Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/O Canada

O Canada[edit]

The national anthem of Canada

It's nice and it has a good article atached to it (O Canada)

Nominate and support. ~~Awsome EBE123~~(talk | Contribs) 12:33, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I fail to find the notability of this particular recording. There are many on the O Canada article. Is this perhaps the first recording of the piece? If not, I find the Edward Johnson recording much more interesting. Of course, this isn't a bad recording by any means, its just that I feel we should nominate the most representative of all the historical recordings we have of the piece. --haha169 (talk) 19:45, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps the French version instead? It's probably the best. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 20:19, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Theres some weird clicking in the beginning, and aside from the unusually loud static, I do like the French version. --haha169 (talk) 01:08, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. It is not at all a distinguished performance. Particularly troubling is that the dotted rhythm is sloppily handled by some of the musicians. And they cling to some of the detached chords awkwardly. Is the volume supposed to fade away where it does? Bizarre; couldn't have been intended.... It was performed in 1915: is there a particular reason this is of encyclopedic value (first-ever of the anthem)? Just being an early recording alone isn't enough if the performance isn't really good, I think. I certainly wouldn't parade it in an article if there were a good modern recording available free. Tony (talk) 14:59, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose There has to be a higher quality version of this by either the government of Canada or the US. --Guerillero | My Talk 22:47, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Since this is the national anthem of Canada, I can pretty much ensure that the navy has a public domain recording of it. --haha169 (talk) 01:22, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - http://www.navyband.navy.mil/Anthems/ANTHEMS/Canada.mp3 User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 04:45, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - Now commons as http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:O_Canada_%28US_Navy_Band%29.ogg User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 04:53, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Good heavens no, too much static and VERY, VERY poor quality sound otherwise. Also, why not nominate the US Navy Band version? That is a sublime performance. —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 9:06pm • 10:06, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- This is a little off-topic, but I am a bit worried by the number of brass band arrangements of National Anthems we have. For encyclopedic value, a sung performance would generally be preferred. THAT said, they are excellent brass band arrangements... Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 18:56, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - I believe we have two vocal arrangement of anthems that are featured sound (one for the US and Japan). The site where this original recording is from, there are vocal recordings of O Canada, but we will still have quality issues. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 21:37, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
comment A poor recording. Is it notable in any way though? Major Bloodnok (talk) 22:47, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted. —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 1:58pm • 02:58, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]