Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
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Marvin Gaye
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Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
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Marvin Gaye
Gaye performed this iconic rendition on 2/13/1983 at the NBA All-Star Game in LA. “Gaye, a linchpin of swagger, walked to center court at The Forum in a deep blue suit – jacket buttoned – wearing dark shades”. When his backing track began playing – featuring one of the first ever uses of a drum mach...
[Intro]
Now along with the United States Marine Color Guard
To sign the national anthem
Famed recording artist Marvin Gaye
[Verse]
O say can you see
By the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed
At the twilight's last gleaming
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
Through the perilous fight, oh, Lord
Oh, the fight
O'er the ramparts we watched
Were so gallantly, yeah, streaming?
And the rockets red glare
The bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still there
O say does thy star-spangled banner yet wave
For the land of the free
And the home of the, home of the brave
Oh, Lord, woo
The Star-Spangled Banner (Live at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game) was written by John Stafford Smith.
The Star-Spangled Banner (Live at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game) was produced by Marvin Gaye.