The tune “Happy Birthday”, with its ill-fitting words and numbingly straightforward tune, is basically owned by a division of the media conglomeration known as AOL Time Warner. How a song as common as “Happy Birthday” ended up in the hands of a multi-national media group is just about as fascinating as the origins of the track itself. The tune of the track “Happy Birthday” is said to have been created by a lady from Kentucky named Mildred J. Hill around about 1893. [Read more...]
Popular Xmas Songs
April 10, 2011 By
It may be surprising for readers to learn that the most well liked Yuletide songs, at least as judged by the North American Society of Composers, writers and Publishers have almost nothing to do with the spiritual origins of Yuletide.
Few might be classed as the conventional Yuletide Carols with which people who celebrate Yuletide are most familiar. As an alternative in their list of the most commonly recorded songs in the 21st century, the oldest song on the list goes back to 1934, and the latest is Paul McCartney’s 1979 recording Glorious Christmastime. If you are a lover of songs like Angels, we have Heard on High or God Rest Ye, Merry Man you will feel clearly Scroogish when you see the particular list. Naturally, this list only accounts for those songs that are most recorded, not the list of those songs that resound from churches, or from normal carolers in the Yuletide season. The top 10 most well-liked Xmas songs as judged by recording frequency are: [Read more...]