It barely cracked the R&B chart in 1972. Now it plays at every Super Bowl.

Brandi Carlile described her interpretation of “America the Beautiful” with lyrics that “reads more like a prayer than a boast.” The folk-rock heroine also said in her pregame news conference that she ...

Poet and Wellesley College scholar Katharine Lee Bates, who wrote "America the Beautiful," in 1895. (Courtesy John de Graaf) "O beautiful for heroes proved/In liberating strife ..." These words from ...

One mild October evening in 2001, my ABC News pals Kayce and Peter Jennings hosted a party in their elegant New York apartment to celebrate the book I’d just published, a history of the song, “America ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No “Joke”: Brandi Carlile is one of the few vocalists out there with so powerhouse of a voice, she could almost be considered ...

WASHINGTON - An awkward few moments at Donald Trump’s inauguration turned into a powerful performance as the attendees joined Carrie Underwood to sing ‘America the Beautiful.’ The country music star ...