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  • @1945joshuaruiz Not true, because Elvis is White 7 famous and he died the same way & he's remembered. Always search your history and know what you're talking about before you try to be racist and utterly stupid about a matter!

  • Screw Whitney Houston. Freakin drug addicted mess.

  • It coms to my favorits!

  • so hows whitney better? She died of drug overuse and is remembered as an american icon. while this people are soliders and are maybe died or are in stress disorder dont get a thank you for singing this is ludacris. Well you hae to be black and famous and die from cocaine to be remembered

  • Whitney Houston was better!

  • whitney's is still the best

  • im so glad to have soldiers that can pertect us AND SING :D I LOVE AMERICA

  • Take off the microphone from him, who knows what he could do with it. Great execution.

  • I think Whitney Houston sang it best.

  • @muse54 I think if this whole choir died from a drug overdose and alcohol abuse then they would have been better too.

  • HOW SAD it is that if 9/11 never happend then the Pats "Dynasty" never happens...it's true very very sad but true.

  • @TheSportsFan4Lyfe WHAT??????????? 9/11 AND THE SORRY ASS PATRIOTS ARE NOT CONNECTED IN ANY WAY.  PERIOD

  • Hey everybody, check out the ignorant racist comment left by dahger7. Please let this person know how u feel about such ignorance!!!

  • The best anthem was when my bitch "Whitney mutha fuckin" Houston sung that shit so beautiful!!!!! RIP

  • @dahger7 Are you talking shit about Whitney houston???

  • @dahger7 U say ignorant things like that bcuz, well, it's hereditary. That was totally stupid & I'm putting u on blast!!! Bigots like u are lower than earthworm crap!

  • Fucking trumpets are ridiculously awesome :D

  • definitely the best 

  • t*

  • the only reason this would be better than whittney's is that shot of bill clinton

    this is deff number 2 of all time

  • Why bash other singers bc they sang this song? This is how you expect it to be? This is America, everyone is different, and free to be that way. How can people say stupid shit?

  • Absolutely beautiful. I shed a tear. America!

  • @Firemanfh12351 Agreed!

  • The way it is supposed to be.

  • god dam thats alot of academys......but in my opinion i think whitney houstons performance of the national anthem is the best out of any :)

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  • i do believe whitney got paid.......i also heard she donated every cent of it to charity also...............but this is a good version too

  • With all due respect to Ms. Houston, I do not believe her version ranked ahead of this one. Too many people are allowing the emotions of the times to sway their opinions. Unlike Ms. Houston, none of the singers in this video were paid one red cent for their performance. I"m sure Whitney got a nice check indeed for her singing, and that's all well and good. But please keep that in mind for the future.

  • Whitney Houston 1 (absolutely incredible), Marving Gaye 2 (the most artistic and soulful performance ever), and everyone else, thank you for your patriotism. God bless America!

  • America!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK YEAH

  • The Best sung version probably happened in some middle school auditorium in 1941 with 187 people present....by a girl whose Father was just killed in war.....

  • @barkbarkbarkbarkable Seeing as pearl harbor happened on December 7, 1941, if any of what you said were true it probably wouldn't happen until 1942...

  • @barkbarkbarkbarkable Yes. My (almailman) point,exactly. This isn't a talent competition. One of my favorite versions is by the "Cactus Cuties." They were taught who wrote the "song," by who, and under what circumstances. Did Whitney, or does Marvin know this?

  • No, Whitney did it better.

  • GO EAGLES GO!!!!

  • sound nice but stiff.

  • Why say Whithney houston 's version was better the person who posted this knew who he was going against and knew this version wasn't better, but this was a good one don't get me wrong.

  • this is good but it seems so forced and souless

  • that gave me chills...America fucking rocks lol

  • whitney houston is still better.. COME BACK WHITNEY!!! I MEAN SERIOUSLY JUSTIN BEIBER IS STILL HERE!!! ( unfortunatly)

  • False, best anthem ever is the 91 NHL all star game at Chicago Stadium.

  • this is amazing though! but not the best ever

  • That would be Whitney houston's version....sorry

  • What the hell is Gordon Gecko doing there?

  • no offense but i don't think this is in my top 3. Just a straight forward rendition. It's nice but any state choir could replicate this. The Whitney and Marvin Gaye renditions can never be duplicated only admired in awe.

