{"id":224,"date":"2017-06-28T20:59:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T20:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2020-10-09T10:42:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T10:42:56","slug":"happy-fourth-of-july-from-fredgrams-com-americas-treasury-of-national-anthems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/happy-fourth-of-july-from-fredgrams-com-americas-treasury-of-national-anthems\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Musical Greeting Cards for Independence Day<br>FredGrams celebrating America&#8217;s Treasury of National Anthems"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/card_list\/93\"><strong>Go directly to the musical INDEPENDENCE DAY CARDS at FREDGRAMS.COM.<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_270\" style=\"width: 411px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/card_list\/93\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-270\" class=\"wp-image-270 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/24756891899_cddd1bb42f_z1.jpg\" alt=\"2)4756891899_cddd1bb42f_z[1]\" width=\"401\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/24756891899_cddd1bb42f_z1.jpg 401w, https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/24756891899_cddd1bb42f_z1-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/24756891899_cddd1bb42f_z1-400x638.jpg 400w, https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/24756891899_cddd1bb42f_z1-260x415.jpg 260w, https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/24756891899_cddd1bb42f_z1-100x160.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/card_list\/93\/\"><strong>FOURTH OF JULY<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0As a musical video greeting\u00a0card site, <a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\">FredGrams.com<\/a>\u00a0celebrates <a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/category_thumb\/index\/1\">every major holiday<\/a> (and virtually <a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/category_thumb\/index\/2\">every imaginable occasion<\/a>)\u00a0in song. Naturally, this includes that\u00a0most patriotic moment on the American calendar, Independence Day, aka Fourth of July, Fireworks Day, the occasion of America&#8217;s Declaration of Independence.\u00a0We have always been a singing people,\u00a0and our favorite patriotic\u00a0songs (<a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/card_list\/93\/\">all FredGrams<\/a>!)\u00a0provide a running account of\u00a0our history: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/preview_jw\/325\">Yankee Doodle<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/preview_jw\/285\">Star Spangled Banner<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;America <a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/preview_jw\/176\">(My Country &#8216;Tis Of Thee)&#8221;, <\/a>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/preview_jw\/177\">America The Beautiful<\/a>,&#8221; George M. Cohan&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/preview_jw\/499\">Yankee Doodle Boy\/Grand Old Flag<\/a>&#8221; and, Irving Berlin&#8217;s &#8220;God Bless America.&#8221; Alas, the latter,\u00a0unofficially\u00a0our second National Anthem, is not in public domain, so at the moment, it is not\u00a0yet included among the <a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/card_list\/93\/6\">FredGrams song\u00a0treasury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/card_list\/93\/6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-278\" src=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8J381.jpg\" alt=\"8)J38[1]\" width=\"324\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8J381.jpg 324w, https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8J381-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8J381-260x404.jpg 260w, https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8J381-100x156.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There\u00a0is a multitude of musical ways to wish friends and family a Happy Fourth of July. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/preview_jw\/495\">Pledge of Allegiance<\/a>\u00a0provides a common\u00a0expression of loyalty to our American heritage.\u00a0What Fourth of July parade does not include Sousa&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/preview_jw\/286\">Stars And Stripes Forever<\/a>?!&#8221;\u00a0One&#8217;s sense\u00a0of gratitude\u00a0for being American\u00a0is enhanced\u00a0by the\u00a0warm weather\u00a0and all the special\u00a0memories, associations and joys\u00a0of summer: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/preview_jw\/601\">Take Me Out To\u00a0The Ballgame<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/preview_jw\/237\">In The Good Old Summertime<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0The beautiful\u00a0Shaker song &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/preview_jw\/676\">Simple Gifts<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0is presented as a\u00a0MidSummer meditation, visually brought to life through the idyllic\u00a0summer\u00a0scenes of\u00a0New England artist Winslow Homer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is so much for which to be grateful;\u00a0being free and American rightfully tops any list of\u00a0blessings.\u00a0These American songs\u00a0bring it all\u00a0alive for us, year after year.<\/p>\n<p>That said (and sung), we wish you a most gratitude-filled, Happy Independence Day!<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/card_list\/93\"><strong>Go directly to the musical INDEPENDENCE DAY CARDS at FREDGRAMS.COM.<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/fredgrams-history-independence-day-4th-july\/\">Read\u00a0about the history of Independence Day<\/a> on this FREDGRAMS blog.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go directly to the musical INDEPENDENCE DAY CARDS at FREDGRAMS.COM. \u00a0As a musical video greeting\u00a0card site, FredGrams.com\u00a0celebrates every major holiday (and virtually every imaginable occasion)\u00a0in song. Naturally, this includes that\u00a0most patriotic moment on the American calendar, Independence Day, aka Fourth&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/happy-fourth-of-july-from-fredgrams-com-americas-treasury-of-national-anthems\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16,14,3,20,15,10,1,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}