"She said she was serious, so I went home and wrote words for 10 songs and sent them to her," Hatch said. Several months later Perry met Hatch again in Washington. "She said that she'd heard I wrote poetry and wondered if I had anything she could set to music. He met Utah songwriter Janice Kapp Perry at a funeral. I got to where I could play the hymns pretty well, but that was about it."īut it was not the music as much as his love of words that got him into songwriting for the most part, he writes the words and collaborates with other musicians for the melodies. "Boy, was I glad when electric organs came along.
He also remembers playing the old pump organ in his Pennsylvania LDS ward. Of course, now I wish I had kept with it." "I played the violin all through high school," he said. Hatch's musical roots go back to his childhood. "Many patriotic songs have a spiritual element that expresses faith," he said, and many spiritual songs have a patriotic element of faith and love of country, as well.
And while many of his songs have been spiritual in nature, quite a number have also been patriotic, However, there is a fine line between the two, he said in a telephone chat from his Washington, D.C., office. For the past 20 years or so, the senator has pursued an interest in - and talent for - songwriting. Hatch himself has contributed some threads to that fabric. The stories it tells of events and sacrifices have become part of our national heritage, part of the fabric of our country." Over the centuries, he says, patriotic music "has stirred our souls.
There's not anything that can take its place." "It has always played a central role in who we are and what we have sacrificed for as a nation. "Patriotic music holds an intense emotional power," says Sen. Throughout history, in times of hardship and sacrifice, Americans have turned to song again and again - praising the sight "by the dawn's early light" of the American flag pledging "as He died to make men holy let us die to make men free" rallying around the cry to go "Over There" asking that "God Bless America." But this time, the words proclaimed: "Come, join Hand in Hand, brave AMERICANS all, And rouse your bold Hearts to fair LIBERTY's Call No tyrannous Acts shall suppress your just Claim, Or stain with Dishonor AMERICA's Name." It was actually a redux of "Heart of Oak," which had celebrated the British victory in the French and Indian War. What many consider America's first patriotic song, for example, was "The Liberty Song," printed in a Boston newspaper in July of 1768. In those days, the songs were mostly new words to old melodies, giving them a familiar ring. The Revolution was fought to the cadence of fife and drums, and early songs were used to rally support for the cause. Music has been with America from the beginning.
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