Happy Birthday to You
~ Song
Relationships
| writer: | Mildred J. Hill Patty Hill |
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| publisher: | Keith Prowse Music Warner/Chappell (Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.) |
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| SecondHandSongs: | https://secondhandsongs.com/work/169544 [info] |
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| Wikidata: | Q167545 [info] |
| referred to in medleys: | Comedy in Music, Part I (order: 5) |
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| later translated versions: | Zum Geburtstag viel Glück お誕生日のうた ハッピー・バースデー・トゥ・ユー (Japanese Version of Happy Birthday to You) 生日歌 祝你生日快乐 |
| is based on: | Good Morning to All |
| is the basis for: | 'Happy Birthday' Variations Birthday Song Happy Birthday but 13 classical composers are fighting over the last slice of cake Lornaderek Prelude on 'felicem diem natalem' Variations on a Well-Known Theme Variations on Happy Birthday (Happy Birthday Variations) エッビーナースデイ |
| arrangements: | Happy Birthday! |
| music quoted in and lyrics quoted in: | Birthday Bitch |
Recordings
| Date | Title | Attributes | Artist | Length |
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| recordings | ||||
| 1943-04-15 | Happy Birthday to You (extended version) (stereo) | The M-G-M Studio Orchestra | 0:37 | |
| 1945-05-18 | Happy Birthday to You | instrumental | Bunk's Brass Band | 1:06 |
| 1963-09-07 | Happy Birthday Dear Saturday Club (live, 1963‐09‐07: Playhouse Theatre, Manchester, UK) | cover and live | The Beatles | 0:34 |
| 1967 – 1968 | Happy Birthday | cover | The Idle Race | 0:23 |
| 1967 – 1968 | Happy Birthday | cover | The Idle Race | 0:23 |
| 1968-08-03 | Happy Birthday to You (alternate stereo mix) | cover | The Monkees | 1:06 |
| 1972-05-07 | Next Time You See Me / Happy Birthday to You | cover and live | Grateful Dead | 6:23 |
| 1973-02-19 | Happy Birthday to You | instrumental | Stan Kenton and His Orchestra | 5:38 |
| 1975-02 | Birthday Tribute to Grand Old Opry (Happy Birthday to You) | cover and live | Bill Anderson | ?:?? |
| 1981-12-01 | Happy Birthday | cover and live | Jaco Pastorius | 1:48 |
| 1983-07-24 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU (live, 1983-07-24: Yomiuri Land EAST, Inagi, Tokyo, Japan) | live | 河合奈保子 | ?:?? |
| 1984-06-07 | Happy Birthday (chant) (live, 1984‐06‐07: First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA) | cover and live | [audience] | 0:35 |
| 1984-06-07 | Happy Birthday (interlude) (live, 1984-06-07: First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA) | cover and live | Prince and The Revolution | 2:27 |
| 1985 | Happy Birthday (live, 1984-06-15: Worcester Centrum, Worcester, MA, USA) | cover and live | Waylon Jennings | 0:41 |
| 1986-06-07 | Happy Birthday (live, 1986‐06‐07: Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI, USA) | live | Prince | 1:12 |
| 1986-06-07 | Happy Birthday (live, 1986‐06‐07: Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI, USA) | cover and live | Prince | 1:14 |
| 1986-06-07 | Happy Birthday (live, 1986‐06‐07: Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI, USA) | cover and live | Prince | ?:?? |
| 1986-06-07 | Happy Birthday to You (live, 1986‐06‐07: Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI, USA) | cover and live | Prince | 1:17 |
| 1986-06-07 | Happy Birthday to You (live, 1986‐06‐07: Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI, USA) | cover and live | Prince and The Revolution | 1:07 |
| 1986-09-10 | MC (みんなでHAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU) (live, 1986-09-10: NHK Hall, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan) | live | 斉藤由貴 | 1:35 |
| 1987-05-13 | Happy Birthday | live | Gil Evans Orchestra | 1:08 |
| 1987-08-03 | Happy Birthday (live, 1987-08-03: The Stone, San Francisco, CA, USA) | live | Mercyful Fate | 1:16 |
| 1988-07-24 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU (live, 1988-07-24: Yomiuri Land EAST, Inagi, Tokyo, Japan) | live | 河合奈保子 | ?:?? |
