America the Beautiful

The Heart of America in Poetry

 

Spoken by

Vincent Price

 

Columbia Masterworks

ML 5668

 

SIDE ONE

Introduction (0:40)

The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers (2:28) ***LISTEN***

Thanksgiving Day (1:32)

Paul RevereÕs Ride (6:40)

The Village Blacksmith (2:46)

The Star-Spangled Banner (2:36)

The House by the Side of the Road (2:16)

Trees (1:12)

The Barefoot Boy (4:44)

 

SIDE TWO

Introduction (0:32)

A Visit from St Nicholas (3:54)

O Captain! My Captain! (2:24)

Jesse James (3:50)

Casey at the Bat (4:22)

Casey Jones (2:20)

The New Colossus (1:20)

Chicago (2:20)

America for Me (2:26)

In Flanders Field (1:12)

America the Beautiful (1:26) ***LISTEN***

 

Written by John Tobias

Produced and directed by Douglas Duer

 

Library of Congress R61-1207

 

 

Cover: The Residence of David Twining 1787

Courtesy of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Williamsburg, Virginia


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