[Dixielandjazz] Butchering the Star Spangled Banner

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

So who recorded a swinging version of it  heh???

It's quite obvious that Francis Scott Key couldn't swing :))

Besides being a thief ,  does ASCAP know about this ?hummm:

Somebody should sue him and The US Government and God and The WORLD FOR 
BACK ROYALTIES
I think I have written proof that one of my bloody ancestors wrote that 
tune whilst playing drinking diddies on beer bottles up and down the 
bar.   Apparently not many of our forefathers swung either.

How could anybody listen to that melody and not like "What a Wonderful 
World"  ??

That song just sits there and cries out  "Murder Me murder me"   why 
doesn't somebody do it once and for all and put it and most folks out 
of their musical misery, :))    That is definitely one of those songs 
that we are often speaking of on this list that was not a good song 
when it was new and it ain't getting any better with TIME either.  Talk 
about a marketing snow job :))  or maybe there simply were not other 
songs in the competition at the time :))   Sure makes you wonder what 
#2 sounded like huh?

Now they should have just waited for RAY CHARLES to be born and record 
America the Beautiful for our national anthem, now that is a nice tune 
and Everybody loves it except maybe Osama and Saddam.   Did I mention 
it's much easier to sing and portrays a much better image of America as 
our forefathers probably envisioned it.    No doubt they saw those 
amber waves of grain being turned into Beer which is why they invented 
Budweiser huh?   You can get as drunk as a sailor and still sing that 
song, and most folks can't sing the national anthem stone cold sober, 
hummm maybe that's what's wrong too much Bud in the backstage area 
before time to sing it on national Television.

No I am not a traitor but I do know when a song sucks and that turkey 
sucks worse than any song I ever heard, and yes I have heard a few.  
:))   Don't believe me let William Hung sing it on National TV and it 
will probably sound correct and perfect for the first time in history.  
That song was written for him, he should record it and sell millions 
too,  The critics would love it.

It's Time to get over it, and get a new song already,  I nominate "How 
can I miss you if you won't Go Away?"   or perhaps that wonderful tune  
"When Amurikun eyes are smilin'"   everybody who ever darted the door 
of a pub on St. Paddy's Day knows the words to that one and can sing it 
on key too,  well at least it sounds on key if your there with 'em.


Just for laughs and guaranteed standing ovations I think I will record 
that as a Second Line March.
Anybody wanna come play on it?

Cheers, laddies

Tommy  O'Wigginstien

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:21:41 -0500
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Butchering the Star Spangled Banner

    Perhaps we should be grateful that all those who murder the Star 
Spangled
Banner don't sing its original words. It was a drinking song written 
circa
1750 in England. Francis Scott Key "borrowed" the tune after he wrote 
the
poem, and together they later became our National Anthem.

Good old FSK, One of the early copyright violators? If so why did he 
choose
such a terrible melody? Many still think that the Jimi Hendrix version 
is
far better than the original English version. :-) VBG. Many, like Pogo, 
are
also horrified that our National Anthem melody is a 300 year old British
drinking song still sung by a bunch of British drunks at meetings today.

It became "our" official National Anthem in 1931, by act of Congress 
after a
20 year span in which 40 bills were introduced before one was passed.

Original words below. Original sheet music and 5 more verses may be 
found
at:  http://www.bcpl.net/~etowner/anacreon.html


To Anacreon in Heaven, where he sat in full glee,
A few sons of Harmony sent a petition,
That He their Inspirer and Patron would be;
When this answer arrived from the Jolly Old Grecian
"Voice, Fiddle, and Flute,
"no longer be mute,
"I'll lend you my Name and inspire you to boot,
"And, besides, I'll instruct you like me to entwine
"The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


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