At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.

Tracks include the 1970s Joe Cocker hit " You Are So Beautiful ", the Beach Boys ' " Disney Girls " and jazz standards such as " My Buddy ", which Day originally sang in her 1951 film I'll See You in My Dreams.

* " Free ", by Plumb from Beautiful Lumps of Coal

A retrospective of the director's films was hosted at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during February 1994, and another, " The Sad and Beautiful World of Jim Jarmusch ", by the American Film Institute in August 2005.

The work also had a timely resonance for those swept away by the emerging Romantic movement and the theory of the " noble savage ", and it echoed the popularity of Burke's seminal A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful ( 1757 ).

After a rendition of " Beautiful Day ", the band launched into " MLK " and " Where the Streets Have No Name ", both featuring two backdrops with the names of victims of the 9 / 11 attacks floating into the sky behind the band.

" The Undertones did, however, release two studio singles, " Beautiful Friend " and " The Love Parade ", in February and October, however both of the singles the band released failed to make an impact upon the UK charts.

The piece, titled " My Mummy Was Beautiful ", was dedicated to Lennon's mother, Julia, who had died when Lennon was a teenager.

* July – Mary Rogers, the " Beautiful Cigar Girl ", American murder victim ( b. c. 1820 )

* E. F. Schumacher, " Small is Beautiful ", Harper and Row, New York, New York, 1989.

Many of the songs from these shows are still sung and remembered, including " The Most Beautiful Girl in the World ", " My Romance ", " Little Girl Blue ", " I'll Tell the Man in the Street ", " There's a Small Hotel ", " Where or When ", " My Funny Valentine ", " The Lady is a Tramp ", " Falling in Love with Love ", " Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered ", and " Wait Till You See Her ".

Their collaboration produced many well-known songs, including " Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin '", " People Will Say We're in Love ", " Oklahoma!

Some names are ironic, like: Bellavista (" Beautiful View ", a vain but ugly man ) or Fracasso ( Italian: " Skirmish " or " Big Noise ").

* On Kanye West's album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Gil Scott-Heron's track " Comment # 1 ", in which Nat Turner is mentioned, is part of Track 13: " Who Will Survive in America ".

" America the Beautiful " is an American patriotic song.

* Lynn Sherr's 2001 book America the Beautiful discusses the origins of the song and the backgrounds of its authors in depth.

* Barbara Younger has written a children's book about the writing of the song: Purple Mountain Majesties: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates and " America the Beautiful ".

The song " Beautiful World " was also used in a re-recorded form for an ad for Target stores.

* 1975: Shirley Bassey recorded Arthur Greenslade's arrangement of the song on the album Good, Bad, but Beautiful.

* 1978: Frankie Laine recorded the song for his British album Life is Beautiful.

" Waits also contributed vocals to a duet with singer Bob Forrest on the song " Adios Lounge " on the Thelonious Monster album Beautiful Mess.

They also recorded a cover of the Disney song, " There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow " for the movie Meet the Robinsons and wrote and performed the theme song for The Drinky Crow Show.

The band released " You're Gone " as the lead single from the album, which reached No. 7, making it the first Marillion song to reach the UK Top Ten since " Incommunicado " in 1987 and the band's first Top 40 entry since " Beautiful " in 1995.

In 2006, the label denied " Weird Al " Yankovic permission to release " You're Pitiful ", a parody of James Blunt's " You're Beautiful ", despite Blunt's own approval of the song.

* In 2011, composer Jade Esteban Estrada wrote the song " Beautiful " for the musical, ICONS: The Lesbian and Gay History of the World, Vol.

( What a Beautiful World )", a 1982 song by Donald Fagen

* Varna, Beautiful Varna – song by Los Paraguayos

In 2002, Horner and Jennings contributed a song for the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind.

** The band performed a cover of the theme song to the Carousel of Progress (" There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow ") on the soundtrack to the film Meet the Robinsons.

In late 2009 the Warp20 ( Recreated ) compilation featured two BoC covers, one by Bibio of their song " Kaini Industries " and one by Mira Calix of " In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country ".

The opening Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin sequence in the 1955 film Oklahoma !, with Gordon MacRae singing the famous song while riding a horse past the stalks of corn " as high as a elephant's eye ", was filmed in Amado.

The Beautiful South reference the town in the first line of their 2004 song ' This Old Skin ' which masqueraded as a cover version of an original by the imaginary band The Heppelbaums.

