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I’m not that big on patriotic songs. I think the wingers do protest too much when they go on about them. I mean, maybe if I supported a president who was selling us out to Vladimir Putin, then I’d have to crank up the Lee Greenwood to try to convince people I wasn’t a traitor. But I don’t so I don’t have to.

I love this version of the Star-Spangled Banner and I try to remember to post it every year. What’s your favorite rendition?

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  13. 13.

    HRA

    No doubt at all it was Whitney Huston at the Bills game. I shared it today on Facebook.

  14. 14.

    Mnemosyne

    @Facebones:

    I once met someone who used that song for her wedding. They had to find an instrumental version, for obvious reasons.

    (Technically, I think it was at the reception, not during the actual ceremony.)

  16. 16.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    I didn’t know anybody could sing the anthem in a way that makes it worth listening to. It’s a truly awful, wretched song. I can’t believe we still have it. The Stars and Stripes Forever, that should be the anthem. Who cares whether it has any words or not? You can’t help but feel like this country is worth a shit when you hear that song.

  18. 18.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    Typical secular liberal.

    Wants to talk about independence day instead of Christmas music.

  24. 24.

    James Powell

    @Mnemosyne:

    I always sing along with “Be kind to your web-footed friends, ’cause that duck might be somebody’s mother . . . ”

    Being a Boy Scout made me who I am today.

  26. 26.

    JPL

    @Mnemosyne: Today I spent the day with friends and family at a celebration at Barrington Hall, the founder of Roswell. My friend reminded me that she spent the day where Julia Howe lived. Lydia Child is also buried in a nearby cemetery.

  27. 27.

    lamh36

    @JPL: Agree, Marvin’s may be the “coolest”, but for straight up clear vocals and perfection…and also the state of the nation at the time, it’s the one that I listen to, when I’m feeling patriotic…and the only one I can listen to outside of the 4th

  28. 28.

    lamh36

    @JPL: Oh and I’d say every rendition since has been compared to Whitney’s version ever since

  30. 30.

    (((CassandraLeo)))

    I still favour “This Land Is Your Land” for the national anthem. “The Star-Spangled Banner” is certainly awful. We’re pretty much the only country I’m aware of that has a national anthem about how awesome we are at war.

  33. 33.

    Wag

    @Mnemosyne:
    As an atheist on the internet I 100% support making the Battle Hymn of the Republic the national. Greatest patriotic song ever.

    Edit: Any song that inspired Union soldiers to kick Confederate asses is ok by me

  38. 38.

    germy

    The FAKE & FRAUDULENT NEWS MEDIA is working hard to convince Republicans and others I should not use social media – but remember, I won….— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2017

  39. 39.

    Schlemazel

    If we can’t have America the Beautiful I would vote for the Jimi Hendrix version from Woodstock as the official version.

  40. 40.

    cmorenc

    “America the Beautiful” would make a FAR better national anthem than the awkward “Star Spangled Banner”. Ray Charles sang a magnificent “America the Beautiful” as the prelude to the second Sugar Ray Leonard v Roberto Duran fight, and you can clearly see that Ray’s rendition moved Sugar Ray Leonard from “fight face” to a huge grin, and Leonard hugged Ray Charles immediately after the final note. Trivia: this turned out to be Duran’s infamous “no mas” fight, but that takes nothing away from Ray Charles’ moving rendition.

    Here’s the link to Charles’ performance on Youtube:
    youtube.com/watch?v=e9tdHQkfxXY

  42. 42.

    Brachiator

    @(((CassandraLeo))): I always thought that the anthem was as much about surviving against huge odds, even more than it is about a victory.

    Scanning the Internets, I read that the song became the national anthem in 1931, during the Depression, when things were tough.

    I think all renditions of the song are pretty crappy. I kinda like “This Land is your land” as an alternative. Maybe even “We will rock you.”

  44. 44.

