But how much do you really know about our national anthem. (Find more historical Times shade-throwing here. By Jessie Campisi and AJ Willingham, CNN It’s a song every American has heard countless times and can probably recite by heart. A 1927 New York Times editorial, "Wanted, A National Anthem," voiced the common concerns. But many were not happy with merely codifying what had become complacency. The song had been the de facto anthem since President Wilson ordered it played at military events.
Listen here (audio, and inspiration for this post, via the National Museum of American History). This little-known incident led to a chain of events that put Francis Scott Key among the British. William Beanes, arrested several stragglers for looting.
As British troops returned to their ships after capturing Washington, DC, they passed through Upper Marlboro where local citizens, including Dr. It's based off an 18th-century British pub song called "To Anacreon in Heaven." That's right: a song to be sung whilst drunk. The Star-Spangled Banner - A Flag and A Song. The composition, argued the Music Supervisors National Conference in 1930 (now the National Association for Music Education), "was too difficult a musical composition to be rendered properly by schoolchildren, informal gatherings and public meetings where the singing of the national anthem appropriate," according to a 1930 New York Times article.Īlthough Francis Scott Key penned the words in 1814 during the War of 1812, the melody is actually much older. Even before Congress declared "The Star-Spangled Banner" the official anthem of the United States in 1931, its complicated melody and soaring pitches were controversial.
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