America the Beautiful - Musical Slideshow

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America the Beautiful - Musical Slideshow

Post by RPaul » Mon May 31, 2021 9:26 pm

A few months back, there was a listing for "America the Beautiful" covers to replace specific Ray Charles version that was temped in. My submission didn't get forwarded, but I decided to put the recording out there into the world.

The lyric for the song, which was written by Katharine Lee Bates, was partially inspired by a view she saw at Pike's Peak in Colorado. I'd taken a road trip back in 1995, with a key attraction being Yellowstone National Park, but we also took a drive up to the summit of Pike's Peak on that trip. I took a photo on the way down that always reminded me of "America the Beautiful", and I knew I wanted to use that as cover art for my version of the song. While looking for the original 35mm negative to scan for cover art, I ended up scanning all 30 of the rolls of film from that 1995 road trip. Later I combined a number of images from that trip with various other photos I've taken over the decades of beautiful natural areas in the USA in a slideshow music video for the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU69OR8e0YU

The recording is now available on all popular streaming and download sites. Some of the most popular sites are lined at http://smarturl.it/RP-America.

Rick

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