    Schlemazel

    @Brachiator:
    Believe it or not, Ripley began campaigning for the damn song during WWI. He was a jingoistic piece of work so the song fit the times & the man

  50. 50.

    Patricia Kayden

    @germy: Tweets like that make it crystal clear that Trump is shocked like hell that he actually won the election. I really don’t believe that he ever intended to actually be President. It was all a huge joke that got way out of hand once the Russians decided that he was their man.

  54. 54.

    germy

    @hellslittlestangel:

    More and more I wish we’d lost the Revolutionary War. At the very least, slavery would have been abolished sooner.

    And we’d have the National Health Service

  58. 58.

    germy

    And I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered
    I don’t have a friend who feels at ease
    I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered
    or driven to its knees
    But it’s all right, it’s all right
    We’ve lived so well so long
    Still, when I think of the road
    we’re traveling on
    I wonder what went wrong
    I can’t help it, I wonder what went wrong

  61. 61.

    JPL

    One of my favorite movies was In America and Sarah Bolger’s version of Desperado was perfect. I still miss Mateo. (yes I know he was a fictional character)

    vimeo.com/29692313

  65. 65.

    JPL

    @Cheryl Rofer: lol Now you are sounding like me yesterday. What bothers me is that there are some among us, not on this site, that think that North Korean lives are not worthy.

  66. 66.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Baud: Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin would object.

    That’s good enough for me.

  68. 68.

    Hal

    So is Trump not being able to find the limo right in front of him a sign of jet lag or senility?

  69. 69.

    JPL

    At the event today that I went to there were several activities for children. One was a scavenger hunt of a picture of a bald eagel. Yup, an eagel. Not sure how many of the eagels were found.

  72. 72.

    Patricia Kayden

    The illegal fireworks are in full effect tonight here in Southern Maryland. Boom boom boom. My dogs are strangely quiet because usually they go crazy when fireworks go off.

  73. 73.

    Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)

    @EBT: *Kim Jong-Un launches missile towards West Coast, which is intercepted*
    *Trump then immediately proceeds to turn North Korea into a parking lot*
    Assuming conservative antiwar sentiment is primarily concerned with “loss of ‘Murican lives,” probably not much, though hopefully enough.

  76. 76.

    efgoldman

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    Depends on how many of us are left afterward.

    I think it depends whether we care if South Korea survives as an entity, and the US troops who are sitting ducks. Seoul will be gone, for sure.

  78. 78.

    germy

    CNN responds to Trump’s Twitter attack: ‘Almost as painful as having to call him president’

  79. 79.

    Mnemosyne

    The annual viewing of 1776 has begun. This year, I’m watching for connections to Hamilton, of course. There’s definitely a costuming connection, especially when it comes to the colors used.

  80. 80.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @germy: Hah! Please grow a backbone CNN. Do something concretely defiant against that loser and/or his minions.

  81. 81.

    efgoldman

    @germy:

    CNN responds to Trump’s Twitter attack

    I’m sure Orange Julius never heard Mark Twain’s old maxim: Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
    Maybe updated to “Never pick a fight with people who issue pixels by the billions”

  82. 82.

    Bruuuuce

    @(((CassandraLeo))): I also prefer “This Land Is Your Land”, provided that it’s mandatory to sing the penultimate and antepenultimate verses:

    As I went walking I saw a sign there
    And on the sign it said “No Trespassing.”
    But on the other side it didn’t say nothing,
    That side was made for you and me.

    In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
    By the relief office I seen my people;
    As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
    Is this land made for you and me?

    Because they make the actual meaning of the song clear, and not just some paean to an imaginary perfect place. Woody was no sugarcoated sop writer, and people tend to forget that.

  83. 83.

    Another Scott

    @efgoldman: Maybe not. Kyle Mizokami at National Interest:

    The world got a rare look at the preparedness of North Korean artillery units in November 2010, when the country conducted a surprise artillery attack on the southern island of Yeonpyeongdo. In preparation for the attack a battalion of twelve 122-millimeter MRLs was believed to have been moved onto the Kangnyŏng peninsula near Yeonpyeongdo. Such rocket launchers are division-level artillery and, according to 38North, this battalion is believed to have belonged to the nearby 33rd Infantry Division.

