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Christina Aguilera at the 2011 Super Bowl.

Absolutely the WORST.
(Not counting Rosanne Barr, but she doesn’t count.)

[martin_fierro]

That woman from “Heart” sure butchered it at the last Super Bowl.

[Darksheare]

Didn’t Margaret Cho slaughter the anthem once?

[smokingfrog]

I think I’ve heard a Whitney Houston version that is actually very good, but it’s definitely not that one. And the outfit she’s wearing ...

[SeekAndFind]

A great A capella solo version of the anthem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoBX-Lty_BE

And a great GROUP a capella:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCmk88S2sdQ

[Psalm 73]

Best I've ever heard:
Donna Summer at Fenway Park - World Series (1997?)
I was shocked.

[Fiji Hill]

I really like Deanna Durbin's version.

[freekitty]

Whitney Houston the best. Very sad she got hooked on drugs.

[InterceptPoint]

Topping the Whitney Houston version will probably not happen in our lifetimes. It was magnificent.

[trisham]

No.

[smalltownslick]

Here’s another lovely acapella version”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gOEDU0Jkc

[Fiji Hill]

There’s a reference to Job 7:2 in the National Anthem. See if you can find it.

[SeekAndFind]

This is the COMPLETE Star Spangled Banner as written by Francis Scott Key...

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Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more! Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

[DFG]

Roseanne Barr was the worst I have ever heard.

[Fresh Wind]

This is my personal favorite version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQYIHQvhIk0

[KarlInOhio]

This is a musical note. It represents one pitch sung for a short time. Do not sing it at a dozen different pitches for a couple of seconds.

[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…

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A lively thread you might enjoy.

PING

[Yardstick]

I never get tired of this one. The Cactus Cuties:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKCVS57j284

Love the way they resolve that last chord.

[Ann Archy]

NO ONE is better than Sandy Patty!!!