Happy Independence Day
July 4th, 2009 by Jon Taplin
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Marvin Gaye sings the National Anthem (thanks Andrew Sullivan)
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Marvin Gaye sings the National Anthem (thanks Andrew Sullivan)
And in Iran, it doesn’t seem quite like the fat lady has had her closer. The Association of Researchers and Teachers of Qum have called the election a fraud, which puts Ayatollah at odds with a significant portion of the religious establishment. It may come to naught but it’s going to take something like calling the 20 known dead Martyrs to get things around to a general strike, and that will be a stuggle.
Some level of independence may come for them too. One hopes.
I’d like to thank the dj for a wonderful selection. Marvin sure looks and sounds like US. Perfectly imperfect, fiercely independent even to a fault, but damned beautiful too. Makes me wanna jump on that wagon and ride. Redemption. A fresh start. Another chance. Blessings…
@Ken: I don’t doubt you but do you have a citation for that?
The way to keep them going is to have some light in there. URLs are the torch of choice.
Patience good sir, they, in Iran, (as the land is now referred), are much our senior.
Len,
NYT’s July 5th front page (among others). The URL is too long for a comment box, so cut and paste into one string to get there. (though I imagine by now you have seen coverage, but in case.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/
world/middleeast/05iran.html?
_r=1&scp=1&sq=clerics%20iran&st=cse
Can someone please filter out the audience (or at least tone it down) so that we may better enjoy the best rendition of the SSB. Ever. He makes an ugly song beautiful-pure genius. Ignore at your own peril.
Wow! Good Lawd! That’s so beautiful
Even the idea of it, the concept, is beautiful. And how beautifully done it is, too.
America’s national anthem, as much as we Yanks may love it, is an ungainly tune, as we all know, and there aren’t many vocalists who can bycicle its chord changes. (Also, it could do with a bridge…but, anyway…)
The idea of wedding that ungainly, great song to Marvin effing Gaye is so cool that it makes me want to sleep with three dogs just for warmth. So few are those renditions of that anthem which are sonorous, or which even rise above cliche. Hendrix steals my heart. My favorite version heretofore has been the jazzy duet of Branford Marsalis and Bruce Hornesby. But this one really takes the cake.
Thanks, Jon.