| 1988-07-26 | Happy Birthday Cat (live, 1988‐07‐26: Camden Palace, London, UK) | cover and live | Prince | 2:19 |
| 1988-07-26 | Happy Birthday to You (live, 1988‐07‐26: Camden Palace, London, UK) | cover and live | Prince | 1:03 |
| 1989-02-05 | Happy Birthday to You (live, 1989‐02‐05: Tokyo Dome, Bunkyō, Japan) | cover and live | Prince | 0:33 |
| 1989-10-07 | Happy Birthday to You (live bootleg, 1989-10-07: Bates College, Lewiston, ME, USA) | cover and live | Phish | 1:30 |
| 1990-02-10 | Happy Birthday to You (live bootleg, 1990-02-10: 23 East Caberet, Ardmore, PA, USA) | cover and live | Phish | 2:50 |
| 1991-05-17 | Fluffhead -> Happy Birthday to You (live bootleg, 1991-05-17: Campus Club, Providence, RI, USA) | live | Phish | 14:20 |
| 1991-05-17 | Happy Birthday to You > Big Black Furry Creatures from Mars (live bootleg, 1991-05-17: Campus Club, Providence, RI, USA) | cover and live | Phish | 5:22 |
| 1991-07-26 | The Lizards > Happy Bithday to You (live bootleg, 1991-07-26: The Georgia Theatre, Atlanta, GA, USA) | cover and live | Phish | 12:04 |
| 1991-08-03 | Happy Birthday to You (live bootleg, 1991-08-03: Amy's Farm, Auburn, ME, USA) | cover and live | Phish | 1:59 |
| 1992-03-04 | [Happy Birthday] (live, 1992‐03‐04: Bunka Taiikukan, Yokohama, Japan) | cover and live | Yes | 0:42 |
| 1994-02-23 – 1994-02-24 | Happy Birthday | instrumental and live | Juilliard Orchestra | 0:49 |
| 1995-01 | [Clarence imp.] / Happy Birthday | cover | Bruce Springsteen | 1:16 |
| 1995-05-07 | Happy Birthday, Mick/ Lover, You Should've Come Over (live, 1995-05-07: King Cat Theater, Seattle, WA, USA) | cover, live and medley | Jeff Buckley | 8:05 |
| 1997-01-09 | Happy Birthday | live | The Crowd | 1:24 |
| 1997-01-09 | Happy Birthday (live, 1997‐01‐09: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA) | live | David Bowie | 1:33 |
| 1997-01-09 | Happy Birthday (live, 1997‐01‐09: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA) | live | David Bowie | 1:32 |
| 1997-01-09 | Happy Birthday / All the Young Dudes (live, 1997‐01‐09: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA) | live | David Bowie feat. Billy Corgan | 5:07 |
| 1997-01-09 | Happy Birthday to Bowie | live | David Bowie | ?:?? |
| 1997-02 | Happy Birthday | cover | Giora Feidman | 3:55 |
| 2001-01-13 | Happy Birthday | cover and live | Foo Fighters | 1:11 |
| 2001-01-13 | Happy Birthday (live, 2001-01-14: Live Rock in Rio 3: Rock in Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) | cover and live | Foo Fighters | 1:32 |
| 2002-01-13 | Happy Birthday | Norine Burgess, Benjamin Butterfield, Mary Lou Fallis, Christopher Newton, Mark Pedrotti, Monica Whicher, Che Ann Loewen | 1:04 | |
| 2002-10 | 零時十分 | cover and live | 林子祥 | 3:15 |
| 2003-01-22 | Happy Birthday (live at the Forum, London, UK 1/22/03) | cover and live | The Flaming Lips | 5:32 |
| 2003-03 | Happy Birthday / Blue Bossa (live) | live | Michel Camilo | 3:53 |
| 2003-07-19 | Happy Birthday (Stone) (live, 2003-07-19: Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City, Mexico) | cover and live | Pearl Jam | 3:12 |
| 2005-03-19 | Happy Birthday to Stephen Sondheim | live | [anonymous] | ?:?? |
| 2006-07-20 | Happy Birthday | cover and live | Pearl Jam | 2:47 |
| 2007-07-27 | Improvisation on "Happy Birthday" for Lily Maisky | cover, instrumental and live | Gabriela Montero | 4:04 |
| 2007-09-29 | [band introductions] / Happy Birthday (live, 2007-09-29: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, USA) | cover and live | Bright Eyes | 1:08 |
| 2008-03-15 | [Happy Birthday John] (live, 2008-03-15: The Middle East, Cambridge, MA, USA) | cover and live | The Mountain Goats | 0:26 |
| 2008-04-05 – 2008-04-06 | Happy Birthday (live, 2008-04: Metropol, Vienna, Austria) | cover and live | Insingizi & Peter Hofbauer | 2:06 |
| 2009-05-22 | Happy Birthday to You (live, 2009-05-22: Carling Apollo Manchester, Manchester, UK) | cover and live | Morrissey | 0:36 |
