[HotKat]

1950’s and 60’s American musicals . . . Olklahoma, South Pacific, Camelot, Brigadoon, Camelot ❤️

[MayflowerMadam]

Great list! I’d add “The Music Man”.

[imardmd1]

And in the 1940s, "White Christmas" from the Broadway hit "Holiday Inn"; a song that my school classes sang in the years of the Second World War, while we had personally known local service members fighting to their wounds and death in the Southern Pacific, with our little hearts grieving for them.

The song written by the great tunesmith Irving Berlin, released on July 30, 1942 just before the Marines landed on Guadalcanal to stop and reverse the Japanese advance. My enrollment in the first grade of our country school had begun. Songs sung and prayers were offered at the beginning of every school day,led by our teacher.

There was no piano. Everyone learned to sing accurately, on tune, no preachers or denominational demarcations present at all. All hearts were together in unity, begun with the Salute, arms raised, to our beloved Flag of the United States of America.

Our nation is now at the decision point because no one born after the conclusion of that conflagration can even begin to understand what happened then, with the whole populace united behind our united effort to overcome the Satanic forces behind the Axis tyrants (and yes, the Stalinist Communists as well).

And those were the years that I first recognized how much I loved our girls, with Ramona Strickland of my class leading them all, actually dreaming of her! That was my kind of America.