'The Band Played' is certainly one of my favorite songs and I'm sure I sing it better than anybody, but you'll have to join me in the shower to find out. I heard Bogle sing it at the own Crier in PattersonNY when he was touring a few years ago, but the experience was spoiled by a slightly drunken lout who thought it was a singalong, and I had to beckon him outside to explain that I hadn't traveled that far and paid the cover charge to hear him. sadly, I recently heard Garrison Keillor tackle it on Prairie Home Companion and I had to turn it off before I resolved never o sing it again, it was so bad. I'm happy to have a couple of Bogle's LP's (remember LP's) on Larrekin Records, that I discovered at a 99 cent store in NY, a sad commentary on the alck of appreciation for this great singer/sonwriter.