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On November 7, 2001, Alan Jackson debuted “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)” at the CMA Awards. The next morning, radio stations were already playing it.

On January 27, 1991, ten days into the Gulf War, Whitney Houston sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Super Bowl XXV. Even the football players cried.

“Mansions of the Lord” was written for the film We Were Soldiers and sung by the West Point Cadet Glee Club. Here, the cadets sing it in the chapel at West Point.

In 2016, Wanda Dench accidentally invited a stranger, Jamal Hinton, to Thanksgiving. He came, and they have spent every Thanksgiving together since.

A video filmed in a Spanish care home shows a former dancer with severe memory loss coming to life when she hears Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.

Avery Dixon was bullied for years as a child. In 2022, he played his saxophone on America’s Got Talent, and host Terry Crews hit the Golden Buzzer.

These dogs waited and waited for the people they love to come home from service. When they finally see them, the joy is impossible to hold back.

On a Monday morning in 2009, more than 200 dancers surprised commuters at Antwerp’s Central Station with a dance to “Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound of Music.

At the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics, Celine Dion sang Edith Piaf’s “Hymne à l’amour” from the Eiffel Tower. It was her first live performance in four years.

On October 28, 2001, before Game 2 of the World Series, Ray Charles sang “America the Beautiful” for a country that was still grieving.