The National Anthem on TV-"Flag Evolution"
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- Опубликовано: 10 апр 2009
- This is a clip of the National Anthem played when networks sign off for the night. This was played on WITI Fox 6 when it signed off for transmitter maintence only once in 2004. After that it never signed off for the night.
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America:
From a mere colony on the coast,
To becoming the first colony in Space.
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It might be dated but this is my favorite version of the Star Spangled Banner I've heard and the visual part is almost like a quick history lesson of America
This is my favorite version of the Star Spangled banner too.
Totally agree ....a 2 minute history lesson if I ever saw one, I love this the BEST. This was the sign-off years ago and I would actually wait to watch it before I shut the TV off. Our Channel 29 out of Philadelphia 👍❤️
The photos need to be changed to include our American Indian communities in a more positive way.
I would wait up until this came on too@@jacquelineiona1996
I may not be an American but this rendition of Star-Spangled Banner gave me goosebumps!! :D Nice one!!
Well said, Pablo... You don't have to be American to feel good about this vid or the Star Spangled Banner. ;)
boofdfast Thank you for that!! :D
You're Welcome. Lol
Thank you 🙏 this is my favorite anthem and I am American ❤️🤍💙 thank you for your kind words
Philippines is the country in Southeast Asia to replace The Star-Spangled Banner following its independence from U.S.
The pictures in this 1971 video depict the events in our country's history, of which the stars on our flag changed. What memories.
*Sighs* really miss the old days alot, it will make me even more sad as the decade goes by. Let these old classic versions remain in our hearts for all eternity ♥
This was definitely one of the best TV sign offs ever. Who ever found all those historical photos and graphics of the way the American flag evolved from 1776 until Alaska and Hawaii joined the US in 1959 did a lot of research to put this together. Could it have been assembled by a history professor? It's a great way albeit short of teaching our nation's history. I feel you can learn a lot about history from a nation's flag. An outstanding sign off.
I've always felt like this was a great lesson in our history
This was made in 1971, and it capitalizes America's brightest moments from the Revolution until that year. So it makes sense that the last clip is the Man on the Moon, which had been only two years prior and still ongoing at the time (Apollo 14)
Gone are the days of the TV sign-offs. Sweet memories now. Thanks for posting!!!
I use to stay up as late as possible hoping to catch this when I was a young boy
WHNT TV 19 still does the national anthem during a break in the CBS Overnight News, around 3:55 am Huntsville, Alabama, time. They use a lot of different recordings made in a studio in Nashville of singers singing the anthem. It may not be as grand as the old films but I AM proud that a station here in Alabama still stands for our flag.
The recording used on this film was by Bob Sharples & His Military Band, from the London Phase 4 album "America On The March" (SP-44033, 1964). Many who owned copies spoke of having worn out the grooves on this track by repeated plays. A shame there has never been a restoration job on this film, with the original stereo track used and sync'd to the picture.
+wmbrown6 I remember when I was in elementary school, everyone had to take music classes, and we had a CD or cassette with a rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner." It was similar to this one in that it did a single verse before repeating the part from "And the rocket's red glare" onward. However, it had the lyrics performed by a chorus and didn't feature a military-style band, instead going with more of a piano-based sound.
Oh my! Thank you for sharing this information sir! This is my favorite rendition by far! I wish they would restore this and play it again in the middle of the night and the middle of the day! Just because 👍🙏
I hope this is remade with astronauts with a flag on mars in the future
We have no business being on Mars. God has set the bounds of our habitation.
sprayarm Only you have no business being on the planet then. Long live the Queen and God bless the United States.
@@sprayarm Shut up you dumb backwards feudalist redcoat.
America was built under all religion.
But if we continue like we are we shall never get into it. Ever.
@@sprayarm we're still going to mars
The night I came back from three months in Israel in 1975, I stayed up until WAVE (Louisville) went off the air, just so I could hear this as my own "welcome home." It has brought tears to my eyes ever since.
Alan Zukof me too, brother
I'll be honest here. I am a Canadian. This is the best version of the SSB EVER to date. The ending makes this big dude wanna cry as well so I don't blame you folks for being emotional at all.
+MrTantraMan As an American (of partial Canadian descent), I reciprocate that feeling toward "O Canada." That is one of my favorite national anthems other than our own.
