On Aug 29, 2004, at 8:25 AM, Crystal Premo wrote:
the Ray Charles version of "America The Beautiful." <<
Me, too! Ah, if only *everyone* could sing like Ray.
No, no, no, no, no! It's not even grammatical! I find it so embarrassing I hit the mute button every time it comes around.
And as for the song itself, I would merely point out that invoking God in a national anthem would be a gratuitous slap at 14% of the population--among whom I number myself.
I felt very estranged from the country post-9/11 when everyone was singing "God Bless America." If ever there was a time for "The Star Spangled Banner," that was it ("bombs bursting in air.."), but nobody sang it. I found the perversity of the response extraordinarily ugly, and very sad.
Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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