| 2009-11-22 | Happy Birthday (live, 2009‐11‐22: HSBC Arena, Buffalo, NY, USA) | cover and live | Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band | 1:03 |
| 2010-03-31 | 0331medley (live, 2010-03-31: 日本武道館, Tokyo, Japan) | live and medley | 坂本真綾 feat. 菅野よう子 | 11:28 |
| 2011-02-19 | [some dude gets her to sing him Happy Birthday] (live, 2011-02-19: Bar Bodega, Wellington, New Zealand) | live | Amanda Palmer | 4:28 |
| 2012-09-22 | Happy Birthday to You (live, 2012‐09‐22: MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, USA) | cover and live | Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band | 2:23 |
| 2013-04-27 | Happy Birthday (live, 2013-04-27: The Independent, San Francisco, CA, USA) | cover and live | Rupa & the April Fishes | 0:34 |
| 2013-06-21 | Marquee Moon / Happy Birthday to You (live, 2013-06-21: MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA) | cover and live | Wilco | ?:?? |
| 2013-07-26 | Happy Birthday | cover and live | Phish | 2:59 |
| 2014-11-19 | [outro] | cover and live | Mavis Staples (with full ensemble) | 0:54 |
| 2015-06-07 | Stay With Me (Faces) (live, 2015: Rock am Ring, Germany) | cover and live | Foo Fighters | ?:?? |
| 2015-08-21 | Happy Birthday | cover and live | Phish | 2:03 |
| 2015-12-31 | Happy Birthday | cover and live | Phish | 2:10 |
| 2016-04-18 | [Happy Birthday Matt Douglas] (live, 2016-04-18: City Winery, New York, NY, USA) | cover and live | The Mountain Goats | 2:46 |
| 2016-06-25 | Happy Birthday (live, 2016-06-25: Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL, USA) | cover and live | Phish | 1:32 |
| 2018-02-15 | Happy Birthday Luke (2018-02-15: Octave, Covington, KY) | cover and live | Goose | 1:06 |
| 2018-12-04 | Happy Birthday (Live) | cover, instrumental and live | Martial Solal | 6:43 |
| 2021-08-01 | (banter - Happy Birthday to You - Mildred J. Hill & Patty Hill cover) (2021-08-01: Lollapalooza Festival, Chicago, IL, USA) | cover and live | Foo Fighters | 2:33 |
| 2023-07-15 | Happy Birthday (live, 2023‐07‐15: The Soap Factory, San Diego, CA, USA) | cover and live | Me First and the Gimme Gimmes | 1:37 |
| 2023-07-23 | Happy Birthday | acappella, cover and live | Phish | 1:24 |
| Birthday Medley | cover | Eastside Connection | 7:50 | |
| Crowd / Happy Birthday / Band Chatter (live, 1984-06-15: Worcester Centrum, Worcester, MA, USA) | cover and live | Waylon Jennings | 3:18 | |
| Crowd / Happy Birthday / Chatter (live, 1984-06-15: Worcester Centrum, Worcester, MA, USA) | cover and live | Waylon Jennings | 3:46 | |
| H.B. Song / ??? | cover | Ty Segall | 1:59 | |
| Happy birthday | cover | Sistergold | 1:38 | |
| Happy Birthday | cover | Fats & His Cats | 1:56 | |
| Happy Birthday | Delia Derbyshire | 0:37 | ||
| Happy Birthday | partial | Father Guido Sarducci | ?:?? | |
| Happy Birthday | Mildred J. Hill | ?:?? | ||
| Happy Birthday | live | Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra | 1:43 | |
| Happy Birthday | cover | [unknown] | 0:45 | |
| Happy Birthday | cover | The Beatles | 0:32 | |
| Happy Birthday | cover | The Idle Race | 0:23 | |
| Happy Birthday (live, 2004: Tequila Bob's, USA) | acappella, live and partial | Many Worlds | 0:50 | |
| Happy Birthday | cover and instrumental | Disasterpeace | 1:23 | |
| Happy Birthday | cover | The Idle Race | 0:25 | |
| Happy Birthday ‘Pinky & Perky’ Style | cover | [unknown] | 0:17 | |
| Happy Birthday (alternative mix) | cover, instrumental and partial | [unknown] | 0:16 | |
| Happy Birthday (Cheers Jan!) | cover and instrumental | The Subversive Elements | 0:43 | |
| Happy Birthday Bill / Let It Bleed | partial | The Rolling Stones | 6:51 | |
| Happy Birthday Charlie | cover and partial | The Rolling Stones | 1:14 | |
| Happy Birthday Instrumental | cover and instrumental | [unknown] | 0:15 | |
| Happy Birthday Joan! | live | The Dead | 2:36 | |
| Happy Birthday Mick / Gimme Shelter | live and partial | The Rolling Stones | 6:39 | |
| Happy Birthday Mr. President | cover | Marilyn Monroe | 1:45 | |
| Happy Birthday Mr. President | cover | Marilyn Monroe | 0:45 | |
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