Two final patriotic musical videos, because it’s still the holiday weekend for some of us:
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(Thanks to commentor Brad Hanon for the Etheridge link!)
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Two final patriotic musical videos, because it’s still the holiday weekend for some of us:
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(Thanks to commentor Brad Hanon for the Etheridge link!)
by DougJ| 134 Comments
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A bunch of people in the Star Spangled Banner thread mentioned that they thought the national anthem should be America the Beautiful (I mostly agree). I’m not so crazy about the Ray Charles version everyone loves, but I found this bizarre celebrity singalong version of it, led by Willie Nelson, part of a 9/11 fundraiser to be touching. I remember watching it at the time.
Two other American songs I like that have, to me, a national anthem feel are “Amazing Grace” and “Lift Every Voice” (sometimes called “the black national anthem), but I don’t know of a version of either that I like better than the others. Is there a version of either that any of you especially like?
by DougJ| 66 Comments
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As I’ve mentioned before, this is by far my favorite rendition of the national anthem. Tell me what yours is in the comments, if you have one.
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The Battlefield Band does a version of ‘Fortunate Son’ with bagpipes, but I can’t find it on YouTube, and besides, there’s no sound on this old laptop. So y’all get the Braille version.
The Spousal Unit and I are gonna watch the fireworks over Lake Champlain tonight. We first started dating over a Fourth of July weekend thirty-two years ago, so we’re sentimentalists that way.
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Since it’s the weekend, finally…
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(Note to the purists: Yes, the ‘song’ is sufficiently bad that I considered using the tag ‘Assholes’ instead of ‘Music’. But the visuals made me LOL. And if you look at the last couple posts… there are some things innocent blog-readers shouldn’t be greeted by, first thing on a summer morning.)
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Thanks to commentor Eemom for the following “In Memory of the Former General McChrystal” tribute:
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This, on the other hand, is from me to commentor Arguingwithsignposts, who needs to learn not to be snotty to old people…
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I’d claim this one was for the Torchwood / Dr. Who fans, but actually I just forgot to run it last weekend for Lily’s Adoption Day.
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Gardening plans for the weekend have been disrupted, because the Spousal Unit and I have tickets to see the BBC’s “Walking with Dinosaurs” arena show in Worcester tomorrow.
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