🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #20thCenturyRadicals George M. Cohan & Henry Burr and The Peerless Quartet: 🎵 Over There #BBCRadio3 #GeorgeMCohan #HenryBurrandThePeerlessQuartet

#OnThisDay in 1942, #GeorgeMCohan, American father of musical comedy (Phantom President; Give My Regards to Broadway), died of #cancer at 64.
#RIP 🕯

"You're a Grand Old Flag" is an #AmericanPatrioticMarch. The song, a spirited march written by #GeorgeMCohan, is a tribute to the #USFlag. In addition to obvious references to the flag, it incorporates snippets of other popular songs, including one of his own. Cohan wrote it in 1906 for his #stageMusical George Washington, Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VHWtFJiKZA

#OnThisDay in 1936, #GeorgeMCohan is the first artist to be presented with a US Congressional Gold Medal, by Franklin D. Roosevelt (for raising war morale).

"You're a Grand Old Flag" is an #AmericanPatrioticMarch. The song, a spirited march written by #GeorgeMCohan, is a tribute to the #USFlag. In addition to obvious references to the flag, it incorporates snippets of other popular songs, including one of his own. Cohan wrote it in 1906 for his #stageMusical George Washington, Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDyRT7X3eCU