@@MrTantraMan This rendition is beautiful, But, Sandi Patty legit made MILLIONS get goosebumps!!! This rendition of The National Anthem in the video link is so American and Patriotic that it's great enough for a Patriotic introduction or better-yet grand finale of a Fourth of July Fireworks show! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
ruclips.net/video/PiPau4d32xE/видео.html
god bless god everybody loves Israel
I remember wnew tv 5 starting and ending the broadcast day with this flag evolution!
"The Star Spangled Banner", arranged by Bob Sharples conducting the London Festival Orchestra of DECCA Records.
It appears as track number ten on the album "America On the March" first released in 1963 and available these days in brilliant stereo on CD.
say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave
2:23 is a hidden verse and it goes “Americaaaa, myyyy home!!!”
Gotta love the 20th Century, so much invention and change, happened during the greatest century of mankind. Love seeing the cars incorporated into the video. Like a history lesson in one.
True... But NO memorable wars(thank goodness), or world changing events happened in the 21st Century. What you mentioned we're only improvements... Not invented.
Computers, the Internet, etc... Were all invented in previous centuries. Tablets are just smaller computers. So no new advents happened in the 21st Century. So...
Being born American when my parents aren't will forever resonate within my heart.
WRAL in Raleigh, NC played this for their sign off/on when I was a little fellow. I'm 54 now and still am deeply stirred when I hear it. The trumpet part at the end, I'm sure, is what made me want to be a trumpet player. What a soaring aria. I have looked for this for 20 years and Mr. John Harris, at WRAL helped me find it. Thank you, John! God Bless America.
I'm 55 , I don't remember what station used this for there sign off but when I was young I used to stay up until this came on sometimes it wouldn't come on until 3 or 4am
Jeffrey Padgett the piece was called “Flag Evolution” and can be found with a quick RUclips search. A guy from WRAL in Raleigh, NC gave me the lowdown
I remember being in school in Durham at NCCU and heard it while I was up studying.
So that's where I saw this.
Best version ever of the star spangled banner - I never knew where it came from till recently. Unforgettable station signoff, would stay up often to hear it. Bob Sharples' musical genius truly captured the majesty of this anthem, as he did with many other compositions. This amazing rendition of SSB will hopefully be recognized more widely in the future. I wish our military bands would play this arrangement. Thank you for posting!
Agreed. This is a fantastic arrangement.
Mr. Sharples was actually British, which makes his work on this recording all the more notable.
People need to watch this around these times
Ya darn tootin’
I know right
I also watched this on WAVE-TV, Louisville, KY, and it always gave me goosebumps, too! There has never been a better rendition of the American National Anthem, and the only thing it suffered from was the lack of fidelity that televisions had when this was the sign-off. It is significant even today. It is such a pity our history still has not taken us beyond the moon, yet. What more inspiration do you need to reach for the stars?
WRAL-TV 5, the CBS affiliate in Raleigh, also used this signoff as late as 1992. They did not retain the copyright notice at the end.
I'm proud to be an American.
Some admire people like actors, Singers and shit. I admire those who fought and is fighting for our freedom
Thanks for posting this, the sound quality is the best I've found for this one.
We sign-off fans call this particular film "Flag Evolution". The reasons you see in the film.
WITI's fellow Fox stations WNYW in NYC and WTAF/WTXF Philly also used this film.
Awesome, love the arrangement AND never saw this in color before. Yes, I'm old.
Mississippi ETV used this evolution film at sing on sign off back in the day
WCET played this in Cincinnati in the early 70's and I've been looking for this for 30 years! Thanks for posting this. It is awesome!
WAVE TV in Louisville Ky. used to use this as well. I haven't heard this in ages.
BTW, this is my all time favorite rendition. Majestic, powerful & moving. No other version I've ever heard comes close. Even as a kid I was deeply moved hearing & watching this.
I remember this as the sign-on of WTAF-TV 29 Phila. in the mid-1970's, when their broadcast day started at 9:00 AM.
Wow does this bring back memories! I remember watching this in the early to mid 80's when I was in my early teens. It would come on WPIX in New York. Before we had a VCR for me to record it, I would set my alarm clock to wake me up early in the morning, just so I could watch it, then I'd go back to sleep. I have been looking for this for years on youtube. I never knew it was called Flag Evolution.
I miss TV sign-offs, too. When I was a teenager in the 70's and couldn't sleep at night, I would watch them (and if I got up early in the morning, I would watch sign-ons, too). However, I respectfully disagree - I found this version *too* emotional (and somewhat melancholy) as it made me long for my younger days; I remember WOOD-TV, Channel 8 in Grand Rapids, Michigan used this 1971 SSB film for their sign-offs and sign-ons, as well as WNYW (and WNEW before that), Channel 5 in NYC.
