News & Politics - Anthem singer struggles with words, then falls on ice

Lain · 04-24-2005, 10:32 PM

I don't know if this falls under humorous or the shocking thread.

Feel free to move this to one of those threads if it needs to be there.

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Anthem Singer Struggles, Then Falls at Hockey Game
TV Show Gives Her Another Chance to Belt Out 'The Star Spangled Banner'

(April 24) - Canadian singer Caroline Marcil had a rough night at a Canada-USA hockey game on Friday.

She was invited to sing "The Star Spangled Banner," but forgot the lyrics not once, but twice. She left to get the lyrics and when she returned to the ice, took an embarrassing tumble.

She left the ice in tears at Quebec Coliseum's exhibition hockey game.

When the audience booed, she told "Good Morning America" Weekend on Sunday, "that made me completely blank. I didn't know what I was singing."

But Marcil flew in from Montreal to appear on "Good Morning America" to redeem herself, and she sang the American national anthem flawlessly.

Marcil, whose first language is French, isn't alone in not knowing the words to the song. A 2004 Harris Interactive survey of 2,200 adults found 61 percent of Americans don't know the lyrics to "The Star Spangled Banner."

Of those who claim to know all the words, only 39 percent know what follows the line "whose broad stripes and bright stars," the survey found.

The lyric problem is often evident at sporting events.

The National Anthem Project has an education campaign to re-teach America to sing the national anthem, with major singing celebrations throughout the country

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/arti...00010000000001

I don't blame her. Of course she would have a slight problem remembering the lyrics. What foreign person wouldn't?

This is what really surprised me. (This doesn't apply to those in Europe or Australia...or whatever country, as long as it isn't U.S)

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A 2004 Harris Interactive survey of 2,200 adults found 61 percent of Americans don't know the lyrics to "The Star Spangled Banner."

Of those who claim to know all the words, only 39 percent know what follows the line "whose broad stripes and bright stars," the survey found.

So much for knowing your country...

Sheebs · 04-24-2005, 11:34 PM

Wow. I thought that most Americans knew the lyrics! I know I do!! That is sooo pathetic. 61%???!!!

- Jen - · 04-25-2005, 03:50 AM

I cant believe that in a country that prides itself on being so patriotic, so many people dont know the national anthem...

*Ledi* · 04-25-2005, 05:53 AM

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Originally Posted by - Jen -

I cant believe that in a country that prides itself on being so patriotic, so many people dont know the national anthem...

Haha I know..

What the?!

mh67511 · 04-25-2005, 11:03 AM

I'll be honest I can't remember the words to it. Here is all I can remember:

Oh say, can you see, by the dawns early light,
What so proudly we hail, as the twilights last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous night,
Though the ramparts we lost, were so gallantly gleaming.
And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof to the night, that our flag was still there.
Oh say, does that start spangled ba-a-n-er yet wave,
For the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
PLAY BALL!

that's pretty bad. I think I got most of it but it took me FOREVER to remember it all. I had to sit here and hum it to try and figure out the words. For the longest time where I was a kid I thought it went "Jose can you see..."

I do know that the person who wrote it was Francis something. Was it Francis Scott Key? I believe he wrote it during the American Revolution?

**TheAngel** · 04-25-2005, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by mh67511

I'll be honest I can't remember the words to it. Here is all I can remember:

Oh say, can you see, by the dawns early light,
What so proudly we hail, as the twilights last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous night,
Though the ramparts we lost, were so gallantly gleaming.
And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof to the night, that our flag was still there.
Oh say, does that start spangled ba-a-n-er yet wave,
For the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
PLAY BALL!

that's pretty bad. I think I got most of it but it took me FOREVER to remember it all. I had to sit here and hum it to try and figure out the words. For the longest time where I was a kid I thought it went "Jose can you see..."

I do know that the person who wrote it was Francis something. Was it Francis Scott Key? I believe he wrote it during the American Revolution?

It was written by Francis Scott Key during the war of 1812 actually.

Lain · 04-25-2005, 10:12 PM

mh67511-I like your version of the U.S Anthem (PLAY BALL!

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Cute...Jose can you see...what can Jose see? The dawn's early light

-Kelly- · 04-26-2005, 12:37 AM

I saw the news in australia

that poor girl

**Mio** · 04-26-2005, 08:06 AM

poor girl.. some may dislike her because she's canadian and screwed up the american anthem, but oh well.. like reports say not all american's even know the entire anthem.

i really wanna sing it this summer at my work.. yee haw.

roswellain_chick16 · 04-27-2005, 02:45 AM

Im so sorry if you think it is in bad taste that I say this but.... I watched all of the hour long news for the first time in ages waiting to see this poor girl humiliate herself. It must have been horrible for her but I couldnt help but

**Evie** · 04-27-2005, 07:51 PM

I feel sorry for the poor girl, did they really need to release it to the world? I saw it on every news telecast I saw [soon as I switched the channel to another & it just started again on a different show]. Surely they'd have more important news to show.

LittleMilkJug · 04-29-2005, 07:36 AM

I think she deserves a clap for trying, poor girl


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