"America the Beautiful" is just a better song on every level than "The Star-Spangled Banner" and should've replaced it as the anthem a century ago
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The definition of an "anthem" is a song everyone sings together and we don't do that because the one we picked has too big a range for anyone who doesn't have professional training to sing comfortably and not sound like crap
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Replying to @arthur_affect
An octave and a fifth, if I've got that right. Which is the sort of range you expect people to have in a choir or something else where you're scoring SATB, but not for a bunch of randoms singing in a stadium.
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One of the backhanded compliments the other Beatles gave to Ringo was that giving him lead vocals was a fun composing challenge and led to immortal hits like "Yellow Submarine" and "With a Little Help From My Friends" because they had to be "extremely singable"
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(Because Ringo had an effective vocal range of like five notes, so if the song could sound good with Ringo singing it *anyone* could sing along to it)
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(I mean you can tell "Yellow Submarine" was a song they wrote as though already picturing a bunch of drunks in a bar singing it in chorus as an anthem)
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