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July 4th, 2025, 249 years!

Posted on 07/04/2025 5.00 AM

JCM 6/30/2025 7:17:19 PM


Posted by: JCM

Occasional Reader 7/4/2025 7:07:43 AM
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Happy Independence Day!  This is truly the most hopeful on our nation has had in a long time.  
buzzsawmonkey 7/4/2025 9:28:57 AM
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Let the Fourth inspire us to also make it the Forth...
buzzsawmonkey 7/4/2025 9:45:15 AM
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My Fourth of July playlist.

The song “The House I Live In” was, I believe, written in part by Earl Robinson, the same guy who wrote “Ballad for Americans.”  Paul Robeson, the lead voice in “Ballad,” also recorded “The House I Live In” as a single.   Though Robeson, and, I believe, Robinson, were Communists, the Communists of the late Depression/early WWII era were a lot more patriotic than a lot of supposedly middle of the road folks today.

Harold Arlen, who wrote the last song, also wrote the famous songs “Stormy Weather” and “Ill Wind” (the followup), and collaborated with Yip Harburg to write the songs for the film “The Wizard of Oz.”  Like Irving Berlin, he was a cantor’s son.

The House I Live In  (Frank Sinatra)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovwHkb1wEfU


Ballad For Americans  (Paul Robeson)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnXyGr668wg


God's Country (Harold Arlen, singing his own song)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQbafgnDkn8

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