[Mean Daddy]

Personally, they should get rid of the Star & play Ray Charles version America the Beautiful before every event.

[broken_clock]

My favorite 👍

[happyathome]

Agree. And if not the Ray Charles version, the drop singers all together and just have a band play it so the crowd can sing along.

I’ve always thought that going to singers was a secret effort to get people to stop singing along, and eventually forget the words all together. There’s a unifying spirit that comes from singing with a crowd - anyone who’s been in the service and sang marching songs/cadances understands.

[subterfuge]

I’ pretty sure I heard America The Beautiful right before the national anthem. Very well done.

[hardspunned]

No, don’t do that! If you’re talking about his version at the World Series in 2001, I always look like a fool when the tears start.

https://youtu.be/HlHMQEegpFs?si=XFXyH4UZTSUMh4XI

[DennisR]

That rendition is absolutely beautiful.

[jagusafr]

Lauren Daigle and Trombone Shorty knocked “American the Beautiful” out of the park. And NO “Black national anthem” this time around!

[Hot Tabasco]

yep

[Mastador1]

No, Kate Smith God Bless America.