What is your favorite PATRIOTIC Rock & Roll song?

Me | 10/24/2015 | Me

[Paul R.]

What is your favorite patriotic Rock and Roll song?

[nonliberal]

MOJO!!

I liked Open Season. CAIR filed a complaint with the government about that song.

[smalltownslick]

I knew as soon as I saw it this was going to be a weird thread. I kept thinking rock and roll, patriotic, couldn’t come up with anything. Back in the USA was the first one that made any sense. Rock and roll, and rock, are NOT the same thing. Ooooooh, I just thought of one - God, Country and My Baby by Johnny Burnette. All American Boy - I don’t know for sure if that’s patriotic. And I have to say I liked the reference to James Brown Living in America - much later, but it really meant something. And nobody could sing God Bless America like Connie Francis. Sure I’m still missing something.

[smalltownslick]

And I know it’s an obscure album cut, but This Is My Land by Roy Orbison should knock your socks off!

[Delta 21]

Top Ten with that one!!

[aomagrat]

Dixie by Black Oak Arkansas

[chopperman]

I arrived at this thread rather late and I just can't believe that nobody has mentioned the following:

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Red White and Blue

[chicagolady]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL4RNFr58

JAMES BROWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Living in AMERICA!!

[Paleo Pete]

Gotta be Edgar Winter’s White Trash, Back in the USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyBIfgj2jrY

Had to grab the live version for Rick Derringer’s guitar solo

[max americana]

“That would be amazing. Appetite for Destruction is one of the top 5 greatest hard rock records ever.”

I bought the vinyl version of it here in Hollywood. It sounds WAY better than CD. It’s on Youtube if you want to find out how crisp it sounds...and yeah, top 3 rock album of all time and best metal album of all time according to R Stone.

[Longbow1969]

Agreed, it is/was a great album. Maybe their best, though I thought The Warning was quite good for a debut release.

[nonliberal]

Any ranking of rock records that does not have Appetite, Back in Black and Rocks in the top three is suspect.

[Fiji Hill]

Not sure all of these are rock and roll, but here's my list.

• The Voice of Free America--Jimmie Osborne (1951)

• Tennessee--Carl Perkins (1956)

• God, Country & My Baby--Johnny Burnette (1961)

• The Dawn of Correction--The Spokesmen (1965)

• The Universal Coward--Jan & Dean (1965)

• The Minutemen are Turning In Their Graves--Stonewall Jackson (1966)

• Freedom's Cause--Bill Floyd (1966)

• The Ballad of the Yellow Beret--The Beach Bums (1966)

• Take the Time--The Shangri-Las (1967)

[Mozilla]

Not everything was Rock and Roll

America The Beautiful by Ray Charles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRUjr8EVgB

In America by Charlie Daniels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kB7OR161-U

America By Simon and Garfunkel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFAoWwUwknc

The Battle Hymn Of The Republic By Johnny Cash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQhyWv-PeVE

Real American by Rick Derringer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_jHY1CXK0I

Don’t Thread On Me by The Damn Yankees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkEbqgbSqs8

[Fresh Wind]

I always liked this one...

Promised Land-Chuck Berry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkLzQiy6FvM

I left my home in Norfolk Virginia
California on my mind
I straddled that greyhound, and rode him into Raleigh
And on across Caroline

Stopped in Charlotte and bypassed Rock Hill
And we never was a minute late
We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown
Rollin’ out of Georgia state

We had motor trouble it turned into a struggle
Half way across Alabam
And that ‘hound broke down and left us all stranded
In downtown Birmingham

Right away, I bought me a through train ticket
Ridin’ ‘cross Mississippi clean
And I was on that midnight flier out of Birmingham
Smoking into New Orleans

Somebody help me get out of Louisiana
Just help me get to Houston Town
There are people there who care a little ‘bout me
And they won’t let the poor boy down

Sure as you’re born, they bought me a silk suit
Put luggage in my hands
And I woke up high over Albuquerque
On a jet to the promised land

Workin’ on a T-bone steak a la carte
Flying over to the golden state
Oh, when the pilot told me us in thirteen minutes
He would set us at the terminal gate

Swing low chariot, come down easy
Taxi to the terminal zone
Cut your engines and cool your wings
And let me make it to the telephone

Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia
Tidewater four ten o nine
Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin’
And the poor boy’s on the line

[Paul R.]

Not everything was Rock and Roll

Oh, I know! I listen to many styles of music. But I selected rock, because most people don't think of there being much patriotic content in it. And, I'd happened to play Suite Madame Blue a few days ago, and it seems to get more appropriate as I get older.

The thread made for an interesting exploration, even tho' about half of the suggestions were not what I'd call "patriotic".

:-( or :-) ?

Still, thanks, everyone! I have a few more of the suggestions to give a listen...