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31 March 2010

Ray Charles In Celebration: The American Spirit (1976)

Celebration: The American Spirit was a "[...] 90-minute Bicentennial celebration supercharged with the vitality and joie de vivre that has made American popular culture the most sought-after commodity in the world", directed by Marty Pasetta, and aired on 25 January 1976 by ABC.
Photo: Disney / Getty.
The format put Shirley MacLaine at the Statue of Liberty, Andy Williams at Arlington Cemetery, Frank Sinatra at the Jefferson Memorial, and Ray Charles, singing (or lipsyncing) America The Beautiful on a Hollywood Hilltop. Source here.

America The Beautiful (partial):

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