Music – 1982 – Ray Charles – America The Beautiful – Scenic Backdrops Washington National Monuments
“America the Beautiful“ is an American patriotic song….with lyrics written by Katharine Lee Bates….while the music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey…..as the two never met…..when Bates originally wrote the words as a poem, “Pikes Peak“…..which was first published in the Fourth of July edition of the church periodical The Congregationalist in 1895. At that time,…