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Links from here on please, to keep the thread from getting too slow.
Cheech
Neil Diamond
SPK’s listening to this.
The Boss
Lakota Thunder
Links from here on please, to keep the thread from getting too slow.
Cheech
Neil Diamond
SPK’s listening to this.
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I will lean more towards the allegorical:
Here is one of Styx’s best and least-appreciated efforts – Suite Madame Blue – which if you listen to lyrics closely, is really about America. When the raw electric guitar comes in with the power chord riff at about 5:10, it always just blows me away…..
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James Cagney.
Born on the fourth of July (or for many years he and everyone else thought he was),
Louis Armstrong: jazz from birth to bop.
1. Louis Armstrong: Saint James Infirmary(1928)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMbRV5d7TeY
2. Louis Armstrong:Dinah (1933)
his first film clip- from Copenhagen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhVdLd43bDI
3. Ella and Louis (54 min. audio)
an album worth sampling, if you haven’t already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEb4HzgILUU
4 . Armstrong in Berlin: Black and Blue(1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LDPUfbXRLM
5. Armstrong Bell Telephone Hour bio/interview (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7OyJbgHmuQ
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1.Buffy Sainte-Marie: Now that the Buffalo’s Gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnZVIluWuq4
2.John Fogarty: I’m No Fortunate Son (live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5CchLz45fw
It’s for more than Vietnam.
3. Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, and Steven Sondheim:
“America” from West Side Story -(film clip)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6wo2wpT2k
that’s it for me 🙂
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Here’s a Robert Earl Keen…,
appropriately titled, “Fourth of July”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM7KhW3iHuM&feature=kp
Some obvious ones —
I think I’ve posted Jackson Browne’s For America on prior July 4s, but it is my goto July 4 song, so here it is again.
And Mellencamp’s Pink Houses
Merle & Willie.