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?

[madfilkentist]

I can also get all the words right.

All four verses?

[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...

[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.

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

Was he at least singing on-key?

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.

[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.