Posted by Graeme Gigante on July 01, 2026 at 19:54:32:
Hello everyone. Hope all is well, including with you Bob & Snoop. Glad to realize that you’re feeling better & back home by the way, Snoop. Happy 4th of July to all! Being that it’s 4th of July weekend, I have the ideal 4th of July All-American 5th/last hour theme suggestion for this week’s Friday night show, with an entire series worth of songs that can & would keep us rolling past the night until possibly early the next morning or so. They can either be about the country as a whole, songs about any civil war or any other historical war that involved the U.S., a specific city or state in mind, anything about Fireworks, veterans (including as a tribute for any loved ones of ours that once served, are currently serving, or is set to be in the military, whether they’re still alive today or not) & anything else we can possibly think of that is a symbol for the holiday for our great nation.
Here is my my list of songs for this proposed ideal theme:
Here it goes:
- All the different versions we have on a 45 or file of “This Land Is Your Land”
- “The Army Goes Rolling Along” (This song originated in 1908).
- “Stars & Stripes Forever” - John Philip Sousa
- “Take Me Home, Country Roads” (The West Virginia Song) by John Denver
- The Star-Spangled Banner
- Any & all versions you have of “We Shall Overcome”
- Any & all bversions you have of Marines Hymn
- Semper Parartus
- “I’m No Communist” by Lulu Belle & Scotty
- “Get that Communist, Joe” by The Cavaliers
- “Advice To Joe” Roy Acuff
- “Eisenhower Blues” by J.B. Lenoir
- “Uranium Fever” by Elton Britt
- “Atom Bomb Baby” by Five Stars
- “Hydrogen Bomb” by Al Rex
- “Old Soldiers Never Die” by Gene Autry
- “God Please Protect America” by Jimmie Osborne
- “Fortunate Son” by Credence Clearwater Revival (AKA CCR)
- “For What It”s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield
- “Bring Em Home” by Peter Seeger
- “War” by Edwin Star
- “We Shall Overcome” by Chris Albert Tindley
- “Draft Resister” by Steppenwolf
- “I Ain’t Marching Anymore” by Phil Ochs
- “I Feel Like I’m Fixing To Die Rag”
- “Masters Of War” by Bob Dylan
- “Mississippi Goddam” by Nina Simone
- “Ohio” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- “Times Are A Changing” by Bob Dylan
- “Unknown Soldier” by The Doors
- “Universal Soldier” by Buffy Sainte Marie.
- “Handsome Johnny” by Richie Havens
- “There But For Fortune” by Phil Ochs
- “Soldier Boy” by the Shirelles
- “What’s Going On” by Marvin Gaye
- “I’d Love To Change The World” by Ten Years After
- “Billy Don’t Be A Hero” by Bo Donaldson
- “Ain’t That America” by John Mellencamp
- “Born In The U.S.A” Bruce Springsteen
- “Sunday Bloody Sunday” by U.2.
- “Invisible Sun” by The Police
- “Two Tribes” by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
- “Land Of Confusion” by Genesis
- “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath
- “God Bless The U.S.A.” by Lee Greenwood
- “Freedom” by Wham!
- “Living In America” by James Brown
- “Back In The U.S.A” by Chuck Berry
- “All American Boy” by Bill Parsons
- “Battles Hymn of the Republic” by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
- “This Land Is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie
- “Simple Song Of Freedom” by Bobby Darin
- “Ragged Old Flag” by Johnny Cash
- “God Bless America Again” by Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty
- “Last Train To Clarksville” by the Monks
- “Born In The U.S.A.” by Bruce Springsteen
- “Rockin’ In The U.S.A.” by Kiss
- “Red, White, & Blue” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
- “America” by Simon & Garfunkel
- “God Bless America” by Irving Berlin
- “A Heartsick Soldier On Heartbreak Ridge” by Multiple Artists Including Ernest Tubb, Gene Autry, and many others
- “I’m In Korea” by L.B. Lenoir
- “Old Soldiers Never Die” by Gene Autry
- “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town” by Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
- “Galveston” by Glenn Campbell
- “Good Night Saigon” by Billy Joel
- “In The Navy” by Village People
- “In America” by Charlie Daniels
- “Free Bird” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
- “Hotel California” by The Eagles
- “New York, New York” by Frank Sinatra
- “Chicago” by Chicago
- “I Feel Safe In New York City” by AC/DC
- All different versions of “America The Beautiful”, including the version by Ray Charles.
- “San Francisco” by Village People
If anyone else here has any song suggestions that are ideal for this proposed theme that relate to the upcoming 4th of July holiday, whether it’s a general song about the country, one about a specific city or state, any historical war involving the U.S., fireworks, veterans, etc, as I’ve mentioned up above, feel free to list them in response down below. And let’s kick off the weekend with a spectacular show to kick off the weekend !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!