Happy Piano Birthday (Birthday/Anyone)
The piano, short for pianoforte (Italian for soft-loud), is a percussive musical instrument housed in a wood body, played when the pianist strikes one or many of 88 black & white keys. Hitting the chosen key activates a felt hammer that strikes and bounces back from tightly stretched strings inside. Invention of the piano is credited to Bartolomeo Crisofori (1655-1731) of Padua, harpsichord maker and official Keeper of the Instruments for one of ...
Happy Roamin' River Birthday (Birthday/Anyone)
"Rio Grande," a traditional 19th century sea chantey extolling not America's Southwestern waterway but a Brazilian river of the same name.
Happy Rough Ridin' Remington Birthday (Birthday/Anyone)
Painter/Illustrator/Sculptor Frederic Remington(1861-1909), consummate artist of the Old West and all varieties of Rugged Americana including on-site witnessing of T. Roosevelt's Rough Riders' charge up San Juan Hill. His work reflects his family tree's deep American roots : cousin to the founder of the gun manufacturer of the same celebrated name, distant relative of George Washington and various famous mountain men. "Happy Birthday," perhaps ...
Happy Spring Birthday (Birthday/Anyone)
"Happy Birthday," perhaps the most sung song in the English language, dates back melodically to 1893. Two sisters, Mildred Hill and Patty Smith Hill, included a classroom greeting "Good Morning To All" in a published book called "Song Stories for the Kindergarten." The lyrics now sung worldwide evolved over the next 40 years from the Hill sisters' original words to what everyone now knows as "Happy Birthday To You."
Happy Van Gogh Birthday (Birthday/Anyone)
"Happy Birthday," perhaps the most sung song in the English language, dates back melodically to 1893. Two sisters, Mildred Hill and Patty Smith Hill, included a classroom greeting "Good Morning To All" in a published book called "Song Stories for the Kindergarten." The lyrics now sung worldwide evolved over the next 40 years from the Hill sisters' original words to what everyone now knows as "Happy Birthday To You." Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh...
Happy Viennese Bakery Birthday (Birthday)
Celebrated waltz from Franz Lehar's international operetta sensation, "The Merry Widow," 1905.
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