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Toni Morgan will have the honor of singing during the 101st burning of Zozobra.
After witnessing a crucial episode of the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that, set to the melody of an ...
‘Days of Our Lives' Star Susan-Seaforth Hayes Reacts To Daytime Emmy Snub For Episode Involving Late Husband: "Perhaps Judges Felt I Wasn't Acting" US state department issues first of 1,350 ...
The origins for "The Star-Spangled Banner" came from "The Anacreontic Song" -- a theme song of sorts composed by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, an 18th century amateur musicians ...
The last time the band performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” for a large audience, it was back in January 2003 for Super Bowl XXXVII, about a month and a half before the Chicks were blacklisted ...
Baltimore-based artist Dan Deacon performed an electronic, autotuned national anthem that seemingly divided fans before the Orioles swept the Mets in a double-header Thursday.
Before “The Star-Spangled Banner” was adopted as the national anthem in 1931, “Yankee Doodle Dandy” was sometimes used as a traditional ceremonial song. Four versus of the anthem.
Artist Dan Deacon performed a controversial auto-tune version of the “Star Spangled Banner” before the first game of Thursday ...
The story of Francis Scott Key's "Star Spangled Banner" is the stuff of grade-school history books. But the song has inspired some memorable interpretations in the recent past, as each performer ...
The original Star-Spangled Banner was raised in triumph at the end of the perilous fight . . . a battle watched o'er the ramparts by Francis Scott Key, detained aboard a British ship nearby.
Every school kid used to know the story behind America’s National Anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner. How, on September 13, 1814, British warships fired a ...
The US Open men’s and women’s singles finals did not appear to feature "The Star-Spangled Banner" over the weekend, as Novak Djokovic and Coco Gauff won titles in their categories. Gauff ...