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It is time for a NEW birthday song. We can always use a new birthday song! The Beatles offered theirs, which was really groovy for the Sixties. But when was the last time there was a new birthday song?

Over here at No Evil productions, we have been busy (maybe TOO busy) thinking about the Happy Birthday song but besides the legal copyright issues and the history of the tune that the world knows as THE Happy Birthday song, it got us all thinking about, well, Happy Birthday, and the fun we could have with this kind of music.

There's our very own 'appy 'appy Birthday and the Arrogant-Worm's Once a Year we celebrate...Happy Birthday. We are playing with all kinds of tunes and lyrics, like Stuff Your Face with Cake and Happy Birthday, you're Old.

I was quite inspired by reading Patty Hill's account about her and her sister creating the songs for their "Song Stories for the Kindergarten" and how simplifying the melodies was the essence to even the youngest child being able to learn these songs. Music is the language of the heart and there is a magic to how they capture our minds and spirits. It can be argued that music speaks the basic language of our brains and transcends all language; communicating much more than any words. I think this is why Patty Hill chose to simply repeat a simple line, "Good morning to You"; and how it was natural for the young children to sing the words "happy birthday to you" and any other variation to match the occasion.

Posted by photocartoonist at June 5, 2005 11:12 AM