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Jan. 24, 2001 - Bill Cooper
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Salute To american Patriotic Music
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Ladies and gentlemen, tonight's program is a salute to the patriotic music of America.
Ladies and gentlemen, tonight's program is a salute to the patriotic music of America.
That brief selection you just heard is from a very rare album.
It was released in the 1950s by Child Craft Encyclopedia and is called Patriotic Songs
and Marches for Children.
I I recently encountered a public school where the children no longer recite the Pledge of Allegiance at all.
Twice a week, the principal reads the Pledge of Allegiance over the intercom into the classrooms.
But the children are not encouraged to stand by the side of their desks, place their hand over their heart, and pledge the flag.
This simply is not done.
And I thought it would be appropriate, given the state of the nation today, to collect some of this wonderful patriotic American music and some of the stories about it in an episode of The Hour of the Time, if for no other reason than to make it available to our children later on, so they can remember these things and appreciate our great musical heritage which celebrates our freedom.
I'd like to open this evening's program with a rousing rendition of Yankee Doodle.
The irony of Yankee Doodle, the first great American popular song, and still a popular favorite, is that it may have been conceived as a mockery of the American colonial soldiers.
One of the most common legends about the tune attributes its authorship to a surgeon attached to the British Army at Albany during the French and Indian Wars, who was so bemused by the ragamuffin appearance of the colonial troops attached to his regiment that he composed this mocking little ditty sometime in the 1750s.
It soon became a popular British taunt, and even the colonials took to singing it, not realizing that the joke was on them.
Supposedly, when Colonel Hugh Percy's troops marched out of Boston in April, 1775, on their way to Lexington and Concord, they kept step to the strains of Yankee Doodle.
But the Colonials had the last laugh.
As the British beat a hasty retreat, the victorious Americans followed, singing a gleeful rendition of the tunes.
This arrangement is performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra.
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The close ties between Great Britain and the United States have long been strengthened by one unassailable link.
God Save the Queen and America share the same tune.
Though its melodic origins are obscure, by 1745, the British version had already become England's national anthem.
Then it was God Save Great George, Our King.
By the time of the Revolution, The columnists were making up all sorts of patriotic variations.
God Save George Washington, Our Thirteen States, America.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston
minister for a Children's Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
And you'll whisper the peace that came from God who peace did give and show.
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
And what a wonderful day, and what a great place, and what a joyous day, the night of peace.
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister for a Children's
Fourth of July celebration.
Amen.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave Morton Gould.
His brief symphonic work, American Salute, which he wrote in the early 1940s, is a brilliantly orchestrated version of the Civil War song, When Johnny Comes Marching Home.
One of the finest from our legacy of American popular airs.
The tune is unusual in its minor quality, which gives a bittersweet tang to the martial phrases.
Gould has accented the bittersweet by making it brilliant and accented the sardonic by making it snappy.
The American salute, a cross between a concert overture and a symphonic march, is in the
form of a theme and variations, with the theme always recognizable and the mood always stirring.
The American salute, a cross between a concert overture and a symphonic march, is in the
form of a theme and variations, with the theme always recognizable and the mood always stirring.
The American salute, a cross between a concert overture and a symphonic march, is in the
form of a theme and variations, with the theme always recognizable and the mood always stirring.
The American salute, a cross between a concert overture and a symphonic march, is in the
form of a theme and variations, with the theme always recognizable and the mood always stirring.
© transcript Emily Beynon ♪♪
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So, I'm going to go ahead and get started.
Most modern day listeners probably know American Patrol through the swing version by Glenn Miller and his orchestra
that was first popularized in 1942.
But the piece had been around for more than 50 years before the trombonist adapted it.
Written for piano by Frank W. Meacham in 1885, it was soon orchestrated and became a favorite at concerts of the military bands so common around the turn of the century.
One reason could well have been Meacham's inclusion of several familiar and beloved American themes, including Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, Dixie, and Yankee Doodle in the fabric of the piece.
After Miller's instrumental success with the tune, lyricist Edgar Leslie, who also wrote the words for For Me and My Gal, Among My Souvenirs, and many other songs, added the words that turned it into the World War II work entitled We Must Be Vigilant.
This is American Patrol.
