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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