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Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Battle Hymn of the Republic (USAFB)

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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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]

Not promoted per the technical concerns raised by Tony1 and the concerns raised by TCO and Ben. —James (TalkContribs) • 11:24am 01:24, 31 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]