The original Micky Mouse Club was formed in 1929. Meetings were held in movie theaters all over the U.S. The official club song was "Minnie's Yoo-Hoo."

Mildred and Patty Hill published a song in 1893 that was named "Good Morning to You.” It wasn't very popular, so they changed it a little bit and renamed it "Happy Birthday." It is the song we sing for everyone's birthday!

The first commercial radio station was WWJ in Detroit, Michigan. It started broadcasting on August 20, 1920. KDKA in Pittsburg, PA began broadcasting on August 31,1920.

Legend has it that "Nero fiddled while Rome burned." This has been proven to be false. The violin wasn't invented until the Middle Ages, which was centuries after Rome burned. It is more likely that Nero played a lyre.

The earliest musical instruments were probably the ones found in caves in France by archeologists. They were carved bones that appear to have been wind and percussion instruments dating back to about 25,000 BC.

The first words ever spoken in a feature motion picture were, "Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet!" spoken by Al Jolson in the 1927 release of The Jazz Singer.

The three most-frequently sung songs in the English language are “Happy Birthday,” “Auld Lang Syne,” and “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.”

The first record company, North American Phonograph Company, was founded in 1887.

The first stereo records were made in 1933.

Johnny Mathis is said to have become one of America’s first black millionaires. His "Greatest Hits" album was on the charts for 490 weeks - 9 1/2 years.

Between 1927 and 1935, more than 250 songs were written to honor Charles Lindbergh.

The 1994 Iowa State Fair built a life-size statue of Garth Brooks out of 250 pounds of butter.

The first Grammy Awards were given in 1959.

Julia Ward Howe, writer of the lyrics for “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” was the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

In the 1979 “Muppet Movie,” Miss Piggy’s singing voice was dubbed in by Johnny Mathis.

“Sukiyaki” is the only Japanese-language song ever to be #1 on the Billboard pop charts. The original title was “Ue O Muite Aruko” (“I Look Up When I Walk”), but executives at Pye Records changed the title to “Sukiyaki” (roughly translated, “Beef Stew”), assuming that English-speaking audiences would remember that title easier. Even so, some of the cover versions still mangled the title, calling it “Saki Yaki,” “Sukiyaka,” “Sukijaki,” “Sayonara,” and “Sukujahi.”

Liberace used the stage name “Walter Busterkeys” while making the transition from a classical pianist to a nightclub performer.

The song, “Yankee Doodle” began as a nonsense Dutch song called “Yankee Dudle Doodle Down” in the 15th century. It spread to England as a children’s song before being used to taunt Oliver Cromwell’s Protestants during the English Civil War. Finally, the British turned it on the American colonists in the same taunting vein, not realizing that they’d adopt it as a national song!

An “earworm” is a song or jingle that gets stuck in your head and you can’t get it out.

The song, “Yes, We Have No Bananas” holds the record for having sold more sheet music than any other song. It was so overplayed in 1923 that it inspired a song called, “Yes, We Have the No Bananas Blues,” which includes the line “Bananas! Bananas! I’d like to break up a million pianas!”

Former Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis wrote more than 400 songs, including “You Are My Sunshine.” Elected in 1944 and 1960, Davis is the only governor to be elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame.