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Every year there is a debate over who sang the best rendition of the National Anthem. There have been plain vanilla versions, county-western versions, barbershop quartet versions and hip-hop versions. It isn't an easy song to sing, having a wide octave range, and a lot of performers fall flat on their face in front of a stadium filled with Super Bowl spectators. For a lot of music critics Whitney Houston's version-- a pre-recorded track she sang in Los Angeles and lip-synced at the game-- is heads above any other heard at Super Bowl.
I respectively disagree. At one Super Bowl there was a National Anthem sung by a collaboration of each of the service academy choirs, backed-up by a soaring bass accompaniment, that blew away any I've ever heard. After a fairly standard intro, a mass choir kicked-it into the stratosphere as a formation of two F-18s and two F-22s overflew the stadium. I've never heard anything close to that before or since.