Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Battle Hymn of the Republic (USAFB)
- Reason
- We have several multiple songs for which we have both a historical and a modern version at FS. This modern version presents additional content to the reader that meets all of the Wikipedia:Featured sound criteria.
- Composed by
- Julia Ward Howe (lyrics), William Steffe (music), arranged by Eric Richards
- Creator
- United States Air Force Band
- Articles in which this recording appears
- The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe, William Steffe
- Nominate and support. TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:05, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
- Comments: The arranger's name is missing, both from this nom page and the file name. What happens when someone wants to upload a "straight" version of this, played by the same band? The opening is a real problem: they stumble in without a good pulse for a couple of seconds, and the first chord is far from perfectly produced. The stick thing, when it enters, is too soft (a miking problem). Has this been taken from a continuous recording? If so, I think we need to be more discriminating about openings. We had the same "opening" issue with the Buxtehude cantata movement, ripped out of a continuous track, that was just about impossible to fix. Tony (talk) 03:31, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
- I have added the arranger name here. It was already on the file description page.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 03:57, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
- Oppose. Sounds too much like Whitney Houston or some pop star singing the national anthem and doing a bunch of wiggling around in it. I want the song sung "straight". Hard core and martial. This was the song the Yankees sang as the marched south to fight.TCO (reviews needed) 01:20, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
- Oppose Good lord no! Why is a Jazz version notable? Why not nominate a Jazz version of Beethoven's 5th (no wait someone did a Funk version in the 70s). Non-typical versions of music should be notable in some way or this limits their EV (see criteria page). Ben (Major Bloodnok) (talk) 20:48, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
Not promoted per the technical concerns raised by Tony1 and the concerns raised by TCO and Ben. —James (Talk • Contribs) • 11:24am • 01:24, 31 July 2011 (UTC)