  • @rapvideo Point made! It is a "straight forward" rendition. This is our national anthem, not a soul, jazz, rap, hip-hop, or whatever genre that would be a showcase for anyone's (yes, Whitney included) theatrics or range. Ms Houston was an incredible talent, but give me a rendition sung by a middle school chorus, maybe some of who's parents served or are serving; maybe even lost a parent. They understand, or at least realise, the price paid.

  • @rapvideo it is way easier to sing a song by urself ur way. you have a group of people working together to achieve a goal here which is way more impressive.

  • Any one who comes to this site is because they expect to see Whitney Houston singing. END OF STORY.

  • @sargeanthulka I agree 100%.

  • @sargeanthulka nope. This is EXACTLY the rendition I expected to see. Any other would be playing second fiddle to this. On the video of this that has had over 7 million hits, I have well over 80 "thumbs up" for my comment on it, and that was about 7 ot 8 months ago. To this day, I don't think any other comment is even close. It begins with "YES!!! YES!!! YES!!!"

  • Whitney ND Jennifer Hudson Had The BEst ....2 Mhee

  • Whitney Houston! Best ever!

  • This is nice but it was done by a group. Whitney Houston is one person and did a much better job than anybody/any group who has sung the anthem to date!!

  • How can you say something by some drugged up singer is better than something by our TROOPS? Really come on..

  • @mattissoc00l cause she has soul,meaning, feeling,impact this is jus sung, whitney made it her on song thats why..and many other reasons i can state all day R.I.P WHITNEY WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE U she had meaning in her tone something these folks no offense have

  • @mattissoc00l speaking as a "troop" which is a word we really don't use to refer to ourselves, this is beautiful, but Whitney's version is definitely the best and has a lot of meaning due to what was going on when she sang it.

  • rly nice. would like to be American^^

  • I'm sorry but I'm in the NAVY and I say this is the best version. The people who serve your country are singing this. Whitney was good but this is the real deal here. Doesn't get any better than this.

  • This is a masterpiece!!!!!!!!! WOW!

  • whitney houston's rendition was the absolute best

  • technically great, but no magic :-/

  • que increible la falta de respeto a la hora de entonar el himno nacional increible y sin palabras

  • @Truestgamer it is to be sang with heart! But not with the vocal bull shit you dont see ppl singing the amazing grace that way, because they sing it the way its suppose to like it should be with the national anthem! Its called respect

  • @k2boarder2007 No.... YOU'VE never heard Amazing Grace sang that way. Being a singer & musician, I have heard some of the sweetest SATB arrangements & renditions of a plethora of traditional & contemporary songs. If u don't like the way Whitney Houston sang it, don't EVER listen to it again. I like this version bcuz I LOVE a cappella singing. I don't take anything away from this video. But to bash Whitney & her style is just nuts!

  • LAY OFF OF WHITNEY GUYS. IM NOT EVEN INTO HER MUSIC LIKE THAT. I KNOW SHE HAD A TON OF FLAWS AND B. BROWN DIDNT HELP MUCH EITHER. BUT THATS WHY I LOVE HER FROM MY HEART CUZ I GOT FLAWS TOO. SHES A ONCE IN A LIFETIME TALENT AT LEAST. DONT HER COMPARE HER TO A 300 HEAD ENSEMBLE.

  • Now that's the definition of epic!!!

  • WOW ARE YOU PEOPLE KIDDING? IT TOOK 100 HEADS AND IT STILL FALLS SHORT OF WHITNEY. HEY ITS AN OPINION. ALL IM SAYING IS WHITNEY DIDNT NEED THE WHOLE "HEY LOOK AT ME" PRODUCTION. SHE JUS CAME OUT IN A FRIGGIN HEAD BAND AND TRACK SUIT AND DELIVERED A PERFECT PERFORMANCE. ITS LIKE HEY " I KNOW I CAN SING MY BUT OFF DUE TO THIS GOD GIVEN TALENT BUT IM ONE OF YOU AND NO BETTER THAN ANY OF YOU . I GET A DIFFERENT VIBE FROM THIS ONE .

  • compare to this, W.H is shit.

  • This is the Way The National Anthem was meant to sound. Very wonderful performance :)

  • Funny how no one gave a shit about Whitney until she died.

  • @Cheddox Sad but true.

