Whitney Houston - National Anthem (Star Spangled Banner) 4K Remaster

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On January 27, 1991—ten days into the Persian Gulf War—Whitney Houston took the field at Tampa Stadium and performed "The Star Spangled Banner", backed by the Florida Orchestra along with music director Jahja Ling, before 73,813 fans, 115 million viewers in the United States and a worldwide television audience of 750 million. The pregame program including Houston's performance of the national anthem was produced by Bob Best for the National Football League and televised live on American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States. Because of the Gulf War situation, this marked the first time the Super Bowl would be telecast in most countries around the world. Outside of North America and the United Kingdom, the Super Bowl was broadcast for the first time in such countries as Australia, Russia, and most other countries. Houston's performance was later used as a music video of the song.

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00:00 FBI Warning
00:15 Arista Intro
00:40 Whitney Houston Star Spangled Banner/National Anthem
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Great job with this, the remaster brought to life this gem of music that is good enough reason for the planet to have evolved us. @Whitney Houston Remastered, I Wish you would have acknowledged the person most responsible for this performance's amazing different sound, and deeper effect: arranger John Clayton. A jazz bassist who became an arranger, Whitney had just started working with him when she got the call to do the Super Bowl SSB, and she insisted on him. In 1992 black people were just becoming forward in the dominant white culture in the USA, and John, a black man, had not seen any black men before him have an arranging gig anywhere near that huge Usually the arrangement of the SSB sticks to 19th century harmony but John came from Jazz, the most American of art forms, and added dissonances gleaned from 20th century classical music and Stan Kenton arrangements. But as revolutionary as that was, his real genius move that changed everything is that the national anthem is a song in 3/4 time. John wrote this one in 4/4, and it had never been done that way before or and hasn't since (outside of anywhere I happen to be playing piano when the SSB is called for). It was a brilliant, radical and bold "Of course" sound that is the most genius of things because:P no. one. ever.notices (you didn’t until now I'd bet). This unnoticeable but radical move gave that tight-ass 17th century English back-country reel a complete makeover into an American sound, while it also gave whitney one extra beat per measure to widen her vibrato and resonate those glorious long notes or stick in that additional whistle-voice flourish on the word "free", and gave John Clayton an extra beat to stick in those startling and gorgeous substitute jazz chord changes that fit into 4/4 more naturally anyway, that together make this the most American of arrangements, and give it the fresh, and uniquely better sound this SSB has. John Clayton. Face it, ¾ is more corny, and modern American music is all in 4. Plus, WHITNEY, best singer on the planet at the time, going all in - no other SSB comes close. Holy crap. I'm a professional musician and huge music snob, and I STILL get goosebumps and tear up nearly every time, and I watch it several times per year certainly.

JimManeri
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its a tradition to come back to this vid after a bad national anthem performance. it's a soul cleansing performance

canel
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Who’s here after the Ingrid Andress performance?

Seanbruvh
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Whitney didn’t raise the bar, she took it with her to heaven. Nobody has done it better since

ON-ckeo
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I think we all know why we returned to this

kharlemon
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I still remember my dad getting up out of his chair and applauding the tv.

michaelvstheworld
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Legit don’t understand why they still ask people to sing the national anthem anymore. Just play this at every sporting event. Shit is electric.

BleedBlueNYR
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I wonder if the people in that stadium realized that they had just witnessed the best live performance of ALL TIME.

SuperRubyduby
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Came here after the Ingrid Andress anthem in July 2024 so I could cleanse my ears and my soul and remember a better time when we had real singers making music, not mediocre shower singers propped up by autotune. This is what a real singer sounds like, kids.

Korealignments
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This is the gold standard for national anthem performances

isaacnelson
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Who’s here after that disastrous performance from Ingrid Andreas in 2024? Now listening to how it’s supposed to be preformed!

thedeterminedgardener
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My father is a retired Navy Seal and he took me to that game I was 19... I'll never forget the tears that ran down his face from not only her singing The Star Spangled Banner but the pride he felt having served our country. I'm 52 now and was blessed to hear the best artist to this day sing our national anthem. ❤🇺🇸

rhondalynch
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Some singers who belt it out look like they struggle and it's difficult. She belts it out and looks as if she's having fun at a backyard cookout. Absolutely amazing.

TheHoosierCruiser
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32 years later and Whitney is still the greatest to ever sing the national anthem!

shelbynash
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2022 and still no one has done it better. Thank you Whitney. Rest well.

RickJamesFPV
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A voice that could open the gates of Heaven

MarissaCooperButPoor
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This is the gold standard of how to do the anthem.

imranetic
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I was in a tent serving in Desert Storm in Iraq. It still brings me chills. It was powerful every soldier in that tent had tears in their eyes.

brianmcdew
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The Los Angeles Times called Whitney Houston’s voice a national treasure.

AriannaAyers
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Anyone else cry a little during this video? Gets me everytime

christhompson