The most-covered song on Setlist.fm is also the most recognizable song in history which is quite a feat since it’s only 130 years old, American, and written by two sisters.
Mildred and Patti Hill lived and worked in Kentucky in the late 1800s. Mildred was pianist and her sister Patti worked with kindergartners.
Together they wrote “Happy Birthday To You,” and first performed it in a two-room wooden cabin that’s now in the National Registry due to their ditty but also because decades later then-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt broke the brittle floor and autographed a chunk as an apology.
Is it rock n roll to play the Happy Birthday song in concert? The Flaming Lips, Los Lobos, and Pearl Jam seem to think so.
Harry Styles sure seems to. The former boy bander has sung the song 50 times over 269 shows. That means about one in every five show contains Harry celebrating someone’s live debut.
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