Post a favorite Independance Day Song!

[doublethink]

Here's mine ... have a great 4th Eve !!

[Chasstev365]

1. Statue of Liberty XTC

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[doublethink]

9. Nice !

[The Wizard]

2. Back in the USA, Chuck Berry

[doublethink]

4. Love Chuck Berry !!! Thanks ...

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[Marcuse]

30. True. And "Winter in America" is as relevant now as it ever was.

[doublethink]

8. Sweet love it !

[Gore1FL]

3. Can't beat Sousa

[Iggo]

14. Fact!

[ITAL]

19. The only choice IMHO

[betsuni]

34. Hands down the best.

[hlthe2b]

5. Rocky Mountain High, of course (dating back to when the PTB thought it was totally about drugs

and censored it--then a mere 10 or so years later, made it the Colorado State song. Hah!

Not an Independence Day song, you say? Well, it sure as hell was mine and just about every other Coloradoan's.

[SheltieLover]

6. Jimi at Woodstock

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Updated link

[doublethink]

10. One of my top 5 !! N.T.

[SheltieLover]

13. Mine, too

Certainly appropriate as kraznov keeps trying to create his own Viet Nam.

[orthoclad]

44. genius.

[SheltieLover]

50. Yes, he was!

[orthoclad]

64. The expressiveness of that one piece

is stunning. It summarized the late 60s (68-72*) perfectly. The terror, the sarcasm, the grief, the plastic idolatry of the war machine, maybe the single most eloquent song ever. Played to an emptying woodstock, the ground littered with debris like a battlefield the day after, wounded stragglers retreating.

*the 60s started early and ended late. the following 70s were the lamest decade ever, with a very few exceptions. That song was the high water mark, as Thompson described in Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.

[SheltieLover]

66. Absolutely!

[H2O Man]

57. Simply the best!

[Celerity]

11. NOFX - Franco Un-American

Label: Fat Wreck Chords – FAT657-1
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, White
Country: US
Released: 6 May 2003
Genre: Rock
Style: Punk

[czarjak]

20. FUNNY-NOT-FUNNY!

Funny how THAT works!?

[shenmue]

12. Aretha Franklin, "Think (Freedom)"

One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite Americans.

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[KPN]

15. Awesome pick! Can't do better than that here.

[Wiz Imp]

16. 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) - Bruce Springsteen

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[doublethink]

69. Love Bruce! Thanks!

[Wiz Imp]

17. Independence Day - Bruce Springsteen

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[Janbdwl72]

18. I Left My Heart in San Francisco

Tony Bennett

[struggle4progress]

21. Rise, Columbia!

[struggle4progress]

22. Johnny has Gone for a Soldier

[struggle4progress]

23. Chester

[struggle4progress]

24. Green mountain boys

[struggle4progress]

25. Somewhere Over The Rainbow

[struggle4progress]

26. Union maid

[struggle4progress]

27. ​I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

[BigmanPigman]

28. I have 2, both from the film Yankee Doodle Dandy...

You're A Grand 'Ol Flag

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Over There

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I always get tears in my eyes when I watch these. I taught my 1st Graders "You're A Grand 'Ol Flag" and they LOVED it too! My enthusiasm was evident when I belted it out and had to close the classroom door (my voice sucks but 6 year olds can't tell).

[tavernier]

39. George M. Cohan. I love all of his songs.

So glad there’s a statue of him in the middle of Broadway in NYC. I mean, if Trump hasn’t taken it down yet.

Thanks for sharing. I try to watch this film every year and it always makes me smile.

[BigmanPigman]

43. Cagney was such an incredible "hoofer"

He walks on walls with ease. So much talent. They used to show this movie on TCM each year but I haven't seen it for a few years. I hope they show it again soon.

[tavernier]

46. He preferred to be known as a hoofer rather than an actor.

I have rented Yankee doodle Dandy, every fourth of July on prime, and this year it said that it was no longer available. I had to get my fix just watching the two little short videos that you posted. Chopping onions, of course. I would think that most patriotic networks would be thrilled to show it for free on every patriotic holiday.

[BunnyMcGee]

55. I have loved this movie for at least 55 years

since I first watched with my dad.