    On November 23, the island was hit by two barrages totally 170 rounds of 122-millimeter rockets—and possibly some rounds from nearby 76.2-millimeter coastal artillery units. Republic of Korea (ROK) return fire was limited by an inoperative counter battery radar, which was repaired in time to direct a strike on North Korean rocket launcher units. Two civilians and two ROK Marines were killed in the attacks. Curiously, the rocket battalion should have been able to fire a total of about 288 rockets, but only 170 actually landed near the island. Of those 170 rockets, only 80 landed on the island itself, the rest in surrounding waters.

    […]

    Since the 1990s, right about the time the Clinton administration decided not to undertake military action against North Korea’s nuclear program, the general consensus has been that Pyongyang had enough artillery to turn nearby Seoul, home to approximately 25 million South Koreans, into a “sea of fire” that could see up to one million civilians killed. This apocalyptic scenario has been a trump card against strong military action against Pyongyang, with fears it could order a bombardment of the city as an act of retaliation.

    A 2011 study by the Nautilus Institute throws a considerable amount of cold water on this scenario. While the sheer number of artillery tubes could theoretically kill a large number of civilians, operational issues complicate matters and push the number of civilian casualties greatly downward. Despite the thousands of artillery pieces, only 700 heavier guns and rocket launchers, plus the newer 300-millimeter MRLs, have the range to strike Seoul. Only a third would normally be fired at once, and notional rates of fire would be slowed tremendously by the need to withdraw guns into their hardened artillery sites (HARTS) to shelter them from counter battery fire.

    Other factors reduce the projected loss of life in the greater Seoul metropolitan area. The city has extensive air raid shelters for civilians that will quickly reduce the exposed population density. The North will struggle to keep these heavy artillery units supplied with shells, particularly with its aging supply system. Finally, U.S. and ROK forces will quickly begin hunting down units participating in the bombardment, causing their numbers to drop almost immediately.

    Finally, the North would face a strategic dilemma. Artillery used to bomb Seoul could not be used to soften up border defenses for a general invasion, and in wartime it would be critical to capture the enemy capital quickly as possible. An all-out bombardment of the South Korean capital might very well leave Pyongyang without the ability to actually capture it, while at the same time ensuring a U.S./South Korean counteroffensive that would spell the end of the regime of Kim Jong-un. Even if a million civilians were killed in Seoul it would ensure Kim’s untimely demise, and from his perspective that is still almost certainly a very bad trade.

    Successful war is hard.

    FWIW.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  85. 85.

    JPL

    As the crow flies, I’m pretty close to the local fireworks, and the patchwork of colors through the trees is amazing. Finch is not appreciating it though.

  86. 86.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Mnemosyne: Heard a riproaring version of TS&SF by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (David Zinman cond.) in their first concert after returning from a tour of the USSR in 1986, in which they essentially reprised the progam they played at every stop in the Evil Empire.

  87. 87.

    Bruuuuce

    @Mnemosyne: In a one-to-one comparison, I prefer 1776 to Hamilton. Musically, the latter is maybe slightly better, but the fact that the writers of the former used primary sources (especially the letters between the Adamses) solidifies it for me. Besides, while I grew up wanting to play Adams, I always knew I was physically and vocally much more suited for Franklin, as I now am temperamentally, as well.

  88. 88.

    TriassicSands

    What’s your favorite rendition?

    My favorite rendition of one of the worst songs ever written? Gee, that’s a tough one. I think I’ll go with…
    …None. It’s a terrible song and a terrible national anthem. I guess that means:
    1. I hate America
    2. I’m a communist
    3. I hate the Baby Jesus
    4. I don’t think the NRA is the world’s most benevolent organization

    If I have to pretend to like, revere, or in any way approve of the Star Spangled Banner as our National Anthem, then I’m turning in my membership card to the US of A.

