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BangShift Daily Tune Up: The Star Spangled Banner – The Boston Crowd Takes This One Over


BangShift Daily Tune Up: The Star Spangled Banner – The Boston Crowd Takes This One Over

With today being Independence Day we thought it only right to feature the most important song in our nation’s history, the Star Spangled Banner. Our national anthem gets performed thousands of times per day in various forms around the country. Of course there are high profile example of the song being both elevated and roughed up by professionals that think they have a better idea regarding how it should sound. The best versions of the national anthem are not necessarily those performed by stars. Instead they are times when the collective consciousness seems to come to the instant understanding that the words of the tune have meaning beyond their face value. This is one of those times and those renditions.

Just a couple of days after the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. It was the first major sporting event in the city after the nightmare and as a guy who lives here, I can tell you that we all needed it. The nationally televised game began with the playing of a very emotional montage of the things which had happened just days before and the city’s response to those craven acts. It was to close with Rene Rancourt, the traditional singer at the Boston Garden reeling off the anthem in front of a packed house.

What ended up happening was Rancourt getting the first couple of bars out and then the Boston faithful took over completely. A bellowing, spirited, and emotionally charged crowd carried the tune right to completion in a moment that made all of us that live here swell with pride.

I have the good fortune of hearing the Star Spangled Banner on Sunday morning nearly every weekend of the year somewhere but I’m not sure any version I ever hear, no matter who is signing will ever top this one.

Press play below to hear one of the best renditions of the Star Spangled Banner ever –


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