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It's always fun to watch President Obama go to music-related events, most especially because there's usually a good chance that he might get on stage to sing. Tuesday night was one of those nights. The event's part of the In Performance at the White House series and is nothing but fun. The first family hosted a few music greats — everyone from Booker T. Jones to Cyndi Lauper — and Queen Latifah was hosting and singing as well. Justin Timberlake was there, too, for some reason. According to Obama in his opening remarks, the former N'Sync star could offer "a few points" on getting married. (Feel old yet?)

No matter what happened, we couldn't wait to see Obama sing "Sweet Home Chicago" again. "Tonight, I am speaking not just as a President, but as one of America's best-known Al Green impersonators," Obama joked. So let's scratch that "Sweet Home Chicago" request. We wouldn't wait to hear Obama sing anything. But he didn't. Anyway, here's how it went down.

UPDATE (9:16 p.m. EST): Obama didn't sing a thing! Unlike last year's star-studded event that peaked with the president and Buddy Guy passed the microphone back in forth in a finale rendition of "Sweet Home Chicago," Obama stayed in his chair at the end of this year's show. He did sing along to Timberlake's version of "Sittin' by the Dock of the Bay," but the White House didn't even let the press pool stick around for the whole show either. Susan Crabtree from The Washington Times said she was "disappointed."