Happy Birthday to YOU...Mildred J Hill
Topic: USA Patriotic Songs
27 JUNE 1859 - Happy Birthday to YOU...Mildred J. Hill, American composer of "Happy Birthday to You" and "Good Morning to All" (with sister, Patty Smith Hill). Mildred Hill was a kindergarten and Sunday-school teacher, like her younger sister Patty. She moved into music, teaching, composing, performing, and specializing in the study of Negro spirituals. Hill and her sister were honored at the Chicago World's Fair for their work in the progressive education program at the experimental kindergarten, the Louisville Experimental Kindergarten School. Mildred J. Hill died in Chicago, Illinois, in 1916. She is buried with her sister in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Topic: USA Patriotic Songs

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American patriotic music owes its origins to four main wars — the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the American Civil War, and the Spanish American War. During the period prior to American independence, much of America's patriotic music was aligned with the political ambitions of the British in the new land. In 1803, the British engaged Charles Dibdin, whose music was considered a potent influence in war, to write a series of songs to "keep alive the national feelings against the French.However, after the Civil War, the sentiments of most patriotic songs were geared to rebuilding and consolidating the United States. During the Spanish-American War in the 1890s, songwriters continued to write patriotic tunes that honored America's soldiers and their victories."God Bless America", written in 1918 by Irving Berlin, is sometimes referred to as the unofficial national anthem of the United States. In 1940, Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land Is Your Land" in response to his dislike of "God Bless America"