you the actual Happy Birthday song.
Not everyone believes that Warner/Chappell should still be collecting licensing fees for the song, and this largely shared sentiment led to the recent filing of a class action lawsuit in a New York court. In this case, Good Morning to You Productions Inc. v. Warner/Chappell Music, a New York filmmaker disputes the $1,500 she was charged to use the song in her documentary, because she alleges that the song has crossed into the public domain, and it can be freely used by anyone. Unless Warner/Chappell ends up on the favorable side of the verdict, it will continue to profit off its popular birthday song by charging licensing fees that amount to upwards of $2 million annually.
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