“You learn how to make a fist / Before you learn to sift through emotions / The translation of boy or man—fixed / cumbersome, leaden, difficult to shift.” Those are a few lines from a musical ...

Could Tennessee have a new state song? Two lawmakers are looking to make just that happen. Tennessee State Rep. Antonio Parkinson and Tennessee State Sen. Raumesh Akbari, both representing Shelby ...

Legislators say the state song is hard to sing, and doesn’t exactly inspire listeners to turn up the volume. A resolution is in the works to get a new arrangement across the airwaves. The current song ...

Russ Diamond has written you a song. You and 13 million other Pennsylvanians who have been living under the pall of an official commonwealth anthem so dull and uninspiring, critics say, it demands a ...

ALL RIGHT. ETHAN. THANK YOU. AS WE MENTIONED EARLIER, THERE’S AN EFFORT TO REPLACE THE STATE’S SONG, A RESOLUTION TO STUDY THE STATE SONG JUST PASSED THE HOUSE, SO WE ASKED FOR YOUR SUGGESTIONS ON THE ...

(WHTM) — A resolution to study replacing the Pennsylvania state song received bipartisan support and will advance to the State Senate. House Resolution 25, sponsored by Rep. Joe Ciresi (D-146) among ...

The Minnesota State Senate is considering a bill to establish additional state songs. A bipartisan group of state senators introduced the bill to include “Purple Rain”, composed by Prince and the ...

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