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by goodness
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I read the story. It claims to be "a product of a highly focused, laborious effort to write a song that was extremely simple to sing yet musically interesting and emotionally expressive,
undertaken by a composer and an educator who happened to be sisters." I still don't really buy that it was "laborious effort." And I don't think the song is popular because of some fantastic musical merits. If the song was still "good morning to all" then it would be just another song. The only reason it has any monetary value is because it became associated with birthdays. |
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Having read accounts of said effort, I wonder what you think qualifies as laborious. They did days of testing with groups of kids.
> And I don't think the song is popular because of some fantastic musical merits.
And no one said that it has fantastic musical merits. Instead, they say that it has fantastic kid music merits.
That's a hard market to crack. Lots of people try to write Barney, but few actually pull it off.
There are lots of songs that could have become the standard. That one did, by design and labor.