A “tradition” that should die and be buried deeply enough that its touching hands can never re-emerge.
Rosanne did the anthem knowing she wasn’t a good singer. Whoever invited her to sing knew she wasn’t a good singer. The crowd didn’t react the way they had hoped. It’s not really the same as a professional singer bombing. Compare this one to Fergie if you want a fair comparison. Coincidentally that one was also at an allstar game but it was the NBA in that instance.
Ba ba baaaaah
Eh, that’s not so bad. The notes are about as good as you’d expect from someone who’s just not a professional singer. All he got really wrong were the words.
Enrico Pallazzo is a legend.
Bring back Jose Feliciano and his performance before a 1968 World Series game. Controversial at the time - it has become a classic.(it spent five weeks on the Billboard charts) 1968 WS Gm5: Jose Feliciano performs natonal anthem (youtube.com)
As butchered national anthem performances go, it’s hard to top Dennis Park’s rendition of “O Canada”:
And finished in less than two minutes.
That’s a lot better than most, but I don’t think that singing the anthem before a game is the right venue to be putting your own personal touch on a song. Releasing an album? Sure, do whatever you want with the songs there, because the people buying it will be the folks who like your personal touches. But at a game, where most of the people are there for the game, not for you, give the crowd the song they know and expect.
The video description indicates he’d never heard the proper song before. Could that really be true?
Sort of Auld Lang Syne meets O Christmas Tree.
You can have Brother Love do the service.
There should be plenty of babies and old ladies in attendance.
He claimed that he learned it ahead of time but was thrown off by a combination of (1) unexpectedly having to sing without a backing track, and (2) the echo from the sound system.
I can’t believe I’ve never heard that before. It was lovely.
I’ve never heard it better than Whitney Houston in 1991. It went as viral as these things could go back then. Heard it on the radio for awhile, even.
In my youth, I sobbed during a bad breakup.
What my ex told me then was — less cold than that.
For straightforward versions, it’s hard to top Linda Ronstadt’s version.
In the realm of taking liberties with the anthem, I’ve always has a soft spot for Marvin Gaye’s rendition at the NBA All Star Game.
Another favorite from that realm:
Why isn’t anyone ripping the Home Run Derby staff responsible for this fiasco a new one? Nobody noticed right before sending her out that she was drunk?
I just watched/listened (suffered is probably a better verb for it) to her rendition on Youtube. That was criminal. It’s also the only time I’ve ever heard a female voice crack.
I’ve never heard of her before this dustup. The first video of her other work posted in this thread didn’t impress me all that much, either. I thought “bubble gum music” but then thought that doesn’t apply because that genere is up-beat, IIRC.
Yeah, the HRD staff need to do better at selection.
Or, better yet, we can just drop the whole patriotic display at the beginning of sports events and get on with the actual event.
Don’t call me Shirley!
Not sure how it made it 12 hours before I could slam this non-breaking ball over the fence.
I never liked Whitney’s version. I’m not crazy about all the ornamentation. It has it’s place, but to me anyway it’s gotten to be the thing. Everyone has to use overdone ‘runs,’ and vocal gymnastics. Ugh.
In the case of her anthem, trilling up and down the scale added to the length. Having to hear it before every kid’s ball game and bowling tournament. Made it seem twice as long. And let me tell you, all that repetition let me really marvel at how way over done it was.