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Motown Legend's National Anthem Fail · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: It was a bad weekend for Martha Reeves, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Christine Martha Reeves is a Motown legend, and she went
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  Speaker 1: viral this past weekend for a very shaky, off key
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  Speaker 1: rendition of the US national anthem. Now, before we play this, yes,
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  Speaker 1: can we just you know, we're not gonna really we
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  Speaker 1: can't be mad at her all right, of course not.
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  Speaker 1: She's an icon, but we can pick her apart, right,
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  Speaker 1: But before we do so, let's talk about her better days,
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  Speaker 1: like in the sixties and seventies when she had these hits,
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  Speaker 1: Martha Reeves and the Vandelas that was a big one
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  Speaker 1: for them, and this one little sample there of Motown
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  Speaker 1: icon Martha Reeves. But on Saturday over in Springfield, Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: at the historic first women's Pro Baseball League game, she
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  Speaker 1: did the national anthem and it was a little shaky
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  Speaker 1: dog as Randy would say. Yes, Randy Jackson back in
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  Speaker 1: the American Idol days, here we go. Can we play
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  Speaker 1: the clip or should we just play the whole thing?
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  Speaker 1: It's actually pretty short, it's a minute twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's start it and see how long long we.
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  Speaker 1: Last, you know, like the Gong Show. Okay, we'll hit
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  Speaker 1: the you ormeo hit the gong or Christie can hit
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  Speaker 1: the gong and we'll stop it. All right, But here
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  Speaker 1: we go.
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  Speaker 3: Oh can you see bye bye? Was so proud? But
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  Speaker 3: why why nast sleep rocks drive sad r a little pitchy?
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  Speaker 3: Why the sweet You're so gale?
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  Speaker 2: Stream? Mean?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to hear the next forty four seconds?
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  Speaker 1: I just okay, okay, yeah, why not? Yeah we've gone
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  Speaker 1: this far?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the rock, the balls bursting in air, rule
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  Speaker 3: the night that all was still still there.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we got twenty nine seconds left? You want it?
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Let's keep going?
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  Speaker 3: Oh samees sast thame go ben word or the land
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  Speaker 3: on the tree and the hell.
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  Speaker 2: The r.
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  Speaker 3: Let's let's go on it.
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  Speaker 1: That's going it. We got to the end.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what to say exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Look you or me, we could never do that.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't be that good. Yes, that would
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  Speaker 1: be good for me. But yeah, Martha reeves getting some
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  Speaker 1: bad press on this, but I mean she did, she did,
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  Speaker 1: and we got to talk about heat wave again and
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  Speaker 1: other songs.
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  Speaker 3: So there's that.
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  Speaker 1: We brought back her old hits.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think she tried to you know, personalized styleize. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: all right, and she had a she had a singer
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  Speaker 2: with her. It sounded like, yeah, a backup singer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she had some backup singers. I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: they were. You're right, but people are comparing it to
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  Speaker 1: Fergie when she did a really bad national anthem.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's one, yes, where Fergie kind of takes off
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  Speaker 2: it did. There's some similarities there, Yes.
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  Speaker 1: To me, the worst one ever is Rosie O'donnald in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety.
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  Speaker 2: Ros O Donald No not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Rose and bar yeah yeah. And she did it
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  Speaker 1: like really bad and then she spit at the end
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  Speaker 1: and grabbed her crotch. That was nice.
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  Speaker 2: Did bad on purpose? Was that the idea?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: But it was bad, but people didn't really know her
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  Speaker 1: sense of humor. Yeah, it was very disrespectful. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: hit us up at four, four, three, six three on
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  Speaker 1: your take on Martha Reeves