Delivers Her Prayer For America’s 250^th Birthday

“Old Glory Always Makes Me Cry” Available Now

New York, NY (January 16, 2026) – Country songwriter and beloved Broadway actress Rhonda Coullet delivers her prayer for America’s Semiquincentennial “Old Glory Always Makes Me Cry.” The deeply moving ballad is available for streaming and purchase on Spotify, Amazon and iTunes. “Like my fellow Arkansan heroes, Johnny Cash and Levon Helm, I believe freedom is the highest ideal we’re born to serve. Governments come and go, but the natural, ancient, eternal laws of this universe never change, and a song says it best,” explains Coullet. “I hope this song will win the hearts of Americans.” Produced at Green Street Studios in Soho by the legendary Whizz, “Old Glory Always Makes Me Cry,” features an intimate performance of Coullet on piano accompanied by Mark Hardwick of “Pump Boys” fame on trumpet. Old Glory always makes me cry.Old Glory and the times gone by.It’s just an old, old story,and I don’t know why, buttears are flowing, tears are flowingwhen she passes by. Now and for all time, I guess for all eternity,our lives could stand for those who lost their destinybut Old Glory always makes me cry    (R.Coullet)

About Rhonda Coullet An ex – “Miss Arkansas” runaway, Rhonda resigned the artificiality of the beauty queen world and took Bluegrass, and Country with her to Broadway in “The Robber Bridegroom, Pump Boys and Dinettes, and Cowgirls.” When Jimmy Buffett’s version of her song, “Bigger Than The Both Of Us,” hit the Top 40 on Billboard and received a Grammy nomination ,Rhonda gave up New York for Nashville, rented an old farmhouse in Franklin to write “The American Secret” album. Always a rebellious maverick, she began her career on the Los Angeles stage of ‘Hair” playing Jeanie, protesting air pollution, became dance captain and restaged “Hair” all over the world protesting war. After three years she returned to the Big Apple to be immediately hired by John Belushi in ‘National Lampoon’ Lemmings.’ He taught her comedy and always introduced her as ‘Miss Arkansas. Rhonda sang at his funeral, and Judy, his wife, produced “West Heaven” written for him, as a tribute video on Saturday Night Live and produced Coullet’s musical “Runaway Beauty Queen” at Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse. Recently, Coullet has written and self-published five poetry books at her upstate New York farm– “Free Spirit,” “Family Tree,” “Winter Wall,” “Concussion,” and “Proprioception.”