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Originally Posted by Conroy4Mayor
Drop the organ! Hearing the crowd sing along with the national anthem is heartwarming. Sorry Willie Joosen, but you wreck it.
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This. Not even the crowd singing, Willie has cranked the volume in the organ to 9 in recent years, and is also dictating the rapid tempo of which the anthem is sung...he’s not the focal point, the song and singer are. Canyon has had to adapt, but it should be the other way around. But better yet, just let the anthems go A cappella.
And for all the heat Cotton Eyed Joe gets, Willie’s constant, daily insistence during stoppages of playing, and then morphing, cornball ####e such as the chicken dance and the hokey pokey and other stuff that people would play at their wedding as gags in 1979, into into “Go Flames go” lost it’s novelty long before action Cotton Eyed Joe was first sung.