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- MILESTONES, Page 88
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- 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.