Chills from Boston

[kpete]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/04/boston_bruins_national_anthem.php

Last night, in their first home game since the marathon bombings, Boston Bruins fans took over the singing of the national anthem from Rene Rancourt (starts about 3:20 in):

#!

[peace13]

1. Worth the watch.

Very moving,thanks for this.

[SoCalDem]

2. That's the way that song should be sung... a group effort

It's probably the first time I have heard it at an event and have not cringed

[whathehell]

4. Really?

I like it as a group effort, too, but are you telling me you "cringed"

when Whitney Houston sang it?

[SoCalDem]

5. Yes.. I don't like the warbly singing/super-loud/yodel-y styles

[Lars39]

7. Melismatic singing.

Learned about it in the Lounge.
Not a big fan of that style either.

[whathehell]

8. "yodel-y"?

I think Whitney would take issue with at least that part of your description, bringing,

as it does, an image of Heidi in the Alps.

But to each his own -- My husband never liked her style either.

Many people loved it, though, and It was a huge hit among the troops

who were, at the time, leaving to serve in the First Gulf War.

It was so popular, in fact, it was made into a best selling single.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. This is by now hockey tradition in Canada...I've never seen it done with the US anthem before

Very moving.

[laundry_queen]

6. Oh hey

My hometown - yes that is pretty much at every game I've been to in the last few years. Of course O Canada is easier to sing for us non-singers. And we tend to regard it more as a 'party song' and we definitely don't treat our national anthem with the same reverence as Americans treat theirs. It was a little bit strange the first time I went to a major league baseball game in the US and how everybody stood at attention with their hands over their hearts - so serious - when the anthem came on. It was an interesting difference in culture.