Happy birthday to you! Everyone knows the traditional birthday song. But did you know that there are countless other songs about birthdays that are reflective and fun for celebrating your big day?

Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill were two sisters known for creating one of the world’s most famous songs, Happy Birthday to You. Though they did not become pop stars, their musical work shaped early ...

Birthdays are complicated — some people love them, others try to ignore ’em completely. If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that there’s no shortage of great birthday songs out there. There ...

On Tuesday a judge ruled that “Happy Birthday”—y’know, the song—is now in the public domain. U.S. District Court Judge George F. King declared that there was no evidence that the sisters who wrote the ...

Every 5-year-old knows it. It is the most frequently sung song in the English language, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, surpassing the works of Bach, Beethoven and the Beatles, says ...

When Jennifer Nelson set out a few years ago to make a film about one of the most famous songs in history, she knew one thing for sure: She would have to pay if she wanted to use the song itself. As a ...