2 days ago
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- Straits Times
TBR (To Be Read): National Day lyrics and what they say about four decades of Singapore
If Singaporeans know any poetry by heart, it would be the lyrics to the three dozen or so National Day theme songs since 1984.
SINGAPORE – If Singaporeans know any poetry by heart, it is the lyrics to the three dozen or so National Day theme songs that have been penned annually since Hugh Harrison's gung-ho injunction to Stand Up For Singapore in 1984.
Not many know that Singapore's first National Day Song – as well as the vigorous Count On Me Singapore (1986) and We Are Singapore (1987) – were written by a Canadian man who worked at an advertising company hired to come up with the songs.
