Friday, February 6, 2009

Billboard, February 7, 2009

JENNIFER HUDSON
The Star Spangled Banner
Producer: Rickey Minor
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Whitney Houston's recording of "The Star Spangled Banner" was an enigma when it reached No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1991, after the singer performed it at that year's Super Bowl. (Fun factoid: The national anthem's lyric comes from a poem written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key, set to the tune of a popular British drinking song scribed by John Stafford Smith.) Who better to fill Houston's shoes a generation later than Jennifer Hudson. Seeing the Academy Award winner heave a deep breath as she began was the real dramatic peak of the four-hour Super Bowl spectacle. The performance is available on iTunes, with proceeds going to the Hudson-King Foundation, aiding families that have lost relatives to violent crimes. If public reaction to her return is any gauge, this is destined to become a musical keepsake, which, in turn, could propel it up the charts, an appreciable reward for a job well done. —CT

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