[RandySF]

29. Draft Dodger Rag - Smothers Brothers and George Segal

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[BigmanPigman]

65. I like this so much that I actually watch it

Throughout the year. Two nights ago Segal was on Johnny Carson with Bob Newhart. George taught them to play the ukulele.

[lame54]

31. Night Ranger...

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[wnylib]

32. An authentic Revolutionary War song from 250 years ago.

The British began the name to mock Americans, but Americans embraced it and sang this song.

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[Cloudhopper]

33. Aaron Copland & ELP: Fanfare For The Common Man

As one commenter put it below this video: ELP put their spin on a philharmonic piece; then a philharmonic put their spin on ELP's spin of a philharmonic piece.

[betsuni]

36. More Copland: "Hoedown" from "Rodeo."

[Cloudhopper]

49. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Hoedown - Live in Milan 1973

[tavernier]

48. He was a guest conductor at Kalamazoo College back in 64 or 65.

My violin teacher who was a professor at the college at the time, asked me to sit in with the orchestra for the experience. I was the concert mistress at my high school where I was a senior. I don’t remember too much other than the obvious privilege of being chosen.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

72. THAT ONE makes me cry everytime...

Just the TITLE makes me tear up. It's "soul expanding'. THANK YOU, Cloudhopper.

[Niagara]

35. America from Neil Diamond

We love you, Neil Diamond!

[Ilsa]

56. I was going to post that! But here's an alternative

video with Neil's song:

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[Niagara]

59. Great minds think alike, Ilsa

I remember being a very young child and watching the movie Born in East L.A. This is when I discovered this spectacular song!

[Ilsa]

61. I first heard it at the theater when The Jazz Singer, 1980

remake came out. Lucy Arnez played his manager and eventual love interest. Diamond played a cantor who had a pop/funk band on the side. They were supposed to play to a big club, Black-owned, Black clientele, with a record producer in attendance that night. Great music, but it doesn't quite go right:

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That scene with Lawrence Olivier was when Olivier, as his father, bails him and his band out of jail.

[Niagara]

62. Oh wow

I wasn't old enough for kindergarten in 1980 so I had no idea about this. Yikes!

[Ilsa]

68. He gets away with

the blackface because production was probably in 1979, and because the script has his fellow band-mates' characters apparently insisting upon it. It was probably another 3 or more years before the tide turned publicly on blackface.

[Niagara]

71. I was extremely young so I

don't remember too much of that.

In high school, we were shown the 1964 movie Black Like Me. That's the only time I remember seeing that.

[no_hypocrisy]

37. Independence Day -- Martina McBride

I don't care that Sean Hannity misappropriated this song. I love it.

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[betsuni]

38. Rhapsody in Blue.

[betsuni]

40. West Side Story, "America"

[doublethink]

70. Awesome!

[Jersey Devil]

41. Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture - Boston Pops

Watch it every year on TV, gives me goosebumps.

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[Still Waters]

42. The John Adams HBO miniseries theme

[orthoclad]

45. Volunteers

Jefferson Airplane

[Rafi]

47. Your Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Anymore

John Prine

[QueerDuck]

51. "Philadelphia Freedom" by Elton John 🇺🇸🎆

[Ilsa]

58. Came out in 1975, IIRC, when I was

starting my senior year in high school. Our class annual was atypically white, embossed with the shield, eagle, and Bicentennial date noted.

I still love that EJ song, like in my top 5 of his.

[DinahMoeHum]

52. Grateful Dead - US Blues

Wave that flag, wave it wide and high.

Happy 4th everyone!

[ThreeNoSeep]

53. Battle Cry of Freedom (original Union version!)

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[JustAnotherGen]

54. Mississippi God Damn

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[Greybnk48]

60. The 1812 Overture WITH Canons by The Boston Pops Orchestra.

It gives me chill whenever I hear it!

[LogDog75]

63. Yankee Doodle Dandy

[MorbidButterflyTat]

67. Whitney Houston singing the National Anthem

Super Bowl, 1991

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[IcyPeas]

73. Prince - America

[IcyPeas]

74. State of Independence - Chrissie Hynde version and Donna Summer version