American Anthems

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Plea For U.S. Anthem: Giant Petition to Be Given Judiciary Committee of Senate Today". The Washington Post. January 31, 1930. p. 2. Hong Kong protesters sing U.S. anthem in appeal for Trump's help". NBC News. Archived from the original on September 10, 2019 . Retrieved December 6, 2019.

Fisher, Louis, Mourtada-Sabbah, Nada (2002). "Adopting In God We Trust as the U.S. National Motto". Journal of Church and State. 44 (4): 682–83. doi: 10.1093/jcs/44.4.671– via HeinOnline. (Referencing H. Rept. No. 1959, 84th Cong., 2d Sess. (1956) and S. Rept. No. 2703, 84th Cong., 2d Sess. (1956), 2.) Representantforslag om å vedta at "Ja, vi elsker dette landet" skal anerkjennes som Norges offisielle nasjonalsang". Stortinget. 4 June 2019. Ironically, the melody Key assigned to accompany the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner” was a popular English drinking song called “To Anacreon in Heaven.”Professional and amateur singers have been known to forget the words, which is one reason the song is sometimes pre-recorded and lip-synced. Pop singer Christina Aguilera performed wrong lyrics to the song prior to Super Bowl XLV, replacing the song's fourth line, "o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming", with an alteration of the second line, "what so proudly we watched at the twilight's last gleaming". [44] Other times the issue is avoided by having the performer(s) play the anthem instrumentally instead of singing it. The pre-recording of the anthem has become standard practice at some ballparks, such as Boston's Fenway Park, according to the SABR publication The Fenway Project. [45] DeRocco, David (2008). From sea to sea to sea: a newcomer's guide to Canada. Full Blast Productions. pp.121–122. ISBN 978-0-9784738-4-6.

New book reveals the dark history behind the Star Spangled Banner", CBS This Morning, September 13, 2014 (via YouTube). By November 1814, Key’s composition had appeared in print for the first time under the name “The Star-Spangled Banner.” From Drinking Song to American Anthem Japan Policy Research Institute JPRI Working Paper No. 79. Published July 2001. Retrieved 7 July 2007 Zdravljica" was originally adopted by the Socialist Republic of Slovenia. Only the seventh stanza of the song is used as the national anthem.a b Martell, Peter (11 January 2011). "A Song for South Sudan: Writing a New National Anthem". BBC News . Retrieved 10 July 2011. Ali Squalli, Author of Moroccan National Anthem Dies at 86". Morocco World News . Retrieved 6 July 2020. Just days ago, Key’s statue in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park was toppled by protesters during demonstrations against racial injustice. None too specific, there being both a North and a South Carolina, but the quality of this single, recorded for the Beatles' Apple label, gets it on the list.