It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is a notoriously difficult song to sing, though the problem most performers have is with the range of the song, not the words.

Summary " In September, 2014, Baltimore and the United States will mark the bicentennial of the event that inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner." But Francis Scott Key's poem, set to a British drinking ...

After witnessing a crucial episode of the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that, set to the melody of an 18th-century English drinking song, captured the patriotic picture of the ...

In the emotional atmosphere following the Civil War, the song stirred a sense of patriotism in a new generation and Americans came to see the flag as a national treasure. Eventually the family came to ...

Woman's 'Star-Spangled Banner' Rendition Stuns Crowd, Catapults Her to Viral Stardom Many have tried and failed. Then came Star Swain.

CAMARILLO, Calif.-While Dana Isabel Joaquin Juat sang the Star Spangled Banner, Sarah Ysordia signed it. Ysordia lost her sight and hearing due to Usher Syndrome as a child, but that didn't stop ...

Overlaying text in the video reads: “watch the dodgers tell me i can’t sing the spanish star spangled banner that Roosevelt literally commissioned in 1945 … So I did it anyway.

Beyoncé opened her show with "Ameriican Requiem" before serenading the crowd with her Beatles cover "Blackbiird" and the Star Spangled Banner.