Compact disc. Vocals by Al Dana, Doris Eugeno, Rojonie Hammond, Ricky Schweitzer, Sara Kapner.
Contents:
Coming to America -- Chumash welcome song (A Native American song) -- Blow ye winds (A sea chantey, Days of whaling) -- Paul Revere speech (excerpt) and Yankee Doodle (Revolutionary War) -- Star-Spangled Banner (War of 1812) -- Paddle wheeler (Paddle boats on our mighty rivers) -- O Susanna (an 1800's, Stephen Foster song) -- Goober Peas (Confederate song, Civil War) -- When Johnny comes marching home (Union Song, Civil War) -- Yellow Rose of Texas (Calvary outposts & cattle trails) -- ABC States song (set to Turkey in the straw) -- Turkey in the straw (Instrumental) -- Home on the range (Official state song of Kansas) -- Wabash Cannonball (Railroad history) -- Erie Canal (1905, New York State) -- The Statue of Liberty (Poem, Emma Lazarus) -- Charleston (1920's flapper era, dance) -- Take me out to the ballgame (American tradition) -- Speech excerpt, 1963, Martin Luther King, I had a dream -- This land is your land (1970's folk song) -- America the beautiful (A favorite patriotic song).
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