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Just before Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston fought for the heavyweight boxing crown in 1965, baritone Robert Goulet lost his preliminary bout with The Star- Spangled Banner. He made it flawlessly through the first several lines before losing his grip on the lyrics. He later blamed his Canadian upbringing for having to hum the remainder before thousands of fight fans and a closed- circuit television audience...
Though it is blared, crooned, strummed, tooted and mumbled thousands of times a year, The Star-Spangled Banner is a song almost no one gets exactly right. A few musicians, historians and public officials would like to replace it. Indiana Congressman Andrew Jacobs has reintroduced a bill that would change the national anthem to the more easily warbled America, the Beautiful...
Critics deride the Banner's lyrics, written by Francis Scott Key after the British assault on Baltimore in 1814, as difficult to memorize, warmongering, and insulting to America's staunchest ally. They also claim that the music is derived from a drinking song popularized at London's Crown and Anchor Tavern. The tune's highs and lows are, well, too high and low. Bass-baritone George London contends the Banner is "impossible to sing if you're sober." Opera singers have the best chance to cover the octave plus a fifth. But the soprano who starts a half-note...
...what other arena would have periodic charts hanging on both sides, instead of championship banners? There's no NCAA championship banner hanging above the rink here, but a model...
...opened up the banner and started screamingat the crowd to leave," said Aronofsky. Aronofskyand Gullette were later forcibly ejected from thebuilding...