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What is your favorite live performance of a song ever? Here's mine.

Posted - October 12, 2018

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  • 13277
    I've heard other settings, especially voice ones, drag like this as well. But the music was written as more of a march a la John Philip Sousa's great works. IMO, the best renditions are played by symphonic and marching bands such as in colleges and the military. Listen to the one I posted above by Cornell U's Big Red pep band.
      October 13, 2018 11:12 AM MDT
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  • 44618
    As far as band performances, this is my fave. The piccolos are amazing.

      October 13, 2018 11:51 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    I've seen this one as well of the US Marine band, even though this is Stars and Stripes Forever and not the Star Spangled Banner.
      October 13, 2018 12:15 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    And I completely forgot to mention that I played flute growing up and later the piccolo, and I played the Stars and Stripes piccolo solo in a concert with my high school band way back in 1976.
      October 13, 2018 9:12 PM MDT
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  • 10026
    Hi!  :) :)  I"m coming back to you. :) :)   We still have some unfinished business ... about last night!  Big Giggles.  I've gotta run & pick up some IKA stuff.  Hugs and loves. :) :)
      October 13, 2018 2:12 PM MDT
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  • 1502
    Great answer. My niece had a cheer camp and did a halftime cheer at a local small college football game. Every time I hear our nation anthem I get goosebumps. This post was edited by Rizz at October 14, 2018 10:54 PM MDT
      October 13, 2018 2:39 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    Whitney Houston's rendition at the Olympics.  Makes the hair on my arms stand up every time and brings tears to my eyes.


      October 14, 2018 1:50 PM MDT
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  • UFO performing Rock Bottom on The Midnight Special - pure bliss.  Just checked, it was actually Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at October 14, 2018 7:47 PM MDT
      October 13, 2018 10:26 AM MDT
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  • 10026
    I just read your post to Don because he knows all about The Midnight Special!  Before I could finish reading, he said YA!!  Don Kirshner's Rock Concert.  Awesome!! :) :)  
      October 13, 2018 2:08 PM MDT
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  • It was such a GREAT show. I would come home from being out just to watch it, and then I would go back out after.  Good times!
      October 13, 2018 2:51 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    A bit off the beaten path, but my favorite choral work performed by not one but two great men's glee clubs, Morehouse College from Atlanta joining Cornell University at Sage Chapel in Ithaca, NY. Just listen to the close harmonies!
    This post was edited by Stu Spelling Bee at October 13, 2018 10:43 PM MDT
      October 13, 2018 10:38 AM MDT
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  • 44618
    Sound isn't working. Working on other songs, though.
      October 13, 2018 10:49 AM MDT
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  • 17596
    Yes.  It's quite lovely. 
      October 13, 2018 10:47 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    i dont go to thenn
      October 13, 2018 3:45 PM MDT
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  • 6098
    Distant Lover by Marvin Gaye. 
      October 14, 2018 3:53 PM MDT
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