Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/United States Navy Band - O Canada

United States Navy Band - O Canada

The Canadian national anthem, O Canada, played by the United States Navy Band. The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony, 1880. The music was written by Calixa Lavallée as a setting of a French Canadian patriotic poem composed by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier. The lyrics were translated to English in 1906, Robert Stanley Weir wrote another English version in 1908, which were revised twice before taking their current form in 1980.

The recording and performance is of the high quality that is expected of and maintained by the US Navy Band. Better than the other instrumental that was nominated, I removed that in the article's infobox and used this one instead.

Nominate and support. —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 12:56pm • 01:56, 27 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support—excellent, as usual. Except that I think they start their ralls in national anthems too early. They end up grinding to a slow halt (like saying to the audience ... "hey, we're going to finish in a minute ... here it comes, wait ... yes ... wait ..."). Tony (talk) 12:48, 27 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support excellent as usual and that caption it to die for --Guerillero | My Talk 03:05, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional support It sounds good, well played and recorded, but this recording doesn't seem to be used on any article page. Once it is, then you have my full support. Major Bloodnok (talk) 12:51, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- It doesn't appear on any article because none of the article's regular watchers seem to think the piece belongs and continue to use that horrid 1916 instrumental, even though it's already in the article further down, not sure about now, I think they might have removed the duplicate just because they felt like it. I think there's a bit of bias here, they're probably Canadians (given the "Rmv American version" edit summary) so they'd most likely prefer Canadian performances. If this passes, which it looks like it will then policy (or is it procedure) states the higher quality piece is to be used somewhere on the article near the top. —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 7:48pm • 08:48, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - I tried to add it to the gallery. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 18:04, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I believe in the gallery would be fine ..Is there a date for this version - this would be an asset and would get my support for Featured sound if found. Moxy (talk) 23:22, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think mid to late 2000's is a fair approximation since the USNB doesn't date their recordings, well at least not the anthems and ceremonial music. —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 7:58pm • 08:58, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I would say 03-04. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 00:26, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, the oldest date I can get for the file itself is October 2004, though the webpage it's hosted on dates back to May 2003. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 08:31, 1 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If this stays in the article, it's fine being promoted, but it does need to be in at least one article. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 04:32, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- It's in the O Canada article in the gallery. —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 5:15pm • 06:15, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Nice performance; I like it. I always prefer the U.S. Navy Band's renditions of national anthems because the notation is clear and distinguishable as opposed to other bands and orchestras where everything is blurry and muddled. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 08:33, 1 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted United States Navy Band - O Canada.ogg --MacMed^talk _stalk 21:15, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]