America, Why I Love Her

John Wayne - America, Why I Love Her

America, Why I Love Her
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Artist: John Wayne
Brand: WAYNE,JOHN
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-11-27
Music Label: Mpi Home Video
Soundtracks:
  1. Why I Love Her
  2. The Pledge of allegiance
  3. The Hyphen
  4. Mis Raices Estan Aqui
  5. The People
  6. An American Boy Grows Up
  7. Face the Flag
  8. The Good Things
  9. Why Are You Marching, Son
  10. Taps

Music reviews of America, Why I Love Her

Music Review: Some forget!
Rating: 5 Stars

This CD brings back feelings when I first heard the LP. Americans sometimes forget what America is and need to be reminded.

Description of America, Why I Love Her

This best-selling recording was performed by the legendary John Wayne. It's finally available as Duke's spoken-word CD of poetry, written by Big John Mitchum. It's a must-have for all patriotic Americans, film buffs, collectors and poetry fans.
This sentimentally over-the-top spoken-word recording was originally issued in 1973, during the height of Watergate and the final, unsettling days of the Vietnam War. In the wake of September 11, 2001, the John Wayne Estate reissued it on CD. And why not? Marion Morrison, a.k.a. John Wayne and the Duke, remains an enduring symbol of America--a country with an endlessly conflicted legacy of largely improvised symbolism, national myths, revised-on-a-dime history, and the freedom to make a buck on effusive patriotic rhetoric. Kitsch collectors may welcome the chance to own a true genre staple in digital sound, while others may yet find genuine solace in its orchestra-and-choir-backed oratory. With a poetic sensibility that seldom strays from the "Carolina pines/Appalachian mines" level of its opening verses, Wayne's processed voice (which betrays the health problems that would be his demise) expounds on topics that range from his homeland's undeniable natural beauty to his son's high school football career and the wisdom of a fictionalized aging Mexican caballero. The would-be idealism in "The Hyphen" aims to erase ethnic and racial boundaries, yet modern hyphenated Americans may find continued prejudice and the vagaries of history have rendered its rhetoric distinctly double-edged. Still, Wayne's love of country emanates from every track. Patriotism may be the last refuge of scoundrels, but it's been graciously hospitable to Hollywood icons, from the Duke to Dutch Reagan. --Jerry McCulley

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