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Songs about the greatness of America
My Keyboard | 15-Feb-2011 | gov_bean_ counter

Posted on 02/15/2011 8:00:18 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter

I have started an iPOD playlist called "America".


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: americathegreat
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Another good patriotic song is Yankee Rose by Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra (1927) You can download it here. The Revelers, a vocal group, also had a bestselling recording of the tune in 1927.
21 posted on 02/15/2011 8:52:12 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I don’t think that song was about America’s greatness.


22 posted on 02/15/2011 9:02:54 PM PST by ILoveMyFreedom
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To: gov_bean_ counter
The Fightin Side of me, Merle Haggard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHAFmFsb9XM

Bomb bomb bomb iran
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

23 posted on 02/15/2011 9:20:27 PM PST by fso301
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Hardly contemporary, I doubt if children today learn any of these songs like we did in elementary school...

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"

24 posted on 02/15/2011 9:44:15 PM PST by Daffynition ( Live EACH DAY as if it were your last, but EXPECT that there still may be a tomorrow.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

America, by Neil Diamond
I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy, by George M. Cohan (sung by James Cagney?)


25 posted on 02/15/2011 9:44:30 PM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Take This Job and Shove It - Johnny Paystub
26 posted on 02/15/2011 9:48:49 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
There are some superb choices listed. I'll add one that's a favorite: “Tell Me” by Terry Kath. It was used in the closing of the “Miami Vice” TV series as well as a movie in the early 1970s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DV3uKeUmBM

27 posted on 02/15/2011 9:52:05 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: gov_bean_ counter
John Prime
28 posted on 02/15/2011 9:52:40 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
In America by Charlie Daniels...

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.

29 posted on 02/15/2011 9:54:07 PM PST by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: fso301

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


30 posted on 02/15/2011 10:16:25 PM PST by Mazey
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To: freedumb2003; gov_bean_ counter; RedMDer

“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


31 posted on 02/15/2011 10:29:30 PM PST by Semper Mark (Vlad Tepes was a piker.)
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To: fso301

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.


32 posted on 02/15/2011 10:46:40 PM PST by MamaB
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To: Daffynition

Add “ Pecos Bill” to that list. I remember singing part of it.


33 posted on 02/15/2011 10:50:47 PM PST by MamaB
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'The Ballad of Pecos Bill' by Roy Rogers and the Sons of Pioneers....."he got a stick and dug the Rio Grande." It is unimaginable to me that kids today do not grow up with Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, The Lone Ranger, et al.

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!

34 posted on 02/15/2011 11:38:23 PM PST by Daffynition ( Live EACH DAY as if it were your last, but EXPECT that there still may be a tomorrow.)
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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.


35 posted on 02/15/2011 11:42:53 PM PST by MamaB
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To: MamaB

Thank you for the link. I’ll explore it. ;)


36 posted on 02/15/2011 11:51:47 PM PST by Daffynition ( Live EACH DAY as if it were your last, but EXPECT that there still may be a tomorrow.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Don’t forget to add some Sousa to the mix!


37 posted on 02/15/2011 11:55:59 PM PST by YankeeinOkieville (Obamanation [oh-bom-uh-nay-shuhn] n. -- ignorance and arrogance in the highest offices)
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Brooks and Dunn- only in America
38 posted on 02/16/2011 12:01:22 AM PST by smokingfrog ( BORN free - taxed to DEATH (and beyond) ...)
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To: Daffynition

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.


39 posted on 02/16/2011 12:02:45 AM PST by MamaB
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue played by Leonard Bernstein

And who has John Philip Sousa?

40 posted on 02/16/2011 12:05:04 AM PST by Daffynition ( Live EACH DAY as if it were your last, but EXPECT that there still may be a tomorrow.)
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