The Star-Spangled Banner -- Our National Anthem

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The singers in the quartet heard in this video are, as seen in the picture (from left to right) the late Bob Rauch, Mark Tyler (a cousin-in-law), Steve Rauch, and Mark Rauch (both sons of Bob Rauch). This recording was made (year uncertain but definitely) prior to 2006 as a sort of audition for singing the national anthem at the start of a minor league baseball game (played by the Columbus Clippers in Columbus, Ohio). This quartet was privileged to also audition in person and then to subsequently sing the national anthem on at least 3 separate occasions before the Columbus Clippers baseball games.
As typical, only the first verse (copied below) is sung of Francis Scott Key's poem "The Star-Spangled Banner." There are, however, three other verses, and they are certainly worth reading.
"O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?"

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Awesome...thx for sharing! Craig Thompson

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Happy Independence Day🇺🇸

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@@lingor_3217 And Happy Independence Day to you & yours as well!