Your favorite version of your country's National Anthem
DB_Cooper
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This one always makes me misty. An autistic man sings the (US) National Anthem at Fenway Park on Disability Awareness Day, 2012, and starts to have trouble with the words about halfway through. Then 35,000 people spontaneously demonstrate why I love and always will love the city of my birth.
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Here is a vid of a guy butchering the Canadian anthem prior to a junior hockey league game featuring Canada's best against Russia's best (1:07 is where it starts): http://o.canada.com/sports/singer-butchers-canadian-and-russian-anthems-before-whl-super-series-game/
The reactions from some of the players as the camera is panning are hilarious, but the crowd helps dude out as soon as they sense trouble. Tr??s Canadien!
it's a shitty anthem anyway (too long and bloated, makes up some bullshit about how the nation won its independence), so this rendition is totally appropriate.
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Not favorite...but one that cracks me up and pretty well captures the early 80's imo is this bad boy:
Oh man...thanks for sharing this. It got me.
Sayin'. That's the sort of thing that helps restore your faith in humanity.
My favorite version is Aretha at the Democratic convention 1992.
Can't find it on youtube. She sang it with just a snare drum accompaniment.
Looking for it I found this not very good Aretha version, but the keyboard is cool.
They say the melody is from a British drinking song, but there is no way drunks were singing a song with such a difficult melody. Also think the song kind of sucks. It commemorates the war of 1812, in which the British spanked our butts after we tried to annex Canada. So as much as I like hearing what singers do with it, I think it should be scrapped. There are better patriotic songs.
Because if the history of music teaches us anything it's that good singers never get drunk.