Hell, I remember that snafu! I was there! The title of the song is "I'm Proud to be an American" and I remember as I said the James Brown snafu. I was stationed aboard the USS Kennedy at the time in the Red Sea. You might add "The Long, Long Trail' but you're right about smarmy songs. "Home Sweet Home" was number one with a bullet on both sides during the Civil War. I can remember one night being off Jeddah Saudi Arabia and some one started sing the theme to the Brady Bunch (A sitcom popular in the 1970s in the U.S. for all of our foriegn veiwers)That did the trick for me and everyone else in the berthing compartment. Go figure. And you thought "Kumbaya" was bad. Kindest reguards, Neil