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unusual facts about patriotic song



Here's a Health unto His Majesty

"Here's a Health unto His Majesty" is an English patriotic song or glee, now used as the regimental march of the Royal Army Medical Corps since 1948.


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Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland

The title Beresina refers to the Beresinalied, a patriotic song used as the code for initiating the Putsch.

Boys the Old Flag Never Touched the Ground

"Boys The Old Flag Never Touched The Ground" is a patriotic song sung at events by Medal of Honor recipient Sgt. William H. Carney of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

Colin Kelly

The patriotic song There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere by Paul Roberts and Shelby Darnell (recorded by Elton Britt) places Colin Kelly alongside other legendary Americans in the line "I'll see Lincoln, Custer, Washington and Perry, / Nathan Hale and Colin Kelly too".

From Bauhaus to Our House

Wolfe bluntly lays out his thesis in the introduction to From Bauhaus to Our House with a riff on the patriotic song "America the Beautiful"

Hariharan – Down the Years

It includes 7 tracks, 6 of them compiled from earlier ghazal albums of Hariharan and the famous patriotic song Bharath Humko Jaan Se Pyara Hai, composed by musician A. R. Rahman for the 1992 film Roja.

Malaysian choirs

SMK Damansara Jaya Choir-Under Mdm Cecilia, Champion of the National Patriotic Song competition 2011.

Oscar Brand

Brand is well known for writing catchy, themed, folk songs, including the eponymous theme to his initially CTV and then CBC television show "Let's Sing Out" and the Canadian patriotic song "Something to Sing About" (actual title: "This Land of Ours"), which is one of Canada's national songs.

South Plainfield, New Jersey

Dennis Madalone, stunt coordinator and musician, best known for his patriotic song "America We Stand As One".