Happy 4th to everyone! Hope yours is safe and fun!
The crew at BackstageOL is out filming an interview with Taking Back Sunday, we’ll have it for you later!
In the meantime, I thought it would be fun to post my top 5 4th of July songs. Do you agree? Did I leave any major ones off the list?
Enjoy! Here at Number 5, “Coming To America” as done by Neil Diamond!
Number 4, it’s the BOSS, Bruce Springsteen “Born In The U.S.A.”
Number 3 was a staple at Jimi Hendrix concerts in the 1960’s. He played it live at Woodstock. It’s Hendrix and the “Star Spangled Banner.”
The Number 2 song on my list is almost considered a “runner-up” to our National Anthem. Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA”.
And, at Number 1, the song whose lyrics come from “Defence of Fort McHenry”, a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.
It was set to the tune of a popular British drinking song (did you know that?) written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men’s social club in London. “The Anacreontic Song” (or “To Anacreon in Heaven”), with various lyrics, was already popular in the United States.
“The Star Spangled Banner” was made the official National Anthem by a congressional resolution on March 3, 1931 and signed by President Herbert Hoover.