You're welcome, I have tears.
I'm glad you're here.
Irving Berlin wrote God Bless America during World War I for Yip Yip Yap Hank, an all-soldier
show that he created at Camp Yabank on Long Island, New York.
But he cut it from the score because he didn't think it was appropriate for the scene in which it was to be sung.
It lay neglected in his songwriter's trunk for 20 years until Kate Smith, planning a radio program for Armistice Day, Asked him to write a new patriotic song for her.
Berlin tried, but was unhappy with all of his efforts.
Then he remembered the song he had written in 1918.
Kate sang it on the radio for the first time on November the 10th, 1938, and it met with overwhelming enthusiasm.
The following year, Berlin assigned all of the royalties to the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America, proceeds they continue to receive today.
His reason?
He didn't want to capitalize on this expression of gratitude that he, as an immigrant, felt for the United States.
This is God Bless America sung by Kate Smith.
God Bless America, Land that I love.
God Bless America, Land that I love.
To the prairies, to the oceans I would go.
God bless America, my home sweet home.
to fight with all.
God bless America, my home sweet home.
God bless America, land that I love,
that be kinder and brighter to the night and life from above.
From the mountains to the prairies to the oceans wide and full,
God bless America, my home sweet home.
From the mountains to the prairies to the oceans wide and full,
God bless America, my home sweet home.
God bless America, my home sweet home.
As the Austrian composer Johann Strauss Jr.
is called the Waltz King, So, and for equal reason, is America's own John Philip Sousa, known as the March King.
And if any one march offers explanation for that title, it must surely be his masterpiece, The Stars and Stripes Forever.
Sousa composed it while returning by ship from Europe, swept up in a surge of patriotic nostalgia and guided, he said, by divine inspiration.
The three themes of the final trio were meant to typify the three sections of the United States.
The broad melody, or main theme, represents the North, the famous piccolo obbligato is the South, and the bold countermelody of the trombones recalls the West.
Sousa penned the piece on Christmas Day, 1896, presumably in his hotel suite in New York
after the boat had docked.
good will of God.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
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so so
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The stirring march anchors away.
was actually composed for a football game, although a naval one at that, and for 20 years was associated only with football.
The game was the 1906 Army-Navy Encounter, and the composer was Charles A. Zimmerman, the musical director of the Naval Academy.
The lyricist was Alfred H. Miles, a member of the Academy's class of 1907.
In 1926, the year the song was officially adopted by the Navy, Another midshipman, Royal Lovell, wrote additional words for it.
This is Anchors Aweigh for the U.S.
Navy.
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose
O say can you see by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose
broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say can you see by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose
broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Thank you.
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John Philip Sousa was widely thought to have composed The Caissons Go Rolling Along, a tribute to the artillerymen who hit the dusty trail as the caissons go rolling along.
The attribution was due to the publication in 1918 of the U.S.
Field Artillery March listing the March King as composer.
Actually, Sousa's version was only an arrangement of a march that had been composed 11 years earlier by Edmund L. Gruber.
A career Army officer for a reunion in the Philippine Islands of two long-separated units of the 5th Field Artillery Regiment.
A post-World War II adaptation turned Gruber's tune into The Army Goes Rolling Along,
which was subsequently designated the official song of the United States Army.
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literature is that Jacques Offenbach,
who first put the champagne bubbles into Parisian comic opera,
was responsible for the music of the Marines' hymn.
Of course, Offenbach didn't call it that.
when he wrote it for an operetta entitled Jean-Xavier de Brabant.
Apparently around 1918, an operetta-loving Leatherneck put the tune and its now-familiar words saluting the United States Marines together.
The two references in the opening lines are to Marine victories.
The Halls of Martha Zuma celebrates the Mexican War of 1846 to 1848, and the Shores of Tripoli refers to the four-year military action against North African Barbary pirates that ended in 1805.
The pirates were not only the first to attack the island, but also the first to attack
the island.
The pirates were not only the first to attack the island, but also the first to attack the
island.
The most recent of the classic United States military songs is one that was known to every
child growing up in America during World War II as, Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder.