  • Sorry, but this was a lame, dull version of our National Anthem. Miss Whitney Elizabeth Houston sang the most flawless and perfect version EVER!!!!!

  • boring ..i move to next video .. Whitney

  • I think this is the way it should be sung. Not coked out

  • Bravo, Bravo.......Wow.

  • It sounds robotic and lacks personality in my opinion, Whitney Houston had the best rendition by far.

  • Whitney's the best.

  • @Mrjuliusastin12, she has a good voice BUT she did like everyone else does and puts their vocals in, they all need to sing it like it was written and stop with the stupid shit! This was the best I have ever heard! This is the way it needs to be sang!

  • @k2boarder2007 If everybody sang like it was written, it would be the same exact thing over & over again. People have their right to their individuality. Everyone does things the way they feel. Nobody plays a sport the same way. Everybody doesn't sing the same songs the same way. Whitney never changed any words, and her annunciation was quite clear. This IS the way it was meant to be sang, with heart!

  • Marvin Gaye says hello.

  • No, it's all Whitney.

  • 97 DISLIKES??? LET EM LEAVE THEN !!

  • CAN I LIKE TWICE??

  • chill bumps......

  • god i hate bill clinton

  • @KeesusChrist.. I know that. You actually thought I was trying to say Whitney is not an American? Unbelievable

  • Marvin Gaye sang the national anthem better than anyone. Watch that shit, chills in your spine.

  • I do like this better than Whitney's performance cause it's the people that serve our country who are performing it. The one thing people don't talk about is the musicians that were not born in America who get to perform our national anthem

  • @comeonman89 Whitney was born in New Jersey, which is in America.

  • @ all the people saying that Whitney Houston did the best, you're only saying that because she just died. I'm pretty sure Hendrix did the best version ever at the Woodstock, even if he was still alive, I would still be saying, that, because for singing it, it's easy, cuz all you have to do is know the words, but for Hendrix, he had to listen to it and figure it out, there was no tablature out there yet, but there had definitely been lyrics out though. Hendrix's version is far better.

  • @JetFireROCKS1 Funny, because Jimi Hendrix didn't sing the National Anthem, he played it. For sure it was the most creative instrumental rendition of the National Anthem, but the Anthem is properly recited by singing it. Without the lyrics, it's just an instrumental piece of music which could be anything. The lyrics are what make it our National Anthem. Many people sing it well, but in my opinion, Whitney sang it best. She sang it with power befiting a song of it's magnitude and importance,

  • @JetFireROCKS1 Since I originally heard Miss Houston's rendition of it years ago as a young child, it has been burned in to my memory. When I first heard her rendition of it, I was like wow, now that is how you sing this song. Her being dead now does not form my opinion at all nor never has. Jimi also didn't even stay on point with his version, as part way through it, you can't even tell it's the National Anthem, and then further along in the song, Jimi goes on a huge non related tangent.

  • love it but ,whitney houston did the best one ever...by far

  • @ccwsolodapro mos def agree!!!!

  • @ccwsolodapro agreed

  • @ccwsolodapro whitney houston is dead

  • @WesB no shit.....

  • @ccwsolodapro that's right.... she's just a frontier.

  • Not. Check Marvin Gaye.

  • @ccwsolodapro No no no no no, just no.

  • @ccwsolodapro There's Whitney's version and there's everyone else's. Absolutely no comparison to Whitney's version. Hers was a historic best, period.

  • @lightspeedv i couldnt have said it better myself!!!

  • how come the president never sings the anthem??

  • I say this is beautiful but definitely the BEST ANTHEM RENDITION EVER HAS BEEN SUNG BY WHITNEY HOUSTON

  • @kingromeraso yepp

  • @kingromeraso or marvin gaye's

  • @kingromeraso I think she did a beautiful job, but the best by far was Jimi Hendrix

  • It amazing, four choirs from four different military schools whos voices combined sound good, and they didn't even come close to Miss Houstons rendition. This was four choirs, and they still didn't come close to out shining just one women.

  • @redmr2na In my humble opinion, seeing these folks sing for the country they love and serve is better and touches a deeper place than any person who sings it simply for publicity or money any day. Especially if said person later becomes a crack addict, blames it on PRESSURE and STRESS, and then eventually succumbs to her addiction by dying. But I guess you're right...well...nah...no you're not.

