The words to the US National Anthem were written by Francis Scott Key, as he watched the British Royal Navy bombarding Fort ...

The poem was set to a tune called “The Anacreontic Song,” which was composed in the late 1700s by a man named John Stafford Smith. The song was linked to the Anacreontic Society, which was an ...

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Ironically, the poem was set to the tune of “To Anacreon in Heaven,” a popular British drinking and womanizing song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society. The practice of ...

Nicholson read the poem, he was inspired to set it to the melody of a popular ditty, John Stafford Smith’s “The Anacreontic ...

The poem was set to a tune called “The Anacreontic Song,” which was composed in the late 1700s by a man named John Stafford Smith. The song was linked to the Anacreontic Society, which was an ...