You Must Be Kidding

[billroper]

I saw Chris Isaak sing the National Anthem before the All-Star Game. I can sing it better than that. I can also get all the words right.

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[laurel-potter.livejournal.com]

Of that I have no doubt.

Call 'em up and tell 'em you want to do it.

[shannachie.livejournal.com]

Last year one of the more famous German singers got to sing the German anthem before an international soccer game and she messed up the words.
Mind you, I might not have noticed...

[qnofhrt.livejournal.com]

Was it worse than Roseanne?

[billroper]

Well, no, but that's an awfully low standard.

He missed notes and bottomed out. I could understand bottoming out if you grab the wrong starting note, but you shouldn't just miss notes in the middle of your range.

Who knows? Maybe it's just a case of AutoTune being a wonderful thing in the studio...

[madfilkentist]

I can also get all the words right.

All four verses?

[billroper]

The first and fourth verse, but not the middle two. :)

[weirdsister.livejournal.com]

In defense of Chris Issac, we saw him last month when he opened for Stevie Nicks, and he is fantastically talented. I was really impressed! So, maybe he was having a bad vocal day. Plus, the National Anthem really is a bitch to sing, and even Whitney Houston was unsure enough about it that she felt she had to lipsinc to her studio recorded version.

No wonder that tune was drinking song . . .

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

"To Anacreon in Heaven" has a range of an octave plus a fifth, which means in order to sing it well, you have to (a) have a wide enough vocal range, and (b) carefully fit your pre-chosen key(s) to your range, or (c) be incredibly lucky.

My sheetmusic, in the key of A, starts on e above middle C, bottoms out on A below middle C, tops out at 2nd e' above middle C, and ends on the a above middle C.

Which means that I need to sing it in the key of G. Maybe F or F#. Anything else will be a trainwreck at the low end or the high.



If we ever replace "The Star-Spangled Banner" in its role as national anthem, my vote is for "America the Beautiful." Easier tune, and when you parse the lyrics, the images are so much nicer.

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

Was he at least singing on-key?

[andpuff.livejournal.com]

The beloved hit the mute at about the three quarter mark.

I'm just thankful ours was an instrumental -- it's almost never sung well.