Posted on 11/24/2016 11:15:27 AM PST by barmag25
Prior to today’s Lions-Vikings Thanksgiving Day contest at Ford Field, Aretha Franklin belted out what may very well be the longest rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner. Ever!
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For now the NFL is banned on my TV.
I’m not sure which was worse.
1) Aretha Franklin’s gawd-awful rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, or
2) The teeny-bopper boy band (whose name I don’t know and don’t CARE to know) that infested the half time
Why does Emperor Roger insist on throwing a bunch of celebrities out there whenever they have a captive audience like holiday games or the Super Bowl? All it does is to annoy his main audience who just want to see the game, as well as mucking with the coaches’ rhythm since half time is about 3 times normal.
Enjoy it before they take that away too, Nazi FL.
At least she had R-E-S-P-E-C-T
I remember that episode. Lol
If I was a ref I would of thrown a flag. Delay of game. Move her piano back 5 yards.
I still remember Richard Harris singing Macarthur Park. I thought it would never end. Enjoyed him in Unforgiven much more.
Bring back, “Up With People!”
Sorry Charlie. Until Goodell and his merry band of bed-wetters give up the social engineering ghost, I won’t do it. The only team organization I respect right now is the Patriots. The Packers come in second tied with the Cowboys. These are the only teams I know of who have not tolerated the stupid Colin game.
I am still a fan of an old fashioned marching band halftime show. The NFL should let a different local high school play each home game.
Just be glad they weren’t playing a team from Canada, or else she would have had to sing two anthems.
The “Duck of Death”
I don’t know why anyone would think it a good idea to sing it like that.
All I can say about it is... Let the lady have her day. All she warts is just a little respect. R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Well, I really hate the country-fried versions.
But, in the original there are four verses, I'm actually surprised Aretha Franklin screwed it up.
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, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O 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 on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O 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 wiped out their foul footstep's 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 homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-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!
She did it with soul, that’s for sure!
Personally, I would like to hear it sung as if the singer was actually there searching for a glimpse of the flag by the dawns early light. Minor key, full of fear and anticipation, and then change to a triumphant major key at “our flag was still there!” and a heroic finish.
I am with you on this, and vey much a strict traditionalist.
It was disgusting. I don’t care if she is the so-called queen of soul . . . our country is so much bigger than the individual. To me it was a #BLM slap in the face. Colin Kaepernick would be proud!
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