Best Super Bowl National Anthems

[bk400]

Hard to top Whitney in 1991.

But after that, my vote for the top 3 are (in no particular order):

Chris Stapleton 2023
Faith Hill 2000
Jennifer Hudson 2009

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/s...lady-gaga/amp/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WFKXJ091Ed4

[Peter_Spaeth]

I don't recall the performance, but I cannot abide Faith Hill. I am still traumatized by listening to her ruin the great Joplin song Piece of My Heart. Even my son who never has anything bad to say about anyone made a face when I asked him what he thought. Cringeworthy. Didn't Beyonce do it one year before she was a megastar?

[bk400]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I don't recall the performance, but I cannot abide Faith Hill. I am still traumatized by listening to her ruin the great Joplin song Piece of My Heart. Even my son who never has anything bad to say about anyone made a face when I asked him what he thought. Cringeworthy. Didn't Beyonce do it one year before she was a megastar?

Beyoncé did indeed perform -- 2004. That rendition is in the first link I sent. Objectively, I didn't think Beyoncé was as good as Faith Hill's.

[jingram058]

There's Whitney in 1991, then everyone else. I can't even remember the others. All the others shrink away to insignificance. And hers came after the Roseann Barr fiasco. That one is noteworthy for how God awful horrendous it was.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by jingram058

There's Whitney in 1991, then everyone else. I can't even remember the others. All the others shrink away to insignificance. And hers came after the Roseann Barr fiasco. That one is noteworthy for how God awful horrendous it was.

Roseanne Barr wasn't at the Super Bowl fortunately.

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by jayshum

Roseanne Barr wasn't at the Super Bowl fortunately.

True, but Whitney's incredible version was most definitely in response to it.

[bk400]

Originally Posted by jingram058

There's Whitney in 1991, then everyone else. I can't even remember the others. All the others shrink away to insignificance. And hers came after the Roseann Barr fiasco. That one is noteworthy for how God awful horrendous it was.

Whitney has my vote for the best voice, male or female, in recorded history. (And she's from New Jersey.). So yeah, she's tough to beat.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by bk400

Whitney has my vote for the best voice, male or female, in recorded history. (And she's from New Jersey.). So yeah, she's tough to beat.

Are you including jazz? Opera?

[bk400]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Are you including jazz? Opera?

Thought about it. Yep, I'll stick with Whitney.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by bk400

Thought about it. Yep, I'll stick with Whitney.

Great voice of course, but for me behind Leontyne Price, Jessye Norman, Sarah Vaughan. On the pop side I would say Celine and Mariah are pretty close too. If we were making this "greatest singers" and not just "greatest voice" would have a much longer list.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by bk400

Whitney has my vote for the best voice, male or female, in recorded history. (And she's from New Jersey.). So yeah, she's tough to beat.

Even if we're sticking with popular music I'd take Aretha over anyone else ever, and she'd have to be in the running for greatest regardless of genre.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Even if we're sticking with popular music I'd take Aretha over anyone else ever, and she'd have to be in the running for greatest regardless of genre.

Did she have a great voice or was she a great singer? To me those are different things.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Did she have a great voice or was she a great singer? To me those are different things.

Well Pavarotti was so entranced by her performance stepping in to cover for him at the last second at the Grammies one year (where she performed HIS song) that when she explained she was terrified of flying and couldn't appear with him in Europe, he promised to fly with her and hold her hand the entire flight, if she would agree to come.

Pretty sure he knows better than me.