All the hoopla about the wonderful vocalist, Beyonce, lip or not lip synching our national anthem, made me think about the song itself. First and most obvious, the Star Spangled Banner is a song ...

Is it the lyrics, the music, the writer? When you think of anthems, one really big one probably comes to mind. We’ve heard Francis Scott Key’s “Star Spangled Banner” millions of times ...

Most elementary school classes note that the music for “The Star-Spangled Banner” came from a British drinking song. But in his well-received book, historian Marc Ferris, author of “Star ...

And so it's a hedonistic song and it's a bit silly. But it definitely praises wine and love. CORNISH: When the "Star-Spangled Banner" was put forward to be our national anthem, one of the concerns ...

Several professional singers have flubbed the national anthem over the years. July 11, 2012— -- intro: Is our national anthem just too hard to sing? Singing "The Star Spangled Banner" has ...

“The Star-Spangled Banner” was composed by Francis ... and the sound of bugles and cannon fire on piano. Towards the end of the song, rather than glorify the Old South, Tom quoted the ...

‘Oh, say can you see...’, goes ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’. But what are the words to the rest of the US national anthem? Discover the history and lyrics to the well-known anthem below. The music was ...

“The Star-Spangled Banner” was composed by Francis ... and the sound of bugles and cannon fire on piano. Towards the end of the song, rather than glorify the Old South, Tom quoted the ...