I’m happy to see the old songs pass but as is requisite living in this age of instant nostalgia, I’m a bit melancholy. I can’t imagine these chains will keep singing their makeshift songs when the Cadillac of happy birthday songs, “Happy Birthday,” is available. National restaurant chains have spent countless hours screaming original, off-key songs directly into the faces of tolerant patrons looking to score a free piece of cake.Īnd now they too go the way of the dodo … hopefully. The dissolution of the Happy Birthday copyright is the correct course of action, don’t get me wrong the fact that it was ever copyrighted material is frankly shocking.įor a few years now television, tired of having to craft not only imaginative plot lines as well as catchy birthday songs, has paid to use the regular Happy Birthday song (“Who’s the Boss” notwithstanding), so I don’t imagine a sudden rush of shows prominently featuring “Happy Birthday.” Any stupider than the regular Happy Birthday song? Not in the slightest. He’s laughing and smiling, my goodness, it’s you! So look all around you until you see who, It’s somebody right in this room near you, Since most of the show’s budget was spent on Judith Light’s gigantic hair/sweaters they had no money left to line Warner/Chappell’s deep coffers, which led to the creation of this: Tony (Tony Danza) and Mona (Katherine Marie Helmond) surprised Angela (Judith Light) with a birthday song during breakfast. Warner/Chappell’s decades long draconian hold on this allegedly celebratory tune pushed the public to create other, stranger birthday songs to celebrate the occasion without dropping $700 on a 15 second ditty.Ĭase in point: The landmark 80s sitcom “Who’s the Boss?”
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