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Great Place to Start a Patriotic Music Collection

Mark Baker | Santa Clarita, CA United States | 09/11/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This choral collection features a majority of the best known and loved patriotic songs from our country's history. I'll admit I was a little leery of the choral part when I first picked it up, but I've found that, for the most part, it works really well. It especially stands out on the acappella version of "My Country 'Tis of Thee." It's absolutely stunning. Other fun songs are "This Land is Your Land," which I really wasn't familiar with before I bought this, and a personal recent favorite song "God Bless the USA." I love having the "Armed Forces Medley" on here so I can learn these songs. And the instrumental arrangement on "Stars and Stripes Forever Medley" at the end has me taping my toes every time I hear it.There are a couple missteps, however. I've heard better versions of "The Star Spangled Banner." I think one reason I'm disappointed with it is that they only include one verse. I love the other verses of our national anthem, and wished they'd included at least one more since they included multiple verses of all the other songs. Also, "If My People" and "God Save America," while find songs, just don't seem to fit here.Overall, you can't go wrong with this collection. I'm just starting to look for patriotic music, and this has been a wonderful first CD."

Eeww!

mudflap68 | 06/19/2006

(1 out of 5 stars)

"This is like the music to one of those theme park Celebrate America type shows. The musical arrangements have that hokey, somewhat dated, overly sweet and enthusiatic feel I hate. I thought I was getting the standard versions of these songs but what I got was the cruise ship extravaganza, yuck!"

America's Favorite Patriotic Songs

Mary A. Mackenzie | Florida | 09/29/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"The title says it all.

Good old fashioned "goose bump" music."