God Bless the USA
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| "God Bless the USA" | |||||
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| Single by Lee Greenwood | |||||
| from the album You've Got a Good Love Comin' | |||||
| Released | 1984 | ||||
| Genre | Patriotic, Country | ||||
| Length | 3:11 | ||||
| Label | MCA Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Lee Greenwood | ||||
| Producer | Jerry Crutchfield | ||||
| Lee Greenwood singles chronology | |||||
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"God Bless the USA" is an American patriotic song written by country musician Lee Greenwood. The first Greenwood album it appears on is 1984's You've Got A Good Love Comin'. It reached number 7 on the country charts when originally released in 1984, and was played at the 1984 Republican National Convention with President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan in attendance, but the song was first widely heard during the Gulf War in 1990 and 1991, as a way of boosting morale.
A music video was released for this song in 1984, depicting Greenwood as a farmer who loses the family farm. The popularity of the song rose sharply since the September 11, 2001 attacks and during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the song was re-released as a single, re-entering the country music charts at #16. The song could often be heard on the radio after those events, and versions of the song are widely distributed online.
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[edit] Chart positions
| Chart (1984) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs | 7 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks | 26 |
| Chart (2001) | Peak position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs | 16 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 16 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks | 12 |
[edit] Other versions
Kristy Lee Cook performed this song on American Idol Season 7. She also re-recorded it again for her major label debut album, Why Wait. Another version of the song was made by American R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles. It also was by Christian band Jump5 from their first studio album Jump5.
[edit] Parody
The song was parodied in 2007 as "We Hate The USA" on Rush Limbaugh's radio show with Paul Shanklin singing the voices of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jesse Jackson, and Ted Kennedy. It is part of Shanklin's 2008 Christmas CD gift.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Ferguson, James (31) [2005]. "11". in Aradhana Sharma (in English) (Paperback). The Anthropology of the State: A Reader. Blackwell Readers in Anthropology. Akhil Gupta (1 ed.). Wiley. pp. 424. ISBN 1405114681.
