[Dixielandjazz] Lip Synching the Star Spangled Banner

[Harry Callaghan]

Steve;

I did not mean to suggest that Whitney might have been the only one to  have
ever lypsyched it,  It was the only one that Wikipedia chose to make mention
of.  If indeed there were others, I did not know of them..

Getting off the National Anthem discussion for the moment, have you seen the
TV commercial where Jennifer Hudson sings "I'm Feelin' Good".?

I have recordings of it by Nina SImone, Frank Sinatra Jr. and Michael Buble
but never have I heard it done as JH does it (and that's not a compliment)

I think it's a commerical for Weight Watchers
But I do have to agree with you that whoever it was that was responsible for
having Key adapt his poem to a British drinking song was obviously no Mitch
Miller or George Avakian.

Now all you people have got to stop  bothering me so I can go find my John
McCormack "Star Spangled Banner"

Tides,
HC
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Stephen G Barbone <
barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:

>
> On Feb 7, 2011, at 8:33 PM, dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com wrote:
>
> Harry Callaghan <meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> If anyone is interested, go to the following website for a complete
>> listing
>> of performances of "The Star Spangled Banner" from 1967 until the present.
>>
>> The article mentions that one of the most highly acclaimed performances
>> was
>> by Whitney Houston in 1991 (Super Bowl XXV).  However, it was reported a
>> day
>> or so later that it was pre-recorded and she was singing into a dead mike,
>> pretty much the equivalent of lypsynching.
>>
>
> Dear Harry:
>
> Actually many of the Super Bowl Star Spangled Banners were pre-recorded and
> then lip synched. You can see/hear Whitney Houston doing it at:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHmdu_I_0zI&feature=related
>
> or Jennifer Hudson doing it at;
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE-7YqwZZ4o
>
>
> Personally, I like both of them. Probably because I despise the fact that
> some idiot suggested Francis Scott Key's Poem be sung to a British Song
> called; "To Anacron in Heaven"  (See below quote".)
>
> "Key wrote this as a poem and nothing in his original notes suggest a tune
> to be played. When the handbills of the poem were printed, they bore the
> name of a tune to be sung. - 'To Anacron In Heaven", a British drinking club
> tune. In 1880 the US Military ordered this tune played at all ceremonies. In
> 1916, President Woodrow Willson ordered that it should become the National
> Anthem, but it wasn't until March 3rd, 1931 that it was officially
> designated as the National Anthem by act of Congress."
>
> To me, it is ironic that OUR National Anthem should be sung to a British
> Tune because some unknown person suggested it. For all we know, the
> suggestion was from a British sympathizer who played a joke on us Colonials.
> And even more ironic that we jazz heads who relish improvisation, blast
> folks who improvise on this drinking song.
>
> IMO the Whitney Houston version was FANTASTIC. And the Jennifer Hudson
> Version was VERY GOOD. Christine? Well, she should have pre-recorded it even
> though she has sung it before (much better) live at other outdoor events.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
>
>
>
>
>
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