Ooh! You're right!
Posted on 02/07/2011 6:54:58 AM PST by jackspyder
I, too, saw/heard Linda Ronstadt sing our National Anthem at game three of the 1977 World Series, when the Los Angeles Dodgers played the New York Yankees. I don’t remember who won the game, but I’ll never forget Linda’s beautiful voice making me proud to be an American.
When Linda began singing, the noisy room went quiet; and no one spoke until she finished - all eyes on her! One man asked in a hushed voice, “WHO is SHE?”, and everyone began talking about how lovely our National Anthem was with her singing it the way it was meant to be sung - as you said, “straight up normal...no runs, no special effects, no extra long notes.”
I’ve never heard it sung better and have never forgotten her performance, nor the pride everyone hearing her felt - nor the way her beautiful voice made the hair stand up on the backs of our necks and tears come to our eyes.
Take that, Christina Aguilera! Take that and learn to make everyone who hears you weep at the simple beauty of your voice and the skill with which you sing, not grimace at the way you’ve dishonored our nation and your audience as you’ve tried to show off with inappropriate runs and trills and then fallen flat on your face because the words deserted your mind.
Take that and become a model for your peers to emulate.
It’s not the song at fault - it’s the singers.
All the teleprompters are stuck in Washington DC.
Ooh! You're right!
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