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- <text id=89TT0019>
- <title>
- Jan. 02, 1989: Sold:Happy Birthday To You
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Jan. 02, 1989 Planet Of The Year:Endangered Earth
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 88
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- <p> SOLD. Happy Birthday to You, the four-line ditty written in
- 1893 by two Louisville teachers as a classroom greeting; by
- Birch Tree Group, Ltd., to Warner Communications (along with
- all other assets) for an estimated $25 million (considerably
- more than a song). Happy Birthday is believed to generate about
- $1 million in royalties annually. With Auld Lang Syne and For
- He's a Jolly Good Fellow, it is among the three most popular
- songs in the English language.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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