(Pre-crack) Whitney killed this. Her performance at the 1991 Superbowl is easily the best rendition I've EVER heard of our national anthem. I still get goosebumps when I hear it.
Random history lesson:
Although the 'Star Spangled Banner' is the song most commonly associated with Independence Day celebrations, the United States didn't even have a national anthem when it succeeded from British rule in 1776.
It wasn't until dawn of September 14, 1814 during the War of 1812's Battle of Baltimore when Francis Scott Key, a lawyer from Washington who had come to Baltimore to negotiate the release of a civilian POW being held by the British, witnessed and survived a battle between the Americans and the Brits, saw the U.S. flag emerge intact and wrote a poem entitled 'The Defense of Fort McHenry'. The poem was later set to music (ironically enough, our national anthem was set to the tune of a British drinking game song) and become 'The Star Spangled Banner'.
Hooray America.
3 comments:
interesting fact i never knew.
and i was in high school when she did this.
Yeah...the American Flag and the National Anthem is all I learned about in Baltimore schools.
Kinda like Philly area schools teach kids about the Constitution and Boston area kids learn all bout the Tea Party.
Yes sir...she KILLED it!
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