The one SSB film I *really* liked, however, was the "moog" version from 1975, which began with a panning shot of Mt. Rushmore over a tympani drumroll and ended with a zooming in on the flag, ending up in the blue field of stars with a "whooshing" sound effect. That one was more compact and *upbeat,* and reminds me of happier times during my "wonder years."
I use to stay up late just to watch this when I was 10 or 11 I always liked this version and I played trumpet in my school band and we had to play this but it didn't sound anything like this
this gave me goosebumb
It was the mid 70s and either ch 11 or ch 5 in NYC that closed their broadcast day and opened the broadcast day with this exact rendition of the Star Spangled Banner ,,,,,, best of all time for me , thanks so very much for sharing this with us all , God Bless America .
Beautiful...recall seeing it everynight on mississippi pbs
The Greatest Nation on Earth...and beyond...
I never thought I'd see this again! Thanks for sharing! I remember seeing this during the signoffs at the Miami station WTVJ (I think that's the call letters). Great work, wish it could be updated with today's events.
I remember when WBZ-TV in Boston ended their broadcast day with this version of the national anthem. And before that, they would have an Evening Prayer, which would either be a bible reading or some hearing-impaired kids at Crotched Mountain give the Lord's Prayer in ASL.
Great version, this was also used by an old TV station in Fawn Circle, Minnesota called K83FC. It went under in 1983 after a terrible blizzard and several broadcast hijackings
There's never been a version like it before and none like it since. Of course, I have a soft spot for Sandy Patti's 1986 version that ended ABC's coverage of "Liberty Weekend." But this is the tops!
This makes me feel special
This is my favorite rendition of the Anthem and how our flag has transformed over 200 years
Beautiful rendition!
Respect from Philippines
Looking at this video, especially during these times of struggle within the US, makes me proud to be an American.
If you know the lyrics, the lines "Conquer if we must, for our cause it is just" occur just after the Flag of Rebellion comes on screen. Coincidence, or pointed political commentary by the original video editors? Oh yeah, that's at 1:00 on this video.
Too beautiful for words!
I remember watching this in the 70s on ch 11 in NYC as its closing the broadcast day and starting the broadcast day,,,,,,,,, I would stay up just to watch this,,,, so beautiful.
@ Alan Zukof, you're not the only one with tears in your eyes, brother.
This was used by WRAL-TV during the 1980s!
...and the '70s!
WITI Used to sign off every Sunday Night/ Monday Morning at around 1AM and return about 6AM for morning news.
WITI and WNEW-TV (pre-1978, and definitely pre-Fox WNYW) were the only stations I know of to show the ending copyright notice crediting the production company (Saxton Graphic Associates, Ltd.) and the year it was produced (1971).
(In the immediate period after WNEW became WNYW, they resumed using the original Flag Evolution "SSB," but I can't tell if they retained that copyright notice at the end.)
National Screen Service also distributed this to drive-in theaters during the 1970's. Their name was included in a slightly different copyright notice at the end.
Note from the Simpsons
BEST NATIONAL ANTHEM VIDEO EVER!
I remember in the mid-1980s WAVY/10 in Norfolk, VA used that SSB film.
tam0165 me too
before WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh, PA, had "Aim High America SSB", they had this one for sign-on/sign-off. It brings back good memories.
WTOP-TV/WDVM/WUSA in Washington, D.C. used that SSB from 1971 until it's began Broadcast 24 hours day.
I'm from that location.
I love this video. It is like a picture version of We Didn't Start the Fire of history before that song.
I remember seeing this on KMPH channel 26
when they signed off for the night.
I do remember when then-WTOP/WDVM Ch. 9 used the copyright until mid 1980.(I'm a lifetime Washington, DC area resident.) I don't know others.
It is vary rair to find a market that has a tv station that signs off still. So far i only know of 3 tv markets that still do that.
I too would stay up a few minutes longer way back when, just to listen to this version during my local station's sign-off. The part that always gets me is that little pause around 1:50 followed by the powerful return for the "gave proof through the night" line of the song. An excellent quality version of this recording can be heard here:
ruclips.net/video/ybi7bGv0YZw/видео.html
+ ED NORTON That recording is also available on CD now.
A real patriot would cry at this.
That’s why I did.
God Bless the U.S.A.
