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...afternoon of September 11, 2001, a group of Senators and Congressmen stood on the Capitol steps and sang that something-more-than-a-song. Two nights later, when Broadway turned its lights back on, the casts of "The Producers" and other shows led theatergoers in renditions of the same song...
...joined traders in singing it. That evening, as major league baseball games resumed around the country, it replaced "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" as the theme song of the seventh-inning stretch. Over the next weeks, everyone - Celine Dion, Marc Anthony, N.Y.P.D. officer Daniel Rodriguez, the whole country - sang "God Bless America...
...associated with Fred Astaire, who danced to it in the 1946 "Blue Skies." But Astaire was the third star to sing it on film. First was Harry Richman, who had a #1 hit when he premiered the song in a 1930 film of the same name. Dear Mr. Gable "sang" it in "Idiot?s Delight," in 1939; then Astaire made it his own. For Mel Brooks fans, the definitive rendition is by Peter Boyle, as the top-hatted monster in the 1974 "Young Frankenstein." We have to wonder what Berlin thought of this interpretation, or of the jaunty techno...
...Edinburgh-born race-car driver DARIO FRANCHITTI, 28, were reportedly 10 minutes into their wedding ceremony when a golf cart used to ferry guests around caught fire. The brief blaze was not the only excitement. Rumors of DeNiro, Paltrow, Douglas and Zeta-Jones cameos proved false, but other Judds sang Love Can Build a Bridge. Inside, fires blazed in their proper places, and the marriage bed was strewn with specially airlifted-in red rose petals--and extra tartan blankies...
...Need You are not the musical indicators of a lighthearted romantic. So when the Beatles disintegrated in 1970 and the air was full of moist-eyed tributes, it was not surprising that Harrison replied with the resolute detachment he had learned from Eastern religion. "All things must pass," he sang. "All things must pass away...