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The Best Star Spangle Banner Rendition
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Gene363 Offline
#1 Posted: Sat, Jul 4 2020, 10:58 AM EST
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The best Star Spangle Banner ever:

Madison Rising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8C7i9kdEf8

Some other excellent renditions.

Marvin Gaye: https://youtu.be/p2KYZ1BritY
Traditional, Army Field Band Brass Quintet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBK-_7cDNUM

Rocking Guitar, Jimmie Hendrix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgyGJl_xm6o
(At Woodstock, listen to the cheers.)

Jose Feliciano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQkY2UFBUb4
(1968)

Whitney Houston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_lCmBvYMRs

Jon Batiste And Stay Human on piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFlwwK-gHVM

By awesome neighbors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHSaHRd4Q48
(Toronto Maple Leafs fans finish singing US anthem after technical difficulties.)

The story of the Star Spangled Banner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaxGNQE5ZLA


When your navy has such bad shooters that the enemy literally makes their anthem about how you missed their flagpole.
Burner02 Offline
#2 Posted: Sat, Jul 4 2020, 3:39 PM EST
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Applause
Whistlebritches Offline
#3 Posted: Sat, Jul 4 2020, 4:41 PM EST
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I'd have to go with Whitney for the win in the Star Spangled Banner buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut


I gotta give best of the best to Ray Charles performing "America the Beautiful" ,this was his performance right after 9/11 at the 2001 World Series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OTRRzSuWro

Another version.........Gotta love ya some Ray Charles


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xk1P1913y0
Gene363 Offline
#4 Posted: Sat, Jul 4 2020, 5:51 PM EST
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Whistlebritches wrote:
I'd have to go with Whitney for the win in the Star Spangled Banner buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut


I gotta give best of the best to Ray Charles performing "America the Beautiful" ,this was his performance right after 9/11 at the 2001 World Series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OTRRzSuWro

Another version.........Gotta love ya some Ray Charles


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xk1P1913y0


Ray Charles did sing the ultimate America the Beautiful.
Palama Online
#5 Posted: Sat, Jul 4 2020, 6:14 PM EST
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Whitney’s is tough to beat but I do enjoy the Willie K version

https://youtu.be/OsN-Bs6qujg
Gene363 Offline
#6 Posted: Sun, Jul 5 2020, 1:04 PM EST
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Palama wrote:
Whitney’s is tough to beat but I do enjoy the Willie K version

https://youtu.be/OsN-Bs6qujg



Excellent! Willie K is very talented, thank you for the introduction.
Palama Online
#7 Posted: Sun, Jul 5 2020, 1:39 PM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
Excellent! Willie K is very talented, thank you for the introduction.


Willie was such a talented artist. I’ve always contended that he coulda been so much more but maybe that just wasn’t his thing.
Gene363 Offline
#8 Posted: Sun, Jul 5 2020, 2:06 PM EST
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Palama wrote:
Willie was such a talented artist. I’ve always contended that he coulda been so much more but maybe that just wasn’t his thing.



Even opera! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWSas1tL5gE
Palama Online
#9 Posted: Sun, Jul 5 2020, 2:51 PM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
Even opera! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWSas1tL5gE



Yup. Like I said, that man was so TALENTED! Singer, songwriter, musician, the man had it all. Although I consider Robert Cazimero to have the finest voice in Hawaii, Willie had such great range that depending on genre, I would pick him to be #1.

Back in the early ‘90s, Willie and Amy G. were waiting for a flight to Maui at the same gate as me. Willie was into his Johnny Cash look so was all decked out in black. He was a fairly big guy so with his long trench coat and 10 gallon cowboy hat, he looked pretty intimidating. Smoked cigarettes like a chimney too (...back when you still could publicly smoke in places like airports...).
delta1 Offline
#10 Posted: Sun, Jul 5 2020, 4:19 PM EST
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Jackie Evancho did a good job too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSjHBSKtgls
Palama Online
#11 Posted: Mon, Jul 6 2020, 1:00 AM EST
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Fo’ sure the coolest version:

https://youtu.be/p2KYZ1BritY
Gene363 Offline
#12 Posted: Mon, Jul 6 2020, 8:55 AM EST
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Palama wrote:
Fo’ sure the coolest version:

https://youtu.be/p2KYZ1BritY




Holly Cow! That is the one I was looking for when I got the idea for this post. I had heard it before and really like that rendition.

Thank you very much.


Marvin Gaye, another great performer we no longer have. Sad
tailgater Offline
#13 Posted: Tue, Jul 7 2020, 4:36 PM EST
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Boston Bruins following the Marathon Bombing incident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KXHN-ETDig

My then-14 year old daughter went to this game despite our worries. (it was prior to catching Tsnaraev and nobody knew for sure what was going on in the city). The Bruins lost the game (to Buffalo?) but it will remain her all time favorite and I'm jealous I didn't go.
delta1 Offline
#14 Posted: Tue, Jul 7 2020, 4:54 PM EST
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Palama wrote:
Fo’ sure the coolest version:

https://youtu.be/p2KYZ1BritY




yeah...got to go with this one...
Buckwheat Offline
#15 Posted: Thu, Jul 9 2020, 10:34 AM EST
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Whistlebritches wrote:
I'd have to go with Whitney for the win in the Star Spangled Banner buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut


I gotta give best of the best to Ray Charles performing "America the Beautiful" ,this was his performance right after 9/11 at the 2001 World Series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OTRRzSuWro

Another version.........Gotta love ya some Ray Charles


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xk1P1913y0


+1 Whitney hit it out of the park. Ray Charles rendition of America the Beautiful brings tears to my eyes.

Musically, the SSB sucks! Too hard for most people to sing (i.e https://americansongwriter.com/star-spangled-banner-is-not-a-song-or-is-it/). fog
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