[MD Expat in PA]

I have to give a big shout out to my fellow “Baltimoron”, and an all around good guy; Mike Rowe’s rendition of the Star Spangled Banner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xhSBniwGbM&list=RD1xhSBniwGbMf

And then there is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_liGLyYSnH0

LOL!

Yes, the inspirational poem that Francis Scot Key wrote as he was observing the defense of Fort McHenry in the Baltimore Harbor during the War of 1812, was later put to the tune of an old English drinking song…

[left that other site]

Mike Rowe did an excellent job! I enjoyed his really deep baritone.
A man’s voice. A masculine voice. A manly, virile voice.
NICE!

[Yardstick]

Wow, very nice rendition by Mike Rowe. He’s got a pro sounding vibrato and does his vowels right and all that. The kind of stuff that doesn’t just happen by accident. He’s clearly put some time into his singing.