Customer Rating: Summary: not traditional enough Comment: Good, but many of the songs are NOT immediately recognizable.
What's the point of having "The Star Spangled Banner" if the first half minute or so, is not immediately recognizable? Customer Rating: Summary: Americas' favorite Patriotic Songs Comment: This is a great CD to have playing in the background at a 4th of July party. It puts everyone in a festive mood. You will often find yourself singing along. A great variety of singers. Customer Rating: Summary: somebody open the trash can lid Comment: i HATE this collection of boring sterotypical american songs. ive never been much of a patriot. this album has terrible songs like all those songs people like to put there hand over their heart while playing. yuck me and my family will pass on this one. i recomend you do the same. Customer Rating: Summary: Eeww! Comment: 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! Customer Rating: Summary: this land is your land Comment: to think that "this land is your land" is a patriotic song is laughable at best, however is a common misconception of the song. you'd think that the creators of this cd would research the songs they put on the cd a little more, and find that "this land is your land" is actually a protest song (original lyrics contained lyrics such as "on that sign there it said private property/but on the other side it didn't say nothing/that side was made for you and me", an obvious attack on capitalism".