Best National Anthem Rendition?

Smileycat · Feb 6, 2011

In honor of Super Bowl Sunday, Yahoo says it is the Dixie Chicks' 2003 version of the "Star Spangled Banner." I agree. It made me cry.

Direct from youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU5AYcAhvyo

Everybody give it up!

:hooray:

What's your opinion?

Here's the yahoo post for the worst and best: http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/vi...tional-anthems-ever-from-roseanne-to-whitney/

Maryn · Feb 6, 2011

My favorite doesn't seem to exist on YouTube. I was in Washington DC last spring, walking through a government building's open courtyard as a shortcut to where I was meeting a relative getting off work at the Library of Congress, and a group of about 25 men in naval dress uniforms was singing it to a small happenstance audience of other people walking to parking or trains after work.

I'm not a big patriot type, but I teared up at how moving a really first-rate performance still is. (Or maybe I just really, really like a man in a uniform?)

Maryn, leaning toward the first

Smileycat · Feb 6, 2011

Maryn said:
My favorite doesn't seem to exist on YouTube. I was in Washington DC last spring, walking through a government building's open courtyard as a shortcut to where I was meeting a relative getting off work at the Library of Congress, and a group of about 25 men in naval dress uniforms was singing it to a small happenstance audience of other people walking to parking or trains after work.

I'm not a big patriot type, but I teared up at how moving a really first-rate performance still is. (Or maybe I just really, really like a man in a uniform?)

Maryn, leaning toward the first

Well, Maryn. I didn't find the Naval street singers on youtube, but I did find the Glee Club in concert here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6qEBO-wVCc. Very nice. But The Dixie Chicks made me cry.

BjornAbust · Feb 26, 2011

Hendrix at Woodstock. No contest, man

trailerbride · Mar 1, 2011

Funny. I saw this thread title and I came into boost the Chicks. I made a mix ages ago with their version blending into "Not Ready To Make Nice". Chicks rock!

PrincessofPersia · Mar 1, 2011

Smileycat said:
In honor of Super Bowl Sunday, Yahoo says it is the Dixie Chicks' 2003 version of the "Star Spangled Banner." I agree. It made me cry.

Direct from youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU5AYcAhvyo

Holy moly. I just about cried watching it there, and I'm not even American. Very nice. Definitely the best I've heard.

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