    I doubt there is any point in our even considering switching to something better — is there any song that could garner majority support? I doubt it. Today, iDixie might win a plurality.

  89. 89.

    Patricia Kayden

    @germy: The Reddit creator of the anti-CNN video which Trump re-tweeted has now “apologized” after CNN discovered his identity. Of course, he’s come through with the “My best friend is X, so I can’t be a bigot” defense.

    When asked specifically about his other posts that consisted of racist, Islamophobic, and anti-Semitic language and imagery, he answered, “I love people of all races, creeds and origins. One of my best friends is a homosexual and one of my best friends is Jewish and one of my best friends is Muslim.”

  90. 90.

    efgoldman

    @Another Scott:

    While the sheer number of artillery tubes could theoretically kill a large number of civilians, operational issues complicate matters and push the number of civilian casualties greatly downward.

    Would you like to be the president making the call? Would you trust the current WH fraud to deal with it at all?

    ETA: Rhyme was accidental

  91. 91.

    Patricia Kayden

    @khead: Maryland really needs to crack down on this because a couple of years back, one of our neighbors burned down his house with illegal fireworks. You’d think the rest of our neighbors would have learned their lesson from that but obviously not. They’re out in full force tonight.

  95. 95.

    germy

    @Patricia Kayden: I wish they’d leave the fireworks to the professionals. At least that’s a nice display.

    Our cat right now is very tense. Stupid drunken amateurs in the neighborhood are blowing up their explosives. Just random, ugly noise.

  97. 97.

    Another Scott

    @efgoldman: War would be a disaster. It always is. Even moreso when it’s blundered into, and when it’s started by knownothing braindamaged blowhards.

    The point of the post, though, was to say that at least a few people (who are better informed about this stuff than me) say that while NK has lots of artillery, that doesn’t mean they could “flatten” Seoul.

    That is all.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  101. 101.

    TriassicSands

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Yawn. Liking or not liking the Star Spangled Banner has nothing to do with being cheerful or not. Your comment is ridiculous. But typical.

    Why don’t we agree — I’ll ignore you, you ignore me.

  102. 102.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Another Scott:

    while NK has lots of artillery, that doesn’t mean they could “flatten” Seoul.

    That rather depends on the meaning of flatten. London* continued to exist after the Blitz. A shitload of London was flattened.

    *Feel free to substitute Manchester, Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Coventry, PloiestI, etc.

  103. 103.

    Mnemosyne

    @Bruuuuce:

    Musically, the latter is maybe slightly better, but the fact that the writers of the former used primary sources (especially the letters between the Adamses) solidifies it for me.

    Hamilton is quite surprisingly historically accurate, though they did fiddle with the sequence events right at the end to have Phillip die prior to the election of 1800 (his fatal duel was part of the aftermath). Several of the lines actually are taken directly from letters between the various characters, including “if you really loved me, you would share him” (yes, Angelica actually wrote a version of that to Eliza!) and the whole “comma after dearest” bit.

    But, yes, 1776 does make much more of an effort to be a period piece, while Hamilton tries to update the language for modern audiences. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. I like ’em both.

    Besides, while I grew up wanting to play Adams, I always knew I was physically and vocally much more suited for Franklin, as I now am temperamentally, as well.

    It’s pretty obvious watching the movie that Miranda’s characterization of Hamilton is very influenced by William Daniels’ John Adams. Not only are they both obnoxious and disliked and convinced they know better than everyone else, they have the same hairstyle, fer goshsakes!

    Franklin is by far the best part in the play, though — he has all of the best lines. I have a couple of friends who are involved in a local theater company and I keep saying they need to do a production of 1776 just so one of them can play Franklin. The poor guy even has gout, too!

  104. 104.

    WestTexan70

    Hendrix and Gaye run rings around the overrated Houston.

