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Posted on 10/11/2024 8:41:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
So, there’s a pretty good chance me and Lee Greenwood won’t be around for the big day.
Like most Americans, I’m sentimental about the song; but I can see why some didn’t want it as the anthem. It’s hard to sing!
There are many musical arrangements of the Star Spangled Banner, including one by John Phillip Sousa that is particularly difficult to.play let alone sing to. However, my favorite is a short simple arrangement by Felix Vinatieri, band master for Custers 7th Calvary. A CD of Vinatieri’s music entitled Custers Last Band includes this arrangement.
https://www.allmusic.com/performance/plantation-quick-step-for-brass-band-mq0000518524
RE: but I can see why some didn’t want it as the anthem. It’s hard to sing!
America the Beautiful would have been a good anthem and it’s easier to sing ( no need for the diva-like flourishes in the phrase : “O’er the land of the freeeeeeee!” everytime some chanteuse tries it at a Sports event.)
Yes, I agree.
I actually prefer George M. Cohan’s You’re A Grand Old Flag.
Yes.
It was a patriotic song, liked by marines.
I heard (sort of rumor) that on the first Olympics (1896), they played an anthem for the winners (as they do even now).
But Americans had no anthem to play! So somebody there suggested Star Spangled Banner.
Since then, Star Spangled Banner became US Olympics and Sports anthem, which then helped the case for its official adoption thirty five years later.
I heard it, I am not sure, if it’s true, correct me if I am wrong.
It’s a nice song; but I’d want something more....dignified, I guess; with more gravitas.
I’d have to go with ‘America the Beautiful’ if we were to change it.
I was making a slight cut on Lee’s song, Proud To Be An American and how some people who stand at attention for it, look down on those who don’t. If it’s not the National Anthem, it’s not the National Anthem.
In recent years I’ve been at functions where even older adults did not stand for the anthem, much less put their hands over their hearts. So I guess standing for this song is better than nothing.
Is it still played at NFL games?
I thought
American hymn composed in 1905 commonly known as the Black national anthem
“Lift Every Voice and Sing”
Pretty well replaced it for games. I wouldn’t stand for it as I will the ‘Star Spangled Banner’.
“band master for Custers 7th Calvary.”
Men in uniforms riding horses, or the hill where Jesus died?
“America the Beautiful should be the anthem”
You’re right. Although the current Anthem makes me tear up.
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