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The song was first publicly performed on February 6, the play's opening night, at Herald Square Theater in New York City. "You're a Grand Old Flag" quickly became the first song from a musical to sell over a million copies of sheet music. [1] The title and first lyric comes from someone Cohan once met; the Library of Congress website notes ...
"Brave" is a song by American singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, taken from her fourth studio album, The Blessed Unrest (2013). The song was written by Bareilles and Jack Antonoff from the band fun., as the singer was inspired from the struggles that a close friend dealt with in regard to coming out as gay.
"Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" (originally "Columbia, the Land of the Brave") is an American patriotic song which was popular in the U.S. during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Composed c. 1843, it was long used as an unofficial national anthem of the United States, in competition with other songs.
"We had absolute unanimity is this song being the touchstone," Vietnam War veteran and University of Wisconsin Communications Systems Director Doug Bradley said in a 2006 interview. "This was the ...
By World War I, dozens of versions had been published and millions of copies were sold, securing the memory of a new American folk hero. Poet Carl Sandburg called the song "Casey Jones, the Brave Engineer" the "greatest ballad ever written". Casey Jones figures in many railroad songs, such as "Freight Train Boogie", by the Delmore Brothers.
Veterans, like retired Army Major Deb Wesloh, has been involved with Soldier Songs & Voices for the last five and a half years. She said the experience has been life-changing for her.
Warner also is a retired U.S. Air Force veteran and the chief financial officer for his LLC, Wall of Fame Entertainment in Nashville, Tennessee. During his Air Force ... Local Cheyenne musician Ty ...
The song is often played on bagpipes at New York Police Department funerals. Pro wrestler "Rowdy" Roddy Piper used the song as his entrance music throughout his career until 1986. He also performed the song on the bagpipes, alongside the Balmoral Highlanders, at WWF's SummerSlam '92 held in Wembley Stadium .