Have a safe and sane Fourth of July everyone!
Even if that isn’t much fun. Dont’ know about you but if I don’t come away from the Glorious Fourth with a few second degree burns I consider it a wasted day.
No fifths on the fourth and driving.
Firelock76: The progression is- 1 Finish that wobblin water beverage.
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Have Ignition source handy
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Light the firework…
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Throw IT! ( Remember your hand grenade
class at Quantico !)
- If it gets dropped… RUN!
&n
Ya had me there for a minute - I was impressed that you used the term “Independence Day,” instead of “Fourth of July.”
Our neighbours to the north don’t celebrate the “First of July.” They celebrate Canada Day. For that matter, we don’t celebrate the “Twenty-fifth of December.”
Regardless - I hope everyone had a safe and sane holiday and didn’t get tangled up too badly in traffic…
Thank you, Mike for the “Stars and Stripes Forever” and “God Bless America.”
That work, especially, of John Phillips Sousa always thrills me.
I trust that many who listened to Kate Smith’s singing noticed the introduction that is usually missing now when this is sung. Written at a time when our country was not yet at war, the situation in Europe indicated that we should give thanks for our country and ask God’s blessings upon it.
Wanswheel, thanks for that clip of the Marine Band, “The President’s Own,” and that great performance of “The Stars and Stripes Forever.”
I got one look at the conductor, and the thought hit me, “Are they robbing the cradle to make Marine colonels? CAN’T be me getting older!”
Greetings from the Great Frozen North and a happy Fourth to all the Muricans! Didn’t the late Flip Wilson say that the reason Christopher Columbus gave for going to the new world was so they could discover Ray Charles?
“Alexander Hamilton.” Wellllll, that’s different…
Not my kind of music, but pretty clever and well done, and as long as he’s remembered, nothing to complain about.
I did like the Burr line, “I’m the damn fool that shot him!”
I’ll say this much, if the kids that like hip-hop hear this, listen to it, and learn something from it, then it’s all OK.
Happy BirthdayAmerica.
Cannot find it right now but a recording of all 5 verses of the National Anthem is inspiring as well. Helps to have the written verses.
From the above:
“…The video here offers what I believe to be the first recorded version of Carr’s original 1814 sheet music edition, using methods of historically informed performance practice to capture a sense of what an early performance might have been like. We’ve tried to recreate something akin to the first documented performance of the song on October 19, 1814 when an actor identified as a Mr. Hardinge at Baltimore’s Holliday Street Theatre sang the song as part of a bill presenting August von Kotzebue’s drama Count Benyowsky, of The Conspiracy of Kamschatka.(1)”
Thank you Zugmann, a fitting end to the holiday!
Interesting, the tempo of the music and the style of singing is very similar to a version I’ve got on a record album done by Colonial Williamsburg in 1976. Probably as close as we’ll ever come to the way it was in 1814.
Now that it is time for the Fifth, it might be appropriate to note that the tune they mention was not lifted from an “amateur musicians club”, at least not the sort of organization that comes to mind when you mention that term. Although perhaps the organization was the equivalent of some college bands when it comes time to “aspirations” of this general sort …
Here are the original words and some of the original sense. Perhaps this is an even more fitting end to the holiday… and, perhaps, inspiring one to boot.
Makes most of those other hokey national song melodies seem a bit stale, doesn’t it?
Very interesting.
I suggest the polar opposite to easily be among the most stirring, best experienced live of course in the moment, but still comes through quite well if you are not there. Jim Cornelison at the United Center for any Chicago Blackhawk game. Rousing and stunning.
Assuming that you can hear it over the roar of the crowd[:D]
Well that’s the point! You either go bonkers or you’re frozen in awe. No middle ground.
So Miningman, who does the best version of “Oh Canada,” Celine Dion or Lara Fabian?