The song has since been covered by The Beautiful South for their 2004 album Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs, as well as by Starsailor who recorded it for BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge.

In 2006, Brown appeared adding vocals to Damian Marley's song " Beautiful " on Marley's album, Welcome to Jamrock.

* " Halcyon ( Beautiful Days )", a song by Mono from Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined

* " The Story ", song by 30 Seconds to Mars from their album A Beautiful Lie

In 1973, Cleo Laine wrote lyrics and recorded it as the song " He Was Beautiful " accompanied by John Williams.

While that national dichotomy has stymied any effort at changing the tradition of the national anthem, " America the Beautiful " continues to be held in high esteem by a large number of Americans.

Possibly the most notable current version of " America the Beautiful " is the setting for band and symphonic orchestra by the late arranger / conductor / composer Carmen Dragon.

An all-star version of " America the Beautiful " performed by country singers Trace Adkins, Billy Dean, Vince Gill, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Toby Keith, Brenda Lee, Lonestar, Martina McBride, Jamie O ' Neal, Kenny Rogers and Keith Urban reached number 58 in July 2001.

Symbolically, Marian Anderson ( a noted opera singer of her day ) sang a rendition of " America the Beautiful " on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being refused use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her skin color.

* Beautiful Australian Outback-slideshow by Life magazine

* " The Bronx Is Beautiful " by Robert Klein

For over a year, Kabir starred in The Bold and the Beautiful, the second most-watched television show in the world, seen by over a billion people in 149 countries.

Kansas City, guided by architect George Kessler, became a forefront example of the City Beautiful movement, developing a network of boulevards and parks around the city.

Bosworth's design was influenced by the City Beautiful Movement of the early 1900s, and features the Pantheon-esque Great Dome housing the Barker Engineering Library.

Also in the Symposium, Plato describes how the experience of the Beautiful by Socrates enables him to resist the temptations of wealth and sex.

Health and medical propaganda films include The Pace That Kills ( 1935, cocaine ), The Terrible Truth ( 1951, Sid Davis, anti-marijuana / heroine ), Case Study series by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation ( 1969, amphetamines, barbituates, heroine, LSD ), Hoxsey: Quacks Who Cure Cancer ( 1988 ) about the Hoxsey Therapy, The Beautiful Truth ( 2008 ) about the Gerson method for treating cancer, the anti-vaccine The Greater Good, Burzynski The Movie: Cancer Is Serious Business ( 2010 ), and Michael Moore's Sicko ( 2007 ) about the health care industry.

In 2001, Crowe's portrayal of mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John F. Nash in the biopic A Beautiful Mind brought him numerous awards, including an BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor category Motion Picture Drama and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.

Sherrié was named one of 2011's " 25 Most Beautiful People " by Nashville Lifestyles Magazine.

With her recent work at the time, she cemented her It girl status with her first appearance on the ' Most Beautiful ' list by People magazine.

His design was influenced by the City Beautiful ideals of Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and the garden city movement principles of Henry Vivian.

* Szabó, Tania ( 2007 ) Young Brave and Beautiful: the Missions of Special Operations Executive Agent, Lieutenant Violette Szabó, George Cross, Croix de Guerre avec Etoile de bronze, St Helier: distributed by Tania Szabó, ISBN 1-905095-20-1.

* Treating Code as an Essay-Matz's writeup for the book Beautiful Code, edited by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, O ' Reilly, 2007.

* March 24 – The 74th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California with the film A Beautiful Mind winning Best Picture.

* " It's Such a Beautiful Day " by Isaac Asimov is set in 2117.

Leone also produced three comedies by actor / director Carlo Verdone, which were Fun Is Beautiful ( Un Sacco Bello, 1980 ), Bianco, Rosso e Verdone ( White, Red and Verdone – Verdone means " strong green " – a pun referring to the three colours of the Italian flag, the star and to director Verdone, 1981 ) and Troppo Forte ( Great !, 1986 ).

The designs of the City Beautiful Movement ( closely tied with the municipal art movement ) are identifiable by their classical architecture, plan symmetry, picturesque views, axial plans, as well as their magnificent scale.

Beautiful Girls is a 1996 American film directed by Ted Demme and starring Matt Dillon, Lauren Holly, Timothy Hutton, Rosie O ' Donnell, Martha Plimpton, Natalie Portman, Michael Rapaport, Mira Sorvino, and Uma Thurman.