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Obama's song

cabla · 2009-01-20 17:06:41

Did anyone notice the John Williams was River Dance basically.

20-01-2009 5:06pm

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Did anyone notice the John Williams was River Dance basically.

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#2 20-01-2009 5:57pm

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There was definitely a strong homage to "Lord of the Dance" in there.

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#3 20-01-2009 6:05pm

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Here we go http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=iega9EutaJE&feature=related

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#4 21-01-2009 8:47am

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He only arranged the music, he didn't write it. The first piece was the traditional "Lord of the Dance"

I was confused that Aretha seemed to be singing "God Save the Queen", until I looked it up.

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#5 21-01-2009 9:00am

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Das Kitty wrote: »

He only arranged the music, he didn't write it. The first piece was the traditional "Lord of the Dance"

I was confused that Aretha seemed to be singing "God Save the Queen", until I looked it up.

LOL...I had this on in the background and was wondering to myself why the hell they were playing god save the queen?

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#6 22-01-2009 5:20am

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because singing "bombs bursting in air" from The Star Spangled Banner
would have been callus given recent wars

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