What Is Your Favorite Version of the National Anthem?
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@Kehaulani said in What Is Your Favorite Version of the National Anthem?:
It would behoove Al to study the lyrics.
I will tell him next time I see him, which I hope is not anytime soon.
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@SSmith1226 said in What Is Your Favorite Version of the National Anthem?:
I will tell him next time I see him, which I hope is not anytime soon.
I agree. Not anytime soon but no man can promise tomorrow so I'd better go practice.
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My favorite version of the National Anthem is......
Oh, wait. That's one of the songs that maybe SHOULD be the national anthem, not the one that actually is the national anthem of the USA.
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@SSmith1226 said in What Is Your Favorite Version of the National Anthem?:
Best effort!!
That was great! Arturo wasn't so bad either!
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You can never go wrong with the Marine band!
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@Bob-Pixley The worst version of the National Anthem I ever heard was played by an Army band at Ft. Still Oklahoma back in early 1971. I was finishing up my time in the Army and was in a salute battery and every time some dignitary big enough to warrant a gun salute came to Ft. Still it was show time. And the Post marching band always showed up and were awful. I don't know how they could have been so cringeworthy . You'd think the members of the band who really couldn't play would just pretend to play and not just make racket...but no. My grade school band was better.
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Well, Army bandsmen and Marines are riflemen first and it may show. The AF and Navy have different programs. Also, the Army program is spread more thinly and they have different sized bands. You might have heard a Division band or even a National Guard or Reserve band.
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@Kehaulani Fort Sill, Oklahoma is the home of the artillery. All training of artillery troops goes on there....or did. It's also the home of other schools including missiles. The band was regular Army and probably all members joined to be in a band....but I don't know this. Maybe the worst ones volunteered at Fort Sill. If the worst players joined the Army for three years to be in a band, and avoid Vietnam, they must not have had to pass any kind of test worth respecting. I never was in a band in the Army. Probably it was a Division level band. I was in intelligence and security for artillery. I directed artillery for an infantry company in Vietnam and went on later to clear grids for fire in Vietnam for the 3-506 battalion, 101st Airborne.
I'm sure there have been many fine musicians in the Army over the years. If you were in an Army band I don't mean to belittle you or anyone else ....only saying what I remember about one particular band on one Post a lot of years ago.
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No offense here . . . I was in the A.F., LOL.
I also guess this post is a big aside, but . . .
The Army had some excellent bands, usually at higher headquarters. When I was in D.C. there were three bands at Ft. Meade which illustrate this. There was The U.S. Armed Forces Bicentennial Band and Chorus, top of the ladder, and also The U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers Chorus, both officially designated D.C. Premier Service Bands. Then there was a division band, also. Three bands.
The Bi-Band and the Field Band were cream-of-the-crop premier bands. The division band was light years away from the other two bands. The Army's band program was so big that it consolidated the best players in some bands but diluted them in others, while the A.F. and Navy had smaller programs and therefore could concentrate a greater percentage of good players in their bands. The Marines, Marine Riflemen first and foremost, were a different animal, altogether.
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@Bob-Pixley said in What Is Your Favorite Version of the National Anthem?:
Pure class...
Arturo Sandoval and God Bless America
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@Kehaulani said in What Is Your Favorite Version of the National Anthem?:
No offense here . . . I was in the A.F., LOL.
I also guess this post is a big aside, but . . . The Marines, Marine Riflemen first and foremost, were a different animal, altogether.
Except for the "President's Own" Marine band of course. They are a professional band and receive a bare minimum of military training in conduct, military etiquette, uniform regulations, etc.
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@SSmith1226
That reminded me of my daughter when she was little. When we lived up north, all the V.F.W, Veteran's hospitals and related places knew if they needed someone to play Taps or the SSB, I would transport my daughter to the venue.
Funny story;
One of the first times she played Taps (age, around 6 or 7) at a grave site, someone paid her. On the way back home I said to her, "Now let me get this right. I cleaned your trumpet, I packed your trumpet, I transported you to and from the venue, and, I taught you the song. I think I should have a cut of the pay."
I said this to her in the car on the way back home looking at her in my rear view mirror. My daughter looked back at me in my rear view mirror and said (from her child's safety seat in the back of the car), "I love you Dad".
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@Bob-Pixley said in What Is Your Favorite Version of the National Anthem?:
Except for the "President's Own" Marine band of course. They are a professional band and receive a bare minimum of military training in conduct, military etiquette, uniform regulations, etc.
Yep. They don't even go through basic training. I'm told that's one reason their official name is The U.S. Marine Band and not the Marine Corps Band.
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The trumpet version on Sunday Night Football this last week was great.
