[gundog]

Link?

[gorush]

One of the best was at the Wis/SC game today...it was beautiful...the anthem, not the game.

[kevslisababy]

Yep

[re_nortex]

It was terrible. But what do you expect from an “event” that also praises the sin of sodomy?

[FLCowboy,]

I felt the same, and was wondering who to send a complaint to. Aren’t these people auditioned?

[Doogle]

wattsamatur yo don’t tink da sista’s can howl?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Who was lip synching singing? Another Disney product?

[the_Watchman]

A bunch of Tina Turner wannabe’s. Unfortunately, they were off key from the first to the last note.

[ConservativeStatement]

And then Kirk Herbstreit twice misused the word literally including something about Michigan State's defense will literally leave you on an island. Perhaps in the Hula Bowl.

[Fresh Wind]

It couldn’t be worse than Roseann Barr’s rendition, at the conclusion of which she grabbed her crotch and spat on the ground.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1-jWl0O34U

[Popman]

I have seen worse...but not by much...

[maine-iac7]

be nice to have a link :)

[Doogle]

..."that close up on the woman on the left with her nostrils flaring is going to cause me to run in the middle of the night"

[Huskrrrr]

Aunt Ester lives!

[HangnJudge]

It was nauseating

I’ve heard worse, but not often
It takes true talent and determined effort to
mutilate the Star Spangled Banner so completely.

[b4its2late]

Agreed. They sucked. I was yelling to yank them (to no avail) the whole time! LOL

[Sir Napsalot]

Switched to BTN Live after 5 sec.

5 min later, it was coin toss, didn’t miss a thing.

Did those in the stand boo’ed the performer(s)?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Didn’t even read the post. My guess is the “Rose Bowl”???

[Cyber Liberty]

From what I gathered from the comments, the performer(s) was/were black females. There is a Soul Singer unwritten rule about the Nations Anthem: It’s Public Domain, so feel free to botch it in any way you can, the more tortured the arrangement, the better. Nobody’s going to sue you.

It’s a rule.

[trisham]

That was Darlene Love

Early career Darlene Wright was born in 1941.[2] She began singing with her local church choir in Hawthorne, California. While still in high school (1959) she was invited to join a little-known girl group called The Blossoms,[3] who in 1962 began working with producer Phil Spector. With her powerful voice she was soon a highly sought-after vocalist, and managed to work with many of the legends of 1950s and 1960s rock and soul, including Sam Cooke, Dionne Warwick, The Beach Boys, Elvis Presley, Tom Jones and Sonny and Cher; Darlene and the Blossoms sang back-up vocals on the Shelley Fabares hit "Johnny Angel", Sharon Marie (Esparza) (a Brian Wilson act), as well as John Phillips' solo album John, Wolfking of L.A., recorded in 1969. They also appeared on Johnny Rivers' hits, including "Poor Side of Town" and Motown covers "Baby I Need Your Loving" and "The Tracks of My Tears". (The Blossoms recorded singles, usually with little success, on Capitol 1957-58 [pre-Darlene Love], Challenge 1961-62, OKeh 1963, Reprise 1966-67, Ode 1967, MGM 1968, Bell 1969-70, and Lion 1972.)

With The Blossoms, Love also sang backing vocals behind many of the biggest hits of the 1960s although contrary to impressions created by the release of the documentary 20 Feet From Stardom, Love did not have any lead vocal part at all in Spector's own "Da Doo Ron Ron" which was an original hit for the youthful Dolores "La La" Brooks who sang the distinctive lead vocal on "Da Doo Ron Ron" and recorded the song with her girl harmony group, The Crystals. The song was an immediate hit for The Crystals (Philles 112) and made a total of three chart successes for The Crystals in their own right for Spector together with their hits "There's No Other" and "Uptown".

Source: Wikipedia