Happy 4th!

This comes from a 1999 compilation album entitled Sing America. It’s very good, but I can’t help thinking it was clearly released before the last 17 years of argument about what America is and what it should be, which has now brought us to Trump.

Here’s the track listing:
1. Fanfare For The Common Man – Leonard Bernstein
2. The House I Live In – Frank Sinatra
3. America – Neil Diamond
4. Living In The Promiseland – Willie Nelson
5. Graceland – Paul Simon
6. Sir Duke – Stevie Wonder
7. Summertime – Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong
8. Amazing Grace – Judy Collins
9. Oh, Susannah – James Taylor
10. Take Me Home, Country Roads – John Denver
11. City Of New Orleans – Arlo Guthrie
12. Blowin’ In The Wind – Bob Dylan
13. If I Can Dream – Elvis Presley
14. America The Beautiful/We Shall Overcome – O’Land Draper’s Associates
15. This Is My Country – The Impressions
16. Back In The U.S.A. – Linda Ronstadt
17. Certerfield – John Fogerty
18. This Land Is Your Land – Peter,Paul & Mary
19. God Bless America – LeAnn Rimes
20. Sing, America – Denyce Graves
21. The Star Spangled Banner – Cher