  • @robsetser Ok, I'd like to point out a few things wrong or that I disagree with what you said. Firstly, All of these people are in the armed forces, choosing to make it their careers, a career of killing people, loving your country and serving has nothing to do with love per say. Secondly, how do you or any of us know that Whitney sang it for publicity and or money. She was already a grammy wining singer, so what did she have to prove to anybody? Thirdly, all people famous or not have demons

  • @robsetser Fame however magnifies these demons, because it gives people the means to "Feed them" for lack of a better term. Fame, greed, money, and power are the roots of evil to which the demons span for the famous, though you do not have to be famous to have these demons, but again magnification. These famous people don't know what else to do with their "means". After they buy all the clothes, cars, houses, Jewelry, they then turn to the last thing there is to indulge in which is sadly....

  • @robsetser drugs. Their means allow, and encourage them to do it. Most of the people addicted to drugs or other illegal substances, don't have the means to get all they want or need to feed the demon, the famous do. Then the demons fuck with peoples heads so that they rationalize their behavior in their own minds and or make excuses for why they can not get away from them or it. So that's my opinion. Enjoy the video, and never focus on the bad, negative things, that effect people's lives.

  • this fuckin sucks, sucks like lucifer was singing this shit

  • terrible sounds flat and boring

  • American national anthem is awful

  • @UKrulesOK1 It's sounds the best in acapella and not like some choir music or opera song like all the other countries.

  • @UKrulesOK1 Are you enjoying Pakistan's ? Abit more fitting for weak men like you!

  • @UKrulesOK1 Go sing about your frumpy queen.

  • Hahaa this is not even Top 10. Ever heard of Whitney, Cher, Beyoncé .... just cuz you're a mom of a boy or girl singing there doesn't make this the best rendition ever. #Pathetic

  • @BEEyonced You are talking about our Nation's National Anthem. It doesn't matter who sings it, but what matters is that they stood and sang the Anthem. I wonder if you would sing that song on National Television.

  • @SeirraNevada and what, nothing what you addressed is controrary to my post! This for sure is not the BEST, only their moms could possibly find that the best. Like said! OK -it doesn't matter who sing it, but one cannot claim one version who's star-far away from the BEST as the BEST. I cannot sing and that's also not the debate neither. Put that word BEST out of description and all is cool. Noone is saying anything bad, but it's irritating and disrespectful to REAL GOOD SINGERS!

  • yes this is the best ever.

  • This was very good, but this is NOT the best national anthem ever! Whitney Houston's version blew this one out the water!!! No offense. They interviewed the orchestra director later on abt that performance, and he said that Whitney Houston hit notes above the orchestra, and he'd never seen anything like that before! Whitney was just that naturally musically inclined, and gifted! U don't need 2 go 2 school 4 music 2 hear that!!!

  • pilot I know you feel a loss - but how in your right mind can you class the two performances ----- your an idiot............

  • its good..but nothing will top Whitney

  • reppin westtttpoint!

  • 88 people must be muslim

    

  • @jschmitz5555 you must be stupid

  • 1:22 "Oh My God! I want one of those"

  • Feel like they’re in the vatican

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  • Same flat boring rendition you normally hear, technically correct but no soul. Watch Whitney and see this song come too life.

  • You can see Tom Brady in this one, and also in Mariah's rendition. Maybe they should superimpose him in the '91 Superbowl and the '83 NBA all-star game, just to keep the theme going.

  • It is a great rendition of our national anthem..But in my humble opinion..Whitney Houston's version is the best ever..In a distant 2nd..The guy who currently sings the anthem @ the CHI Blackhawk games..The 'Roar On The Shore' they call him..That guy could belt it out as well..& I remember a trio of concession workers @ the BFLO Sabres vs Ottawa Senators doing a great acapella version B4 Game 7 in the 1st rnd of NHL playoffs @ HSBS Arena, in

    '97..now 1st Niagara Center in BUF..Popcorn sellers!

  • This is nice but no one pulled this off like Whitney in 1991.

  • Anytime someone opines something is the best, they are wrong.  No matter how good what they are talking about it is.

    Vide Veritas Uptum

  • This was good. but the best ever was Whitney's Version. Nobody touches that!

  • The National Anthem needs not be rushed. It needs to build up and have POWER. Because America is the best country in the world.

  • @lkorn9150 fuck that. Jersey Shore is the best country.

