[Dixielandjazz] Super Bowl National Anthem

[Harry Callaghan]

Glad that Wikipedia is staying on top of things.

I did notice a slight foulup in the lyrics..........so now Christina has
joined the ranks of Robert Goulet and Rosanne Barr.




On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Stephen G Barbone <
barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:

> How many of us were so put off my the musicality of Ms. Aguilera's
> performance that we missed the fact that she mangled the words? Note that
> millions of the hoi polloi noted that fact almost immediately.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
>
> NY TIMES - FEBRUARY 6, 2011, 9:52 PM - BY ELIZABETH HARRIS
> Singing, Aguilera Trips O’er Ramparts
>
>
> The Star-Spangled Banner can be a notoriously difficult song to sing, with
> its broad range and piercing high notes. But usually, the lyrics work out
> just fine.
> At the opening of Super Bowl XLV, less than a minute into the song,
> Christina Aguilera mangled some words of the national anthem.
> Instead of “O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming,” Ms.
> Aguilera belted out, “What so proudly we watched at the twilight’s last
> reaming.” That line was a repeat of one she’d already sung a few seconds
> earlier, except with some personal embellishments, like her replacement of
> the word “gleaming” with “reaming.”
> Ms. Aguilera’s flub was heard by tens of millions of viewers. Twitter was
> immediately abuzz with talk of her mistake, and by the third quarter her
> Wikipedia page was changed to include the incident.
> “I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that
> the true spirit of its anthem still came through,” Aguilera said in a
> statement after the performance, The Associated Press reported.
>
>
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