Flag Day Vintage Recordings Sousa & US Marine Band

Flag Day Vintage Recordings Sousa & US Marine Band

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It’s Flag Day! Here are three vintage recordings for Old Glory:

The U.S. Marine Band performs “True to the Flag” (actually of German origin) in 1922

John Philip Sousa, “Riders for the Flag” in 1929

Sousa introduces and conducts “Stars and Stripes Forever” in 1929


IMAGE: Jasper Johns, “Three Flags” (1954)


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