I love patriotic music. My eyes tear up when I'm at events and it is performed. Imagine my joy at finding this recording. From the opening of America the Beautiful to the closing of Call of the Champions, this is a superb collection. I love the inclusion of hymns and folk songs.

There are so many good songs that it is hard to choose my favorites. The arrangement of Bound for the Promised Land has to be the best I've heard. No one does Battle Hymn of the Republic better than the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. God of Our Fathers, Whose Almighty Hand is beautifully sung. Who could resist George M. Cohan with Cohan's Big Three (Yankee Doodle Dandy, Give My Regards to Broadway, and You're a Grand Old Flag)? Not I!

New to me were Distant Land; They, the Builders of the Nation; Hymn for America (written for the CD), and The Pledge of Allegiance (also written for the CD).

If you enjoy patriotic music, this is a must have! ( )