    Come to think of it almost everything Houston (except mid90s era Hakeem) is overrated.?

  107. 107.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @TriassicSands: Oh, ffs. You read like a person who looked at people playing a harmless game and said “You shouldn’t be playing a game. There are people starving in Country X.” I am frivolous at times. I beg your pardon.

  108. 108.

    J R in WV

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    Awww! We have something in common, I played a Sousaphone in marching band. Responsible for my remaining strength in my old age!! And good wind when I blow in that gadget at the annual physical. I usually blow about 35 years old, which is pretty good for 66+ !

  109. 109.

    Bruuuuce

    @Mnemosyne:

    Franklin is by far the best part in the play, though — he has all of the best lines.

    Yep. It’d be worth it to play him for just the first, and in many ways the least, of those, “Haven’t you ever seen a great man before?”

  110. 110.

    Another Scott

    @Omnes Omnibus: See above.

    Also too, if one wants to cite a less sanguine author, there’s Han Ho Suk (from 2000):

    North Korea has 2 artillery corps and 30 artillery brigades equipped with 120mm self-propelled guns, 152mm self-propelled mortars, 170mm guns with a range of 50 km, 240 mm multiple rocket launchers with a range of 45 km, and other heavy guns. North Korea has about 18,000 heavy guns. North Korea’s 170mm Goksan gun and 240mm multiple-tube rocket launchers are the most powerful guns of the world. These guns can lob shells as far south as Suwon miles beyond Seoul. The big guns are hidden in caves. Many of them are mounted on rails and can fire in all directions. They can rain 500,000 conventional and biochemical shells per hour on US troops near the DMZ. The US army bases at Yijong-bu, Paju, Yon-chun, Munsan, Ding-gu-chun, and Pochun will be obliterated in a matter of hours.

    The US army in Korea is equipped with Paladin anti-artillery guns that can trace enemy shells back to the guns and fire shells at the enemy guns with pin-point accuracy. However, it takes for the Paladins about 10 min to locate the enemy guns, during which time the Paladins would be targeted by the enemy guns Gen. Thomas A Schwartz, a former US army commander in Korea, stated that the US army in Korea would be destroyed in less than three hours.

    (I get suspicious about comments, like those of Schwartz, without knowing the surrounding context.)

    Who’s right? With luck we’ll never find out…

    US Korean bases are being moved south of Seoul.

    FWIW.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  112. 112.

    EBT

    @Omnes Omnibus: A significant portion of Seoul is out of range of a good deal of the artillery that NK has. That which it does have is all but irreplaceable, and any sort of artillery strike that failed to totally knock out SK’s ability to respond would result in NK having minutes to fire. And personally I believe that NK does not have that sort of alpha strike capability.

  113. 113.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Another Scott: All I am saying is that I know the kind of damage the guns that I worked with could do. People who poo-poo that are like Georg C. Scott’s character in Dr Strangelove – “I’m not saying we won’t get out hair mussed.”*

    *From memory; may not be word for word.

  114. 114.

    Mnemosyne

    @Bruuuuce:

    I keep wishing that Howard da Silva had lived in the era of audiobooks. He has one of those voices that could read the phone book and make it interesting.

  116. 116.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @EBT: Maybe my personal prejudices and loyalties affect my judgment. I would ask if the average citizen of Seoul wants to bet on you rather than me. I should note that I tend toward liberal interventionism.

  117. 117.

    Bruuuuce

    @Mnemosyne: Oh, yes, indeed. I’m not an audiobooks kind of guy (I lose track, doing other things), but I’d love to just have his voice in my headphones.

    “I won’t put politics on paper; it’s a mania.”

  119. 119.

    Bruuuuce

    @Mnemosyne: That’s an easy memory error. NP.

    “The people have read Mr. Paine’s “Common Sense”. I doubt very much the Congress has.” Some things never change.

