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Since it's July 4, here's the best Star Spangled Banner ever... |
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Posts: 2220 07/04/08 02:24 PM Manager of Deathtöngue |
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RobertF50 |
He was my favorite Motown performer of all time. | #1 | ||
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Posts: 100 07/04/08 03:56 PM |
A terrible loss.
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vicious dawg |
I've been partial to this one... | #2 | ||
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Posts: 16 07/04/08 04:15 PM |
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Woof Man Jack |
Man, we're different: | #3 | ||
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Posts: 3117 07/04/08 04:48 PM |
Marvin was a helluva entertainer and all, but I can't stand it when performers make the National Anthem "theirs."� Just sing it as it was
written.
I'm no fan of Whitney's usual stuff, but she nailed it at the 1991 Super Bowl: |
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FlabLoser |
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Posts: 4609 07/04/08 04:55 PM |
Agree. Give it your signature, but don't stray from Francis Scott Key.
Whitney was great. The only other celebrity I've seen sing it worth a #*$^& was Harry Connick Jr. |
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FlabLoser |
and another thing....MSU pregame | #5 | ||
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Posts: 4610 07/04/08 04:59 PM |
With our new sound system and all, I'd like to see somebody singing the National Anthem with the Famous Maroon every game. A good singer, and there are
good singers everywhere, adds a lot.
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RobertF50 |
I was more | #6 | ||
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Posts: 103 07/04/08 05:02 PM |
just saying I love his music, but I agree it should not be changed so much. At least he didn't change the words like the recent "black national
anthem" . That was another slap in the face to none black Americans to me.
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RobertF50 |
I guess that's still better than a slap in the face and a punch in the stomach. | #7 | ||
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Posts: 104 07/04/08 05:08 PM |
Thought I'd go ahead and get that out of the way.
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Todd4State |
I bet Bonnie is still available | #8 | ||
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Posts: 1688 07/04/08 05:12 PM |
Oh, wait you said one key and good.
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Dawgpile |
Best electric version...Evar | #9 | ||
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Posts: 691 07/04/08 05:30 PM |
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KurtRambis4 |
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Posts: 2713 07/04/08 05:40 PM |
+1 for ronny's archive and no capitalization
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vicious dawg |
A little Carl Lewis for that azz... | #11 | ||
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Posts: 17 07/04/08 05:52 PM |
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Todd4State |
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Posts: 1691 07/04/08 06:29 PM |
I can't believe no one has mentioned Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock yet.
It was awesome to watch the video and see all the hippies standing there with their mouths wide open. Plus, when was the last time the Star-Spangled Banner transitioned into Purple Haze? |
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CivilEngineerDog |
Hippies? Now thats a name I haven't heard in a while | #13 | ||
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Posts: 466 07/04/08 06:48 PM |
asdf
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Maroon Eagle |
That might be the best recent classic version of the National Anthem... | #14 | ||
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Posts: 2221 07/04/08 07:19 PM Manager of Deathtöngue |
...and one that comes close is the National Anthem performed by Toni Seawright before one of MSU's games in 1991. I thought she nailed the song, and there
are times when I think that Toni's version was better than Whitney's.
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SteelDawg99 |
I looked for Hendrix's version, but couldn't find it... | #15 | ||
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Posts: 178 07/04/08 10:15 PM |
Best by Far... Maybe a close second to Rosanne Barr
On this significance of experience-- "If you have everyone back from a team that lost 10 games, experience isn't too important."
"We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking." "Statistics and records are baseball talk. They keep records like most times sliding into second base on a Tuesday." --John McKay |
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Kalpatrick |
Here's the Jimi Hendrix version | #16 | ||
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Posts: 82 07/04/08 10:35 PM |
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Posts: 1832 07/05/08 01:16 AM |
Woof Man Jack wrote:That's the 2nd most un-American thing I've ever read. Why do you hate America? The Star Spangled Banner is a pretty shitty national anthem. "America the Beautiful" is my preference.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
"...can you imagine a whole civilization that worships a god who created the very world that plagues them?" --Ajax, son of Dod (Duckman) |
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js290 |
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Posts: 1833 07/05/08 01:30 AM |
FlabLoser wrote:Talk about a "Germans" moment... Key wrote the words, not the music.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
"...can you imagine a whole civilization that worships a god who created the very world that plagues them?" --Ajax, son of Dod (Duckman) |
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SwampDawg |
I have no respect for anyone that sings it like that | #19 | ||
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Posts: 248 07/05/08 08:45 PM |
Either sing it as it was written or STFU.
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js290 |
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Posts: 1834 07/05/08 10:04 PM |
SwampDawg wrote: Okay, Dr. Karl Hass, musicologist, how exactly "was it written?"
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
"...can you imagine a whole civilization that worships a god who created the very world that plagues them?" --Ajax, son of Dod (Duckman) |
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