{"id":27741,"date":"2010-09-14T07:20:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T11:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=27741"},"modified":"2022-10-17T08:25:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T12:25:07","slug":"happy-birthday-star-spangled-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=27741","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Star-Spangled Banner"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Percy Moran<\/i><\/p>\n

Francis Scott Key catching that glimpse on September 13, 1814. Within five days, his poem had been circulated throughout Baltimore, with instructions that it should be sung to the tune of “To Anacreon in Heaven”, an already-existing British song. <\/p>\n

Here is one of the original broadsides of the lyrics. It was called “The Defense of Fort McHenry” at the time.<\/p>\n

I can’t help but think of Eddie Izzard’s very funny bit about the singing of the national anthem and if you can’t remember the lyrics:<\/p>\n

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The Star-Spangled Banner is one of the more difficult anthems to sing (I love that in Nashville<\/i>, Hal Philip Walker, the unseen candidate for the Presidency of the United States, rolling around town in his van blasting his campaign promises into the apathetic air, says that he will make sure that he changes the National Anthem because “Nobody knows the words”), it starts low and catapults itself up high, and it has defeated even very good singers on occasion. <\/p>\n

Some wonderful clips below of the singing\/playing of the National Anthem. Lots of “confirming and denying”!<\/p>\n

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\nAnd here is what may be the most famous version<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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