# Audio credits

Every track here is a real recorded performance — no MIDI, no synthesis. All
are freely reusable. Each is the complete recording, loudness-normalised to
−16 LUFS and re-encoded to 112 kbit/s MP3; the originals are linked below.

They used to be thirty-second excerpts, looped. The operator asked for the
marches to play through, so the excerpts were replaced with the full
performances on 2026-08-25. The per-track "Edit" lines below describe the old
cuts and are kept for the record; none of the marches is cut any more. The jet
fly-by is still the ten-second cut it says it is.

The four Sousa marches are performances by the United States Marine Band
("The President's Own"). Recordings produced by a US federal government band are
works of the US federal government and therefore in the public domain, and the
compositions themselves lapsed into the public domain long ago.

## Marches

Cued one per flyover, in this order.

### `stars-and-stripes.mp3`

- **Source:** "The Stars and Stripes Forever" (John Philip Sousa, 1896),
  performed by the United States Navy Band
- **Where:** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Stars_and_Stripes_Forever_-_U.S._Navy_Band.ogg
- **Licence:** Public domain
- **Edit:** the grandioso finale, 176s–214s of the original, faded, −17 LUFS

### `washington-post.mp3`

- **Source:** "The Washington Post" (Sousa, 1889), United States Marine Band (2017)
- **Where:** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sousa%27s_%22The_Washington_Post%22_-_United_States_Marine_Band_(2017).mp3
- **Licence:** Public domain
- **Edit:** opening strain, 0s–28s, faded, −17 LUFS

### `semper-fidelis.mp3`

- **Source:** "Semper Fidelis" (Sousa, 1888), United States Marine Band (2016)
- **Where:** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sousa%27s_%22Semper_Fidelis%22_-_United_States_Marine_Band_(2016).mp3
- **Licence:** Public domain
- **Edit:** opening strain, 0s–26s, faded, −17 LUFS

### `el-capitan.mp3`

- **Source:** "El Capitan" (Sousa, 1896), United States Marine Band (2017)
- **Where:** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sousa%27s_%22El_Capitan%22_-_United_States_Marine_Band_(2017).mp3
- **Licence:** Public domain
- **Edit:** opening strain, 0s–26s, faded, −17 LUFS

### `liberty-bell.mp3`

- **Source:** "The Liberty Bell" (Sousa, 1893), United States Marine Band (2017)
- **Where:** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sousa%27s_%22The_Liberty_Bell%22_-_United_States_Marine_Band_(2017).mp3
- **Licence:** Public domain
- **Edit:** opening strain, 0s–28s, faded, −17 LUFS
- **Note:** better known to most listeners as the Monty Python theme. On this
  site that is a feature.

### `star-spangled-banner.mp3`

- **Source:** "The Star-Spangled Banner", United States Navy Band
- **Where:** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22The_Star-Spangled_Banner%22_performed_by_the_United_States_Navy_Band.mp3
- **Licence:** Public domain
- **Edit:** 0s–30s, faded, −17 LUFS

### `america-the-beautiful.mp3`

- **Source:** "America the Beautiful", United States Marine Band (1950s)
- **Where:** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22America_the_Beautiful%22,_performed_by_the_United_States_Marine_Band_in_the_1950s.oga
- **Licence:** Public domain
- **Edit:** 0s–32s, faded, −17 LUFS

### `battle-hymn.mp3`

- **Source:** "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", United States Air Forces in Europe Band
- **Where:** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22The_Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic%22_US_Air_Force_Band.ogg
- **Licence:** Public domain
- **Edit:** the "Glory, glory hallelujah" chorus, 40s–72s, faded, −17 LUFS

### `yankee-doodle.mp3`

- **Source:** "Yankee Doodle", United States Air Force Heritage of America Band
- **Where:** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yankee_Doodle_-_Concert_Band_-_United_States_Air_Force_Heritage_of_America_Band.mp3
- **Licence:** Public domain
- **Edit:** 40s–70s, faded, −17 LUFS

### `marines-hymn.mp3`

- **Source:** "The Marines' Hymn", United States Marine Band
- **Where:** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marines%27_Hymn,_USMC_Band.ogg
- **Licence:** Public domain
- **Edit:** the complete 29s recording, faded, −17 LUFS

### `when-the-saints.mp3`

- **Source:** "When the Saints Go Marching In", Gateway Brass, United States Air Force Band of the West
- **Where:** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:When_the_Saints_Go_Marching_In_-_Gateway_Brass_-_United_States_Air_Force_Band_of_the_West.mp3
- **Licence:** Public domain
- **Edit:** 5s–37s, faded, −17 LUFS

## Deliberately excluded

These are the songs most people would name first, and none of them can be used:
"God Bless America" (Berlin, 1938), "This Land Is Your Land" (Guthrie, 1940),
"Born in the U.S.A.", "Sweet Caroline", and "American Pie" are all still in
copyright. "The U.S. Air Force (Wild Blue Yonder)" looks like a public-domain
service song but is not — the MacArthur composition remains under copyright.

## Sound effects

### `jet-flyby.mp3`

- **Source:** "G08-15 F-86 Jet Fast Fly By", from _GOLD TAPE: 08 09 10 11 Aircraft Jets_
- **Where:** https://archive.org/details/GOLD_TAPE_08_09_10_11_Aircraft-Jets
- **Licence:** CC0 1.0 Universal (public domain dedication)
- **Edit:** 16s–26s of the original, faded in/out, −16 LUFS