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you heard marvin gaye do the national anthem for the nba all-star game?lly express these words and let them linger a little longer. so instead of "o say can you see" it was "o say can you see, two, three,." >> >> reporter: minor took the version to the florida orchestra which was tapped to accompany houston at the game. they took notice of the tempo change right away. >> everybody was a little taken aback, a little like what is this, it's so different. >> it was mary corbett's second year with the orchestra as a violinist. >> we play it before every concert, so we just have it memorized. so when we played this new arrangement, everybody was like, oh, what's this? >> houston later recorded the vocals in l.a., minutes after hearing the accompaniment for the first time. >> she listened, nodding her head, and then after hearing it one time, she said, "okay, i got it." >> just once? >> one time. >> ""the star-spangled banner"" is not an easy song to sing. >> the range of it is really tricky because it starts low, but it ends up high. ♪ o say ♪ you know? and th

marvin gaye, on and on. for many of us, it's the sound track of our youth.s a new day. let's celebrate somebody who brought so much joy and happiness into people's lives with this great music that will just never die. >> gene, what an absolutely unique sound. phil specter passed away. there weren't a lot of celebrations about the passing of him. but he created this extraordinarily unique sound. but berry gordy was right there. and it was a unique motown sound. i have asked musicians that recorded there what it was like. they said, man, it was like a garage. he had cords up above. it was just stripped down to the basics. and like that incredible motown sound where you had the rhythm section, guitars up high. and then just that extraordinary roster of talent, filling it out. what an incredible innovator. >> yeah. he really was. just a couple of the secrets to that great sound, he used a lot of tambourine to get that snap. there is a kind of snap to the motown sound that you can't find anywhere else. and then there's a man named james jameson who played base in