Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem ... was composed in the late 1700s by a man named John Stafford Smith. The song was linked to the Anacreontic ...

The poem became the now legendary "Star-Spangled Banner" and eventually began ... It was written by a man named John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society. The society was a men's social ...