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The 10 Best & Worst [renditions of the U.S.] National Anthems Ever, From Roseanne To Whitney
Yahoo Music Blogs ^ | 2/6/11 | chris willman

Posted on 02/06/2011 3:20:02 AM PST by DemforBush

As we head into Super Bowl XLV, where Christina Aguilera is slated to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner," let's pause to remember some of the previous celebrities who've tested their lungs with the anthem...

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KEYWORDS: bad; good; starspangledbanner
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To: DWar
There could never be another as great as Whitney Houston’s rendition.

You got that right. I will remember that one forever. It was awesome.

41 posted on 02/06/2011 9:16:34 AM PST by sargon (I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
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To: DWar

She doesn’t sing—she screams.


42 posted on 02/06/2011 9:22:19 AM PST by mom4kittys (See you in another life, brotha)
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To: sargon

Whitney’s version is the greatest vocal takew on the anthem...and I love Hendrix’s instumental version.


43 posted on 02/06/2011 9:31:51 AM PST by pallmallman (Q)
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To: TexasM1A

Don’t know who they were, but the trio who did the Anthem before the Atlanta-Packers game in the playoffs was almost better than Whitney. They were amazing.


44 posted on 02/06/2011 9:37:22 AM PST by rintense (The GOP elite & friends can pound sand.)
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To: DemforBush

Hey, It’s Enrico Pallazzo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MIr-S6mwFk


45 posted on 02/06/2011 9:42:36 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: DemforBush

I remember Tom Sullivan’s moving performance before the 1976 Super Bowl. I was a kid then, and still remember how blown away I was.


46 posted on 02/06/2011 9:47:13 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: DemforBush

I’m not sure who the performer was, but my favorite rendition was one of the ones that Ken Hamblin (The Black Avenger) used on his radio show. It’s the one where the singer started the song, and held her note at the end if the first line (Oh say can you seeeeeeeeee). I have no idea what happened to him or his show, but this version he used to open the show was simply amazing, and exactly the way I would sing it if the opportunity ever arised.


47 posted on 02/06/2011 12:28:18 PM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: DWar

Never ever. Amen!


48 posted on 02/06/2011 12:29:28 PM PST by bonfire
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To: DemforBush

I think it was in 1992 before an Oakland A’s game the late Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir with Vince Welnick did a horrible job with it.


49 posted on 02/06/2011 2:16:56 PM PST by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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To: DemforBush

You know what I would like to see? The vocalist start the Anthem from the mic, but then have the crowd take over and sing the rest of it. Then we would get the Anthem sung the way it is supposed to be sung.


50 posted on 02/07/2011 9:51:26 AM PST by StrictTime (I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused.)
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