[Dixielandjazz] The National Anthem

[Jazzjerry@aol.com]

Charlie,

I don't wish to go into the merits or otherwise of your National anthem which 
seems to be generally accepted as rather unsingable. I was just trying to 
point out that this discussion has little to do with jazz and maybe the time 
has come to call a halt. 

To be perfectly honest I, and I'm sure many of the non-Americans on this 
list, could not care less what tune you use for a National anthem, or how it 
is performed. This is an international list.

Personnally I feel that 'America The Beautiful' or Woody Guthrie's 'This  
Land Is your Land' are both better and more 'rousing' tunes just as for us I 
feel that 'Land of Hope and Glory' is better than GSTQ.  But this is simply 
an outsiders point of view

Let's get back to jazz.

Cheers,

Jerry