Patriotic Songs

[Dan The Man]

In honor of Independence Day, lets put together a list of good songs to play over this weekend.

The first couple the come to mind is:

America the Beautiful - Ray Charles
God Bless America - Len Greenwood (?)
America - Neil Diamond

A couple of others that are great to play, IMHO is:

Born In The USA - Bruce Springsteen
Pink Houses - John Mellencamp

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One of the areas that seem to be lacking is hip-hop, I cannot think of any patriotic hip hop songs, old or new. -- Am I missing something?

 

[Travis B]

American Pie - Don McLean

 

[Jon Tuck]

Anything by John Phillip Souza.

 

[Travis B]

Toby Kieth - Courtesy of the Red White & Blue
Chicago - Saturday In the Park (playing tomorrow)

 

[DJ Gray]

I am playing at a block party tomorrow to celebrate the 4th of July....
I have a whole "slew" of old country Music, Charlie Daniels, Merle, George.....

Just a couple I had not seen listed......

"Independence Day" Martina McBride
"Living In America", James Brown

 

[Jon Tuck]

Bruce Springsteen-4th OF July Song.

 

[Fred Wright]

Try Linda Ronstadt's cover of Back In The U.S.A. for an uptempo dance beat.

For some downtempo, George Jones' 50,000 Names is a good choice.

Then there's Three Chord Country (and American Rock & Roll).

 

[SoftJock Rick]

The Star Spangled Banner - 4th of July - Boston
The Rising - Bruce Springsteen
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
City Of New Orleans - Willie Nelson
Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
Dixie - Black Oak Arkansas
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
American Girl - Tom Petty
ROCK In The USA - Mellencamp
California Girls - Beach Boys or David Lee Roth
Surfin' USA - Beach Boys
Red Dirt Road - Brooks and Dunn
Star Spangled Banner - Whitney Live or LeeAnn Rymes
This Land Is Your Land - Bruce Springsteens version

Just about anything by Charlie Daniels or Mellencamp

 

[Bill Hollick]

Ummm, DJ Gray, "Independence Day" by Martina McBride is about domestic abuse.

 

[Jeff Romard]

Born In The USA - Bruce Springsteen
Pink Houses - John Mellencamp

Actually Dan they are both protest songs and not exactly complementry

 

[Jeff Romard]

Shooter Jennings 4th of July

 

[SoftJock Rick]

Actually Dan they are both protest songs and not exactly complementry

That's the best kind -- a protest is what eventually led to Independence being declared

If it wasn't for those protests, we'd still be bowing to the Queen, instead of being wiretapped by King George :sqerr:



That reminds me -- The South's Gonna Do It Again

 

[Fred Wright]

Gosh, I forgot about Lee Greenwood's Proud to be an American (God Bless the USA).

 

[SoftJock Rick]

Shame on you Fred


Looks like rain coming in here, guess I might not be able to go up on the roof and watch the fireworks...

Ahhh, I'll shoot off my bottle rockets this weekend, if I can find where I hid them -- still looking -- apparently I is good at hiding things from myself :sqerr:

 

[Jeff Romard]

That's the best kind -- a protest is what eventually led to Independence being declared

Can't say I disagree with you Rick most don't see it that way though

 

[jfactor1]

The theme song to Team America:World Police