[Fiji Hill]

If the protest and leftist themes were prevalent in the folk songs why can’t there be songs celebrating American values, freedoms and achievements?

Here are a few. I only wish they were as well-known and popular as the leftist anthems.

• The Red We Want Is the Red We've Got (In the Old Red, White & Blue)--Eddie Howard (1950)
  The right red, not the wrong red. A brave red, not a slave red!

• Old Glory--Stuart Hamblen (1950)

• The Voice of Free Amereica--Jimmie Osborne (1951)

• I'm No Communist!--Lulu Belle & Scotty (1952)

• The Fiery Bear--Tex Ritter (1950)

• No, No, Joe--Luke the Drifter (Hank Williams) (1950)

• Advice to Joe--Roy Acuff (1951)

• God, Please Protect America--The Sunshine Boys Quartet (1951)

• They Locked God Outside the Iron Curtain--Little Jimmy Dickens (1952)

• Mr. Stalin, You're Eating too High on the Hog--Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith & His Crackerjacks (1950)

• When They Drop the Atomic Bomb--Jackie Doll & His Pickled Peppers (1951)

• Stalin Kicked the Bucket--Ray Anderson (1953)

• The Iron Curtain Has Parted--Don Windle (1953)

• The Red Deck of Cards--Red River Dave (1954)

[frank ballenger]

Wow. Amazing trove of songs that I have never heard.
Thanks.