Leading up to Independence Day, let's see some renditions of the national anthem.
I enjoyed this one:
June 28, 2020, 10:32 PM
TMats
I don’t know if it’s the best I’ve ever heard, but it’s sure the first version that came to mind.
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June 29, 2020, 07:34 AM
Lt CHEG
My favorite version is Whitney Houston’s Super Bowl performance of the national anthem after we entered Operation Desert Storm. It was a very patriotic time in our country and an excellent performance with a little personal flair but one that stayed very true to the original. Definitely my favorite.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
June 29, 2020, 07:45 AM
fpuhan
Although they are not in current favor today (and have, in fact, changed their name under pressure of the current climate), the Dixie Chicks nailed it in 2003 for the Super Bowl.
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June 29, 2020, 08:02 AM
henryaz
With the correct tempo, and without vocal embellishments:
"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
June 29, 2020, 11:24 AM
YooperSigs
IMHO, the service choirs do the Anthem up right. They also do a kick ass Battle Hymn of the Republic.
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June 29, 2020, 01:42 PM
YellowJacket
The aforementioned Whitney version. It's pretty much perfect. The orchestral arrangement is wonderful and her pitch is just amazing in that setting. Too bad the jets were a few seconds late.
Runner up for me would be Faith Hill for many of the same reasons.
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June 29, 2020, 03:22 PM
fiasconva
I don't know who he was but the guy who sang it years ago before the Cub's game was about my favorite.
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June 29, 2020, 07:24 PM
Blackmore
Rene Rancourt sang it for decades before Boston Bruins games. Loved it when they played a Canadian team so you got both anthems.
As for the best rendition, I was in the crowd at the old Boston Garden the night after we started the bombing in Gulf War I. Rene pulled out all the stops and the place went completely nuts
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June 30, 2020, 10:47 AM
ifithitu
I can't post videos,but Marvin Gaye was the first to change the way it done at the NBA All Star Game.
June 30, 2020, 12:19 PM
bendable
Donna Summer
does a very good job
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June 30, 2020, 01:42 PM
Johnny 3eagles
No Rap, No Hip Hop, no band, just The National Anthem by 4 guys that loved the country:
BIDEN SUCKS.
If you're goin' through hell, keep on going. Don't slow down. If you're scared don't show it. You might get out before the devil even knows you're there.
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June 30, 2020, 02:14 PM
mark60
June 30, 2020, 10:46 PM
snoris
quote:
Originally posted by fiasconva: I don't know who he was but the guy who sang it years ago before the Cub's game was about my favorite.
You're referring to Wayne Messmer. Did the Anthem at Chicago Blackhawks games until he got crossways with then-owner Bill Wirtz in the mid-1990s.
When Wayne sang The Star-Spangled Banner at Chicago Stadium accompanied by the huge Barton organ, the building literally shook.
