Sarah McLachlan sings US and Canadian National Anthems

Youtube ^ | Jan 21, 2013 | hgfdsaalk

[MarkBsnr]

This shows one of the very best renditions of both the Canadian and American National Anthems. At a hockey game. In Vancouver. No mangling allowed.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Other than the fact that they were soul less butchering Commies, the Soviet National Anthem is pretty good.

La Marseillaise ain’t to shabby either.

[Hot Tabasco]

So you have never heard a “Good” Rendition?

Would you like me to post a complementary rendition by Roseanne Barr to reinforce my argument?

[TexasTransplant]

George Jones wrote a song ... those folks that pick the singers are more culpable than the Singers ... they obviously did not Vet their product...

George Jones is only applicable to this discussion because he was snubbed... but Alan Jackson made him Immortal.

I don’t know what business you are in... if I didn’t know (Vet)(he product that I was pumping and it turned out bad... my resume would have been out the door stamped and in the Mail with a Post Mark dated prior to the incident...

Just a couple observations

TT

[Actually_in_Tokyo]

How interesting. About what year would that have been? Maybe it is on YouTube.

[I cannot think of a name]

More than 10 years ago. I’ve told that story several times and many times had people say something like, “oh yea he also sang it at such and such event.” I’ve looked around on U-Tube but I never seem to be able to find anything there.

[Actually_in_Tokyo]

OK, thanks. After reading your description, I’d love to hear it!

[Fiji Hill]

I love "The Star-Spangled Banner" and find that it is not at all hard to sing.

I hope "America the Beautiful" never becomes our national anthem. It's a good patriotic song, but is at times cornball (alabaster cities?), and unlike our current National Anthem, it is too passive. "The Star-Spangled Banner" exhorts us to "conquer we must, for our cause, it is just." It even includes a Bible reference: "no refuge can save the hireling and slave" (see Job 7:2).

[Fiji Hill]

My favorite version of the National Anthem is the one by Anna Case, which includes the first and fourth verses.

[Fiji Hill]

Here's the original version of "Unbreakable Union of Free Republics," the Soviet National Anthem

The second verse includes these lines:

"Through the storms shone the light of freedom, and the great Lenin has shown us the way. Stalin has raised us to obey the will of the masses. He has inspired us to work hard and perform heroic deeds."

The refrain concludes with:

Flag of the Soviets. Flag of the people.
Carry it from one victory to another.

[Fiji Hill]

Marechal, Nous Voilà (Marshal, We are Here) is quite stirring, even though it's the anthem of the "French State," the puppet regime set up by the Nazis in Vichy 1940. The marshal in question is Philippe Pétain, the Vichy regime's "head of state."

[familyop]

Thanks to you for posting and Sarah for her sincere and great work in singing our U.S. Anthem. That was beautiful. Well done.

[Sherman Logan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-E2H1ChJM

Best video ever filmed of a national anthem. Improved when you realize most of the actors and extras, even those playing the Germans, were refugees from the Nazis.

[Fiji Hill]

The other song in that video clip is "Die Wacht am Rhein" (the guard on the Rhine), a German patriotic song dating from the was scare of 1840, when fighting between the Ottoman Empire and its wayward province of Egypt threatened to touch off a major European war.

[Fiji Hill]

I like this version of the Marseillaise

[dfwgator]

Best SB Anthem rendition....Tom Sullivan....SB X.

[Sherman Logan]

Funny. Though it is fair to point out that Louis XVI was actually one of the most decent human beings ever to sit a throne.

Which, admittedly, is not a particularly high mark.

George III was also a pretty good egg who got the very short end of the stick.

[MarkBsnr]

Oh, in case I forget:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWDXE9Pbjic&feature=player_embedded And it has William Shatner!!!

[Moose4]

I happen to like her Afterglow Live CD/DVD set a little better than Mirrorball. Yes, she’s a loony Lilith lib, but she is an amazing talent. And the live performance she does of “Possession” from Afterglow is just...it’s stunning. Not just the vocals, but her stage presence, and how hard and tight her band rocks out behind her.

}:-)4

[dfwgator]

Whenever I watch “Toy Story 2” when she sings “When She Loved Me”, I lose it every time.