WFMU and the Free Music Archive challenged songwriters everywhere to unseat “Happy Birthday to You” from its cultural throne by composing possible replacements.This entire birthday song repository is licensed Creative Commons Attribution, including our winning songs.
Gwen & Elyse Kapusinski are a daughter-mother team in Philadelpia, PA. The melody is an original tune that Gwen made up when she was six, soon after she started taking piano lessons. Her mom, Elyse, helped with the lyrics.