Posted on 02/15/2011 8:00:18 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter
I have started an iPOD playlist called "America".
I don’t think that song was about America’s greatness.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb6nR_kdk9w
The Battle of New Orleans, Johnny Horton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxB42cjHTGg
Johnny Reb, Johnny Horton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9CWFU2VRNo
Ballad of the Green Beret, SSgt Barry Sadler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH4-tOqLH94
Soundtrack from John Wayne Movie The Green Beret's, Miklós Rózsa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58QzTglCen8
Praise The Lord and Pass The Ammunition, Kay Kyser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJfJPxLntZU
Don't Tread on Me, Metallica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db1s-eV-Bd0
Stephen Foster:
"Old Folks at Home"
"My Old Kentucky Home"
" Oh, Susanna"
"Camptown Races"
"Turkey In the Straw"
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
"Clementine"
"I've Been Working on the Railroad"
"Sweet Betsey From Pike"
"Streets of Laredo"
"The Yellow Rose of Texas"
"Shenandoah"
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
America, by Neil Diamond
I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy, by George M. Cohan (sung by James Cagney?)
Well the eagles been flying slow, and the flag's been flying low, and a lotta people say that America's fixing to fall. But speakig just for me, and some people from Tennesse,we got a thing or two to tell ya all.This lady may have stumbled, but she ain't ever fell. And if our enemies don't believe that, they can all go straight to hell.We're gonna put her feet back on righteousness and then, God bless America again. And you never did think that it would ever happen again in America did you? you never did think that we'd ever get together again. well we damn sure fooled ya. we're walking real proud and we're talking real proud again here in America.Ya never did think that it would ever happen again.
Some favorites are
“The Battle of New Orleans”, Johnny Horton;
“Erie Canal Song”’ or “Low Bridge”’ by Thomas Allen, 1905;
“John Henry”’ a steel driving man;
“Red River Valley”
“Old folks at home” aka “sewanee river”’ Stephen Foster, 1851
“Sixteen Tons” sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford
“God Bless America as done by Kate Smith!”
You’ll even see The Gipper toward the end of this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnQDW-NMaRs
I love Barry Sadler’s music. One of my favorite’s is Letter from Vietnam. He also sings a salute to the nurses over in Vietnam which is another good one. I have the cd which has these songs plus more in my car. When I go on trips, I listen to them.
Add “ Pecos Bill” to that list. I remember singing part of it.
Another I almost forgot ... Ghost Riders in the Sky with the bull whip!!! Vaughn Monroe's version was cool too!Imagine a Justin Beiber singing this? Pfft!
I love music from that era. I even found an internet station that plays that kind of music. It is www.bostonpete.com. They have all kinds but I like the old cowboy westerns with O. J. Sikes. Check it out. I do not like music from after the 60’s. I also like old 1940’s war music. Thanks for the links.
Thank you for the link. I’ll explore it. ;)
Don’t forget to add some Sousa to the mix!
I think you will like it. He has played music which I had never heard of by singers I had never heard of. If I am going to be on my desktop for a while, I listen to OJ.
And who has John Philip Sousa?
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