@PGMEagle: That's where I remember this version of the National Anthem!
Still the best rendition!!!
Thanks! Needs a restoration and a 4K 60fps upconversion though.
Standing United With America And As We Honor America And Home Of The Brave And We Are All America
This was also the version of the SSB that was used in the EAS scenario “America’s Last Month.”
This was used by WNEW-TV NYC (now WNYW Fox 5) between 1971-88. I was wondering what happened to it.
I like witney Houston's version as well as this one only the 48 star segment left out the events and pics of the late 40s and 50s leading up to Alaska and Hawaii becoming states.
@PGMEagle they still do; every sunday i think.
Actually, some TV stations still do sign-off, but usually only to do technical maintenance.
I'm not even American but this makes me feel proud to know some of my ancestors may have emigrated there
And that's exactly what I think
Does anyone know the original recording or performance used in this video? I'm looking for it on CD.
(And I hope whoever owns this video or the copyright now will remaster it and save it before it gets lost in the dustbin of history.)
Interesting... some of the techniques that Ken Burns uses to showcase still photographs in his documentaries were anticipated in this clip-- years before Burns got to them.
If I were a little kid back in the 70s and I saw this, I’d probably have nightmares for an entire month. That creepy audio.
WAVE of Louisville KY used this for their sign off in the early 2000s.
1:01 💀
Yeah, the national anthem sign-off very & most patriotic , the they went 24-hr. what the heck is wrong with society these days?
Even though I'm Finn, I feel patriotic towards the USA
Would be perfect for an orchestra to play this arrangement with the film showing on screens above. Is there some copyright problem? Never heard it live. Such interesting change of harmonies in the reprise.
+ highlandsh The arrangement is by British conductor Robert Sharples (1913-1987) so I assume the copyright and licensing were with his estate unless they were sold.
We Honor America And Standing United With America
does anyone know the name of the brass instrumental prior to the anthem?
It sounds very much like trumpets , I played trumpet in my high school band
KONO in San Antonio plays this version national anthem @ noon
May God Bless the United States of America! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
this should be extended and include recent events. i wouldn't use the actual star-spangled banner until the depression era (after all, it didn't become the anthem until 1931). key events (for me) include: the rise of 24-hour television, the end of the cold war, windows 95, "i did not have sex with that woman", the dot-com bubble, y2k, 9/11, the ensuing war on terror, the advent of social media, obama's victory, and trump's conquest.
1:52 Is that a reference of F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby?
0:23 Первый Флаг США похож на Флаг ЕС!Возможно ЕС - это был проект США!Совпадение - и не думаю!
the EU is a US project. Who is denying it? And why does that matter?
Which leads to this question: Which stations would have followed WNEW/WNYW and WITI"s example?
Quite possibly the best national anthem in the history of existence for America, that's for sure.
Where can I find the original music...???
+Bill Michael
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Great presentation, work of art really, worthy of its subject. Having said that, never thought I’d see Joseph Stalin in an us anthem! Ha ha
America kicks ass!
Did WAVY have the copyright notice at the end, or fade/cut out after the final shot of the flag on the moon?
wmbrown6 I remember wavy tv 10 using this
Oh, say! can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming;
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:
Oh, say! does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave
God Bless America, warts and all. 🇺🇲
Hello! Who are the faces of the people who are shown here? I know of some, but who are the rest?
Some you may recognize include George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, and Neil Armstrong. There was also a British Redcoat soldier, but I don't know who that was. There are quite a few that I don't know of personally.
I remember watching this one, then the test pattern. The farm report would then come on at 5 am, if I remember right.
It’s too bad that the timeline at the end jumps from 1945 to 1969. I would’ve liked to have seen Ike, JFK, early TV, the Beatles, and the Civil Rights Movement among the moon landing and other moments.
left out the late 40s and 50s in the 48 star segment like the Korean war,the berlin airlift,dewey defeats Truman,the boeing 707,TV,disneyland,i love lucy,the suburbs,MLK,elvis,chuck berry,jackie robinson,jonas salk,57 chevy,rock & roll debuts, the edsel,marilyn Monroe,hollywood,i like ike,and superman.
Even if there is a Confederate flag I think the great performance will bring out the Americanism in the people and not mind about the flag, hopefully
IM AMERICOOMING
WAVY/10 didn't display it, and neither did WLYH/15 in Lancaster, PA in the '70s.
Adelante 20 segundos para el inicio del himno nacional de los Estados Unidos de América.