[Dixielandjazz] Super Bowl National Anthem

[Harry Callaghan]

Good point, Ron............let's get someone drunk before they attempt to
sing it at the next sporting event.  Shame that Foster Brooks is no longer
with us, I'll bet he could do one helluva job on it..

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Ron L'Herault <lherault at bu.edu> wrote:

> On the other hand, if a bunch of drunken Englishmen could successfully sing
> it, why can't we?
>
> Ron L
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> Barbone
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> Awful? Perhaps.
>
> But then what can we expect since the melody is an Old English
> drinking song?
>
> Would we prefer a drunken choir of 50 singing it in an English pub? Or
> is it time to change our National Anthem to "America The Beautiful" or
> something that makes more musical sense.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
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