It was written in 1939 by Robert M. Crawford, a member of the music faculty at Princeton, for a contest sponsored by Liberty Magazine to find a song for the newly formed Army Air Corps, and was known at that time as the Army Air Corps Song.
In accordance with the changes the years have brought, the Song and the Corps are now known as the U.S.
Air Force.
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So, in 1893, she attended the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and then traveled on to Colorado Springs.
One day she ventured to the top of nearby Pikes Peak.
She was overcome by the view from the summit, and that night wrote the first draft of a poem America the Beautiful.
It was published two years later in a magazine called The Congregationalist.
In 1913, her poem was set to music to a melody written in the 1880s by one Samuel A. Ward of Newark, New Jersey for the hymn, O Mother Dear Jerusalem.
So stirring and popular was the resulting song that it was serious competition for the Star Spangled Banner when a national anthem was finally selected in 1931.
in 1931. This is America the Beautiful.
Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the brook and plain,
Oh America!
America!
From cherry trees on the hill, And from thy wood with brown moon,
From sea to shining sea.
O beautiful for weary feet, O sturdy flesh and cells,
O power of air for freeing me, From dust and wind to wind.
America! America!
God bless thy people, From here thy foe in self-control
Thy liberty enforce.
O beautiful for weary feet, O sturdy flesh and cells,
O power of air for freeing me, From dust and wind to wind.
America! America!
God bless thy people, From here thy foe in self-control
Thy liberty enforce.
O beautiful for weary feet, From here thy foe in self-control
Thy liberty enforce.
America! America!
God save thee, praise thy name, And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.
On the morning of September 13, 1814, during the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key boarded a British warship in Chesapeake
Bay under a flag of truce.
His mission was to secure the release of a civilian taken prisoner during the British evacuation of Washington, D.C.
But once aboard, he was unable to leave because the fleet had begun its attack on Fort McHenry.
When the smoke had cleared the following morning, Key looked at the fort to discover that it had not surrendered.
He began scribbling a poem and completed it by the time he got to shore.
Sung to an English drinking song to Anna Creon in Heaven, his poem became popular immediately, although the Star Spangled Banner didn't become our national anthem until more than a century later in 1931.
Your homework assignment is to find a book of English literature and locate the third stanza of the Star Spangled Banner written by Francis Scott Key.
For we only sing three stanzas of his poem in our National Anthem and he wrote four.
This is our national anthem, the Star Spangled Banner.
To the brave men who gave, by the sons of India, By the sons of India, by the sons of India,
To the sons of India, who gave their lives, For the sons of India, and the fathers of India,
By the fathers and sons of India, To the sons of India, and the fathers of India,
To the sons of India, and the fathers of India, From the shore, dearly saved, from the midst of the deep,
From the deep, from the deep, from the deep, From the deep, from the deep, from the deep,
The stars set the grief of warring states deep, In her glory we pray, yet now shine from the street.
The stars set the grief of warring states deep, In her glory we pray, yet now shine from the street.
For the freedom of the greatest of men, We pray for you, our God, the King of Israel,
To the sons of India, and the fathers of India, To the sons of India, and the fathers of India,
The sons of India, and the fathers of India, To the sons of India, and the fathers of India,
From the shore, dearly saved, from the midst of the deep, From the deep, from the deep, from the deep,
From the deep, from the deep, from the deep.
The Battle Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe wrote the words for this stirring tune during the Civil War in the process of creating one of the most enduring of patriotic songs.
She had heard the melody It was sung by Union soldiers in Washington, D.C.
one day in 1861.
The tune was drawn from an old Methodist hymn, possibly written by one John William Steffi, and originally titled, Say, Brothers, Will You Meet Us?
The soldiers were singing words called John Brown's Body, probably thinking the song referred to the militant anti-slavery leader who staged the famous raid at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
The John Brown referred to was actually an Army sergeant stationed at a fort in Massachusetts.
The Atlantic Monthly published Mrs. Howe's lyric, paying her five dollars, and history took care of the rest.
We will join the Battle Hymn of the Republic in progress, taking us up to the top of the hour.
And may God bless each and every one of you, and God bless our Republic.
Amen.
He's Christ the Lord, the cross that sees, with the glory in His bosom, the hope of spiritual children.
He's the hope of all, and He's the hope of all.
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