Who else loves Stan Freberg's America?

petrym

This 1961 recording is absolutely brilliant with great tunes and catchy dialog sprinkled with pop culture (of the time) references and calls to well-known American icons. My favorite song is in track 2 -- Columbus Discovers America. One of my favorite funny lines is when King Ferdinand, who of course did not go along in the actual journey, states that his doctor told him to "go to Florida for the winter."

What are your favorites songs/lines in this masterpiece?

PolknPepsi

Hey,

I was born in 1961 and dont remember much music from those days..

petrym

Isabella: Good afternoon, dear. How was the inquisition, amusing?

Ferdinand: Dullsville, same old . . . Hey, who's that?

Isabella: Oh, you remember Christopher Columbus.

Ferdinand: Oh, you mean old "Round, Round World?" You and your Bohemian friend.

Isabella: He's not Bohemian. He's Italian.

Ferdinand: Italian, Bohemian, look at him in that hat! Is that a crazy sailor?

Isabella: Crazy? I'll tell you how crazy! He's a man with a dream, a vision, a vision of a new world, who's alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears, with purple mountain majesties above the two cents plain...

Ferdinand and Columbus: Fruited.

Isabella: Fruited. He holds these dreams to be self-evident, this round, round world, with Indians and justice for all. Let us then go forward, together, towards Miami Beach, that the dream of this crazy Italian boy, indivisible, should not perish from the map!

petrym

"...rumble, rumble, rumble, mutiny, mutiny, mutiny."