  • @lkorn9150 thats what you think

  • Soyuz nerushimy respublik svobodnykh...

  • I HOPE ALL THE LOW-LIVES WHO ARE BASHING WHITNEY HOUSTON DIE A SLOW MISERABLE DEATH OR BETTER YET HAVE ONE OF THEIR LOVED ONES BECOME AN ADDICT...YOU PEOPLE WERE B ORN WITH SILVER SPOONS IN YOUR MOUTH AND HAVE NO CLUE WHAT A HARD LIFE IS...NOT SAYING SHE HAD A HARD LIFE BUT DRUGS DO TAKE OVER AND IF SHE HAD TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN I BET SHE WOULD HAVE NEVER STARTED....BOBBY BROWN IS THE LOSER HERE FOR NOT STOPPING HER FROM TRYING TO BE LIKE HIM...FUCK ALL OF YOU PIECES OF MOOSE SHIT...

  • People, whether you like it or not. Whitney Houston had a phenomenal voice...she just sadly got led down the wrong path and just didn't pull out of it. What we should remember Whitney by is her amazing voice, not the other side of her life.

  • @SeasonOfHate You mean good "riddance."

  • @GBev2K Yeah, that's what I meant, but who's counting? 

    Regardless, she's a crack-whore. Good RIDDANCE.

  • @SeasonOfHate You are a weakling. She was somebody's mother. You wanna talk about good riddance.

  • i think this is the best because its sung by our real heroes and these men and women will be serving our country after graduating there respected academy.

  • Where dat bitch at,,,wheres my shit ....I'm gunna kicks her ass so bad. signed Bobby

  • @mendrmic you should appreciate every crackhead. Just because you were lucky enough to not have drugs enter your life and to be raised in a sound household where you are taught right from wrong doesn't mean you should group crackheads into a category below other people as it sounds you're doing. Every crackhead is a person, often one who never has a chance to succeed beyond their circumstance, who made poor decisions because they knew no better and ruined any semblance of a life they had.

  • Sorry for the lengthy comment nobody cares to read but perhaps my least favorite thing about American culture (and I am American before people assume I'm bashing the country) is how we look down at the homeless and the addicts as less than people or even people with whom we should not be concerned. Everybody is a person in that position perhaps because of one or two bad decisions for which they have suffered for every moment since. These people desperately need help yet we ignore their

  • existence because we'll hope they'll just go away and they make us uncomfortable. Well maybe we're all a little too god damn comfortable with out ridiculous sense of entitlement for being born into circumstance greater than 99% of the world's population. I'm so sick of every short-sighted person complaining about their minute little problems and taking everything in the world for granted. I don't know how I rambled so heavily on this topic in such a random forum, but we're no better than they

  • My appreciation for Whitney is the same for every crackhead that lives in my town...

  • Whitney's was no doubt the best ever R.I.P Whitney we love you

  • Whitney's was a million times better. period.

  • This just in... L.A. County Corners office. Los Angles CA.

    Bobby Brown was arrested today rifling through MS Houstons personal possessions. When asked for a comment, LA County District Attorney explained, He kept yelling "Ax that bitch wheres my shit."

  • Don't even tell me this bitch is dead. Thats my meal ticket !! I still wanna no wheres my shit !

    signed Bobby

  • In my book, Whitney's rendition is the best and will never be duplicated.

    That rendition made you really think about our country and how much it

    really means to be an American. It was one for a life time!

  • its not about the dead becoming a saint in our eyes, but rather that we remember some of their finest moments because we all make bad decisions. we must make sure that those do not drown out the good we might have done in the end.

  • @ph0chiz0: No one is saying Whitney Houston is a saint, and for that matter no one among us is a saint! The thing is, unlike you most of us that are decent human beings would like to remember her for the contributions she made to our arts, whether through her music or her acting. Most of us realize that people make mistakes, and what she did was hurt herself, no one else. So why hold it against her? You are not God, so do not pass judgement.

  • americans...

    ...

    i fucking adore you.

    From Italy

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  • no, nothing near the best. there's no emotion in their voices

  • not quite the "best ever", but really good

  • Every second measure you can hear a Demcorat's head explode

  • @Air2air1

    it's un American to label fellow citizen as hating their country because they have different politcal beliefs than you do. You are propagating a lie.