OT: Next Time you sing happy birthday

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Aug 13 17:26:06 UTC 2007


On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:54:30PM -0400, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Indeed, from Wikipedia:
> -----------------------
> Many restaurants have original, modern, corporate-developed songs that are
> used instead of the old-fashioned "Happy Birthday to You" when serving
> patrons the traditional cake on their birthdays. Originally, these songs
> were specifically developed to prevent copyright infringement and having
> to pay royalties.
> -----------------------
> Yesterday evening I had dinner at a Swiss Chalet in Richmond Hill. The
> wait staff gathered several times to sing the Swiss Chalet corporate
> birthday song. I wondered why the didn't just sing 'Happy Birthday [tm]".
> Now I know.

Of course just about anything is a better song than "Happy Birthday
[tm]" too. :)

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