I watched this movie growing up every time it was The Movie of the Week on TV and still like watching it and hearing all the music. My great-grandmother saw John Phillip Sousa and his band when they came to town when she was a little girl.
I once participated in a discussion about music, American composers specifically, and one person mentioned that there were no Hispanic American composers that he could think of. I blushed a bit at his momentary loss of memory, and reminded him that John Philip Sousa was born in Washington D.C. of a Portuguese decent father born in Spain, and a German mother. I think that makes him Hispanic.
Surprisingly the soundtrack to this movie was made with extraordinary care! Resulting in not well known movie about a great composer, one of those standing firmly at foundation of modern American music. But it is a honest memorial and tribute to him.
He later remarked that it was a way to show the Northern people that the ex confederates were now our countrymen again. Their songs are our song and our songs are theirs. It was a way of saying that we always were brothers and we can go back to being brothers. We weren’t Yankees or Confederates anymore, we were all just Americans.
John Philip Sousa is everything great about this country! God bless America!
John Phillip Sousa was violently opposed to segregation, and this was the film's nod to that.
Is it just me or was Sousa making a point
Nah he for sure tryna make a point, good on him
I watched this movie growing up every time it was The Movie of the Week on TV and still like watching it and hearing all the music. My great-grandmother saw John Phillip Sousa and his band when they came to town when she was a little girl.
I once participated in a discussion about music, American composers specifically, and one person mentioned that there were no Hispanic American composers that he could think of. I blushed a bit at his momentary loss of memory, and reminded him that John Philip Sousa was born in Washington D.C. of a Portuguese decent father born in Spain, and a German mother. I think that makes him Hispanic.
I just finished reading "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe yesterday. This had special meaning for me today!
This is my favorite scene throughput the whole movie
After 1:35 and till the end... oh my... it's beautiful :"
Surprisingly the soundtrack to this movie was made with extraordinary care! Resulting in not well known movie about a great composer, one of those standing firmly at foundation of modern American music. But it is a honest memorial and tribute to him.
I found this movie on TH-cam and. Listen to it several times each week. Debra Paget singing Father's Got EM. Is vhypbnotizing
John Phillip Sousa created a march for The Royal Welch Fusiliers because the British unit was fighting with the USMC at Peking in a siege of 90 days.
I didn't know that.
Still so wonderful
His father was born in Seville, Spain
Nice clip
YEEEEH! So my hero SOUSA isn’t RACIST. He’s my HERO!
A just song !!!
Awesome!!!!!
Since when did kernel Kentucky actually met sousa???
My favorite scene! I am white Southern man!
Today you won’t get to watch this kind of movie anymore.
I wonder why Lincoln wanted to hear Dixie...
Maybe Lincoln wanted to heal the anger. Lincoln liked the song
He later remarked that it was a way to show the Northern people that the ex confederates were now our countrymen again. Their songs are our song and our songs are theirs. It was a way of saying that we always were brothers and we can go back to being brothers. We weren’t Yankees or Confederates anymore, we were all just Americans.
@@robertcurry389 Ok that makes sense! I guess I hadn't thought of it that way, because it's so often used as a rallying cry for "southern pride."
Dixie was played before that !!!
A wonderful fantasy. But a fantasy it was in Georgia in the 1950s
African-Americans Now and Forever, Free. Amen. Why? Because We're the Good Guys. (smile)
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All Americans are great! I am European American guy by the way!
Liberals are not good! I am conservative male!
this is the real America !
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What a joke...lol...
You dont know the history, then
Isailovic you are a joke.
Get a life.😂😂😂
@teachisailovic889 cry me a river, build me a bridge and get over it. Also read a single history book I implore you.