Star Spangled Banner American Spirit America The Beautiful Convoy Fanfare For The Common Man Yellowstone Morning Heritage Wolf Creek Pass Home On The Range Mt. McKinley Cloudburst Tin Type Battle Hymn Of The Republic |
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Star Spangled Banner
Composed by Francis Scott Key Arranged by Chip Davis American Spirit Words by Bill Fries Composed by Chip Davis America The Beautiful Words by Katherine Lee Bates Music by Samuel A. Ward Arranged by Chip Davis Convoy Words by Bill Fries Composed by Chip Davis Fanfare For The Common Man Composed by Aaron Copland Yellowstone Morning Composed by Chip Davis Heritage Composed by Chip Davis Wolf Creek Pass Words by Bill Fries Composed by Chip Davis Home On The Range Words by Brewster Higley Music by Daniel Kelly Arranged by Chip Davis Mt. McKinley Composed by Chip Davis Cloudburst Ferde Grofe Tin Type Words by Bill Fries Composed by Chip Davis Battle Hymn Of The Republic Julia Ward Howe Arranged by Chip Davis |
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Mannheim Steamroller
Chip Davis, Percussion, Drums, And Toys Jackson Berkey, Keyboards Ron Cooley, Bass And All Fretted Instruments Arnie Roth, Concertmaster, Violin Solos Bobby Jenkins, Oboe Solos The Pledge Of Allegiance Recited By The Children Of American Gramaphone |
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Recording Studios and Location Recording:
Mannheim Steamroller Symphony Conducted by Chip Davis Chicago Recording Company Chicago, IL Engineer-Chris Sabold Assistant Engineer-Mat Lejeune, Brian Pinke The Chicago Symphony Chorus Conducted by Duain Wolfe, Music Director (The CSC is a constituent of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, Music Director) St. Michael's Cathedral In Old Town, Chicago, IL Recorded by Metro Mobile Engineer-Mike Konopka Assistant Engineer-Mike Scasiwicz, Darren Styles London Symphony CTS Engineer-Dick Lewsey Fanfare For The Common Man Ensemble: Horn Dale Clevenger Oto Carrillo Greg Flint Melanie Cottle Trumpet John Hagstrom Mark Ridenour Tage Larson Tenor Trombone Ward Stare Adam Moen Bass Trombone Charlie Vernon Tuba Charlie Suchat Timpani Doug Waddell Percussion Ted Atkatz Mike Folker Musicians contracted by AWR Music L.L.C., Arnie Roth |
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This CD is a collection of pieces of music to give a feeling of "Americana"...
American life... American Spirit.
When we first started on this project, Bill (C.W.) said, "So it's something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue." Well that says a lot. Something old: Convoy, Battle Hymn of the Republic, America the Beautiful, Something new: Tin Type, Mt. McKinley, Heritage, American Spirit, Something borrowed: Fanfare for the Common Man, Cloudburst (Grand Canyon Suite). Of course these aren't all of the pieces, but you can see how the saying fits. This collection of Americana also represents feelings of America and some historical moments: Tin Type; The Jewels of America, The National Parks: Yellowstone Morning, Cloudburst, from Grand Canyon Suite, Mt. McKinley; some American culture and down home American humor: Wolf Creek Pass, Convoy. We've tried to give a bit of the flavor of American life. So... Mannheim Steamroller and McCall on the same CD?... Well... They have been for a long time. Back in the early 70s there was this advertising creative director named Bill Fries who did many award-winning commercials. Bill hired a guy named Chip Davis to write the musical tracks (that's me). The tracks were played by a group of studio musicians, quite often in a country style. This group was experimenting in the evenings with an eclectic mixture of classical and pop - "18th Century Rock and Roll"... Mannheim Steamroller. www.mannheimsteamroller.com Collectively, these two inventions have gone on to sell over 50 million records, most of them on the little label from Omaha that launched both of these concepts... American Gramaphone. When it came time to decide what we should use to represent the feeling inside the jewel box on the CD, it was immediately apparent that only one great American artist, also from the Midwest, could give us the art representative of the music and the sentiment... Terry Redlin. We are proud to have his piece called "Good Morning America" as our front cover. |
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How 'bout them fireworks?
Pretty cool huh? Ever wonder why we shoot 'em off on the Fourth? It's cause we're celebrating our freedom. It's because we're Americans. And it's our birthday! The first three words of the Constitution We the People... We the people are celebratin' Our independence. We are the Declaration of Independence and The Star Spangled Banner up there in the sky. We are the Rocket's Red Glare, the Bombs Bursting in Air. We are The Fourth of July! We are The Pledge of Allegiance we say to our flag the Stars and Stripes Forever! We are the Republic for which it stands The United States of America. Remember? We are that One Nation, under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All and because we all live in the Land of the Free we don't have to say it at all, unless we want to. You wanta be counted? Then stand up and shout it! Make sure the whole world gets to hear it! You wanna talk Freedom? We know all about it! We are the American Spirit! I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands; One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. |
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President Benjamin Harrison first instituted the pledge
of allegiance and it was first used on October 12, 1892.
Original pledge: I pledge allegiance to my flag and to the Republic for which it stands; one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The pledge was officially amended on Flag Day, June 14, 1924. This replaced "my flag" with the phrase "the flag of the United States of America." For a second time the pledge was amended in 1954 adding "under God." For more information: "Pledge of allegiance to the Flag of the United States," Microsoft (R) Encarta (R) Online Encyclopedia 2003 http://encarta.msn.com (C) 1997-2003 Microsoft Corporation All Rights Reserved |
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There was a time, in those tin type days of our long-lost America
when we pictured ourselves... together!
Families! Good Friends! One great nation, under God and the Flag.
We were... The United States of America!
But... there was a time, when those rusting tin types in our family albums showed a nation broken in two... ripped apart at the very seams of two Flags! So torn apart, we fought each other, fathers against fathers, sons against sons... some as young as fifteen! And tearful mothers kissed their good little boys goodbye, they marched off to war to fight for one flag or another, or to die, crying. And... there was a time of course, one blue-gray day, a time to honor the graves of our gallant young men and our good little boys who'd given their lives for their flag. So, there, at Gettysburg, came a tall quiet man, a man with the truth of the prairies in his eyes, and a deep sadness in his heart... to say a few kind words... The sound of his voice is forgotten now, lost in time and space, but we will never forget... his words... Four score and seven years ago... our fathers brought forth on this continent... a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, said this... "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." But we do remember what they did, Mr. President... and we will never, never forget you... or your last few words... your last, few... precious... words... "That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. That we, here, highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and this government of the people... by the people... for the people... shall not perish from the earth." There was a time... in those tin type days... of our great, great grandfathers... when the war between ourselves was over. When, once again... we called ourselves... the United States... of America. |
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought
forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived
in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "all
men are created equal"
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But is a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow this ground - The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here. It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln Transcript and manuscript copy of the Gettysburg Address from the Library of Congress web site. For more information http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd |
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