On June 5, 1973, then-73 year-old Canadian broadcaster Gordon Sinclair gave a commentary on Toronto AM station CFRB entitled "The Americans." Spurred by news regarding a spate of recent, destructive tornadoes, flooding of the Mississippi River and the then-impending bankruptcy of the Salvation Army in the United States, the upshot of Sinclair's editorial's that the U.S. had time and again gone out of their way to aid people around the world, including Canadians, but no other nations were coming to the U.S.'s assistance...and that the U.S. is underappreciated. Sinclair's piece became a sensation, replayed numerous times on Sinclair's home station and aired on throughout the U.S. The piece was soon issued as a single, entitled "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)," wherein Sinclair's recitation was backed by an instrumental of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic,."Perhaps improbably, Sinclair's recording became a top 25 U.S. hit, also scraping the top 30 in his homeland. Before reading this question, had you heard or were familiar with Sinclair's "Americans"?

If my facts are straight, the release of Sinclair's recording of his own work was preceded by a recording of it by much younger Canadian radio personality Byron MacGregor; he was in his mid-20's when his rendition of "The Americans," buoyed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's recording of "America The Beautiful.," was issued. Though MacGregor's age makes Sinclair's line about reading newspapers for over 60 years peculiar, his was the bigger US hit, reaching the top five, though it wasn't successful as Sinclair's in Canada. If you've heard both MacGregor's and Sinclair's recordings, whose do you prefer?

Country remakes of pop hits were somewhat common in the mid-1970's, and actor/singer Tex Ritter plied his pipes to "Americans," with a prologue explaining the work's Canadian origin, giving him his last country top 40 hit (and a posthumous one, as Ritter died in January 1974). Ritter's weren't the only vocals on this rendition though, as he's accompanied by a choir offering "ah"'s over a twangy instrumental of "My Country 'Tis Of Thee." Which of the following aspects of this recording do you find strange?

If you're Canadian or of dual Canadian/U/S. citizenship and whether or not you took issue with U.S. President Trump's comments about tariffs (much less his joke about and/or desire to make your nation part of the United States) and maybe maintained an "elbows up" position in response to those remarks and possibly him overall, do you all the same have an appreciation for the U.S.A. similar or commensurate to Sinclair's and MacGregaor's (Ritters, too?; sure!)?