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Ok, ok, I love our National Anthem...... (Original Post)
a kennedy
Aug 2024
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Yes......and it is one of the most beautiful anthems I have ever heard. I love it.
a kennedy
Aug 2024
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Diamond_Dog
(34,640 posts)1. Watching Kate Douglass?
Me too
a kennedy
(32,090 posts)2. Yes......and it is one of the most beautiful anthems I have ever heard. I love it.
usonian
(13,836 posts)3. I have heard a stirring and beautiful rendition at a baseball stadium
in LA, where you might expect to find some great voices, and on a solo koto, sorry to say, in San Francisco.
I'd be 100% for a recording of the very best, being spoiled for those rare gems in magnificent voice.
Or more of the very best!🎤
brush
(57,517 posts)4. Whitney Houston's version from the Super Bowl during the Golf War in the '90s was the best I ever heard.
That one is hard to top. Give actual chills as her voice soars.It's worth googling.
I missed the on tomight at the game. How did it compare to Whitney Houston's.
surfered
(3,116 posts)5. Wonderful story about how it was written, but the musical range is difficult.
gopiscrap
(24,170 posts)6. if u youtube original version of the anthem it is
a bit different from what we now have and also a bit more singable