[equaviator]

I like/love the SSB but this version does next to nothing for me.

[Fiji Hill]

I like these version--the first, by the opera star Thomas Chalmers includes the first and second verse, while the second, by hit-maker Elizabeth Spencer includes the first and fourth verses.

The Star-Spangled Banner--Thomas Chalmers (with a chorus that includes Elizabeth Spencer), 1915

The Star-Spangled Banner--Elizabeth Spencer (1917)

[equaviator]

I think some songs were never meant for rock and roll but that doesn’t stop ‘em from tryin’. It’s a myth that you can take any song ever written and make it better by ‘rockifying’ it.

BTW, did Frank Zappa ever do a version of the Star Spangled Banner? I can’t even begin to imagine how that would sound.