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"South America, Take It Away" was written for Call Me Mister, a 1946 Broadway revue that touches on the post-war infatuation with Latin and Latin-American music and culture in the United States, which would go on to spawn and influence numerous hit songs throughout the latter half of the 1940s and early 50s.
A flag anthem is a patriotic song or ode dedicated to a flag, usually one of a country (in which case it is also known as a national flag anthem).It is often either sung or performed during or immediately before the raising or lowering of a flag during a ceremony.
National, royal, flag, and regional anthems of countries and regions in South America. Includes official and unofficial anthems. ... Song of October Ninth;
Flag of British Guiana: 1955 – 1966: Flag of British Guiana: 1821 – 1822: Flag of the Protectorate of Peru: 1822: Flag of the Peruvian Republic: 1822 – 1825: Flag of the Peruvian Republic: 1836 – 1839: Flag of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation: 1992 – 1999: Flag of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: 1959 – 1975: Flag of ...
The Wiphala has been confused with the seven-striped rainbow design flag, the current official banner of the Peruvian city of Cusco, where it is commonly displayed in government buildings and in the main square. [16] This rainbow flag is sometimes displayed as a symbol of the Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu), although Peruvian historiographers and ...
The song became very popular and was quickly adopted, albeit spontaneously, as the national anthem of Colombia. It was made official through Law 33 of 18 October 1920. Colombian musician José Rozo Contreras [ es ] reviewed the scores and prepared the transcriptions for symphonic band, which was adopted as an official version by decree 1963 of ...
The Argentine National Anthem (Himno Nacional Argentino) was adopted as the sole official song of Argentina on 11 May 1813—three years after the May Revolution.Its lyrics were written by the Buenos Aires-born politician Vicente López y Planes and the music was composed by the Spanish musician Blas Parera.
As defined in the Constitution of Colombia Decree number 861 of May 17, 2014 in Article 1, the pavilion, flag and standard of the Republic of Colombia is composed by the yellow, blue and red colors distributed in three horizontal stripes. The yellow top stripe is positioned in the upper area of the flag and has a width of half of the entire ...