  120. 120.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Patricia Kayden:
    I read his whole statement. It is as classy and absolute a refutation of Trump and online racist garbage as it gets, including declaring that he is done with it and an explanation of how eye-opening it was that messages he sent just to get a rise out of forum-goers really hurt people. It does not equivocate or sorry-not-sorry. Most of it is an explanation of how seductive trolling is, in tones of a lesson learned and shared rather than excuse-making.

  123. 123.

    Mnemosyne

    @Bruuuuce:

    When Adams gets squicked out because they’re lurking outside Jefferson’s window waiting to see if Jefferson is done having sex with his wife yet, “Don’t worry, John, the history books will clean it up.”

  125. 125.

    Mnemosyne

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Jefferson’s wife, not Adams’ wife. In case that wasn’t clear. It’s probably ahistorical, but Martha Jefferson comes to Philadelphia during the writing of the writing of the Declaration of Independence.

    ETA: Jefferson didn’t get involved with Sally Hemmings until after Martha Jefferson’s death. To me, the whole Hemmings thing is even more gross when you know that she was almost certainly Martha Jefferson’s half-sister, so Sally was basically a replacement for his dead wife.

  126. 126.

    Bruuuuce

    @Mnemosyne: Leading to one of Adams’ best lines: (cribbed from IMDB for exactitude) “It doesn’t matter. I won’t be in the history books anyway, only you. Franklin did this and Franklin did that and Franklin did some other damn thing. Franklin smote the ground and out sprang George Washington, fully grown and on his horse. Franklin then electrified him with his miraculous lightning rod and the three of them – Franklin, Washington, and the horse – conducted the entire revolution by themselves.”

    @Omnes Omnibus: Martha. As sent for by Adams to get Jefferson past his sexual frustration and to get him to work.

  127. 127.

    Mnemosyne

    @Bruuuuce:

    Just got past Franklin’s best unspoken exchange:

    John Adams: “Wake up, Franklin, you’re going to New Brunswick!”
    Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Half asleep] “Like hell I am. What for?”
    Hopkins: “The whoring and the drinking!”
    [Franklin gets up and marches off right behind Adams]

  128. 128.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Mnemosyne: I had assumed that the “bouncy-bouncy” was with Sally Hemmings and that it was veiled a anti-slavery and historical whitewashing reference. I may have given the 1776 the benefit of the doubt. I thought the play was calling him out.

  133. 133.

    Jim Parish

    I love 1776, but I find it hard to forgive its near-slanderous treatment of James Wilson. (He’s not the only one who gets a bum treatment, but his is the most extreme case, I think.)

  134. 134.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Another Scott: They’re finally getting around to getting out of Seoul. They’ve been talking about doing that for at least 30 years.

  137. 137.

    frosty

    @Uncle Cosmo:

    FOADIAF.

    I gather from various comments your a Marylander. As a former Baltimorean I agree. We wouldn’t even have a USA now without the defense of Ft McHenry and the Battle of North Point. DC rolled over and got burned and Baltimore stopped the British. ‘Nuff said.

  138. 138.

    frosty

    @Patricia Kayden: Maryland can try to crack down, but unfortunately the fireworks shops in South PA do a booming (oops, sorry ’bout that) business. Oddly, you can only buy them with an out-of-state ID.

  139. 139.

    Beautifulplummage

    Sun just went down over the Olympic Mts. Hoping for some sparkly shows in an hour to make up for all the noise. Kitties seem mellow, which is good.

  140. 140.

    Mnemosyne

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    He says he has “resolved” to free his slaves, but of course, he never did.

    One of the books that That Play relied on that I think some Burr defenders here really liked was The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr. Basically, the guy did go a little nuts towards the end of his life because he lost literally everyone he ever loved: grandparents, parents, wife, children, even his only grandchild.

  141. 141.

    Suzan

    Marvin’s 1983 version is the best. I regret that I can’t find a version without a sportscaster speaking over the first few words but it is worth it and I LOVE that you post this every year.

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