Star Spangled Banner got a leg up on America the Beautiful in 1896 at the first modern Olympics (which the US team swept) when the Greek bandmaster asked the leader of the US team whether he should play SSB or ATB when the IS won and the team leader chose SSB. (He was a terrible misogynist even for those days and didn't like ATB because it had been written by a woman)
Star Spangled Banner got a leg up on America the Beautiful in 1896 at the first modern Olympics (which the US team swept) when the Greek bandmaster asked the leader of the US team whether he should play SSB or ATB when the IS won and the team leader chose SSB. (He was a terrible misogynist even for those days and didn't like ATB because it had been written by a woman)
Star Spangled Banner got a leg up on America the Beautiful in 1896 at the first modern Olympics (which the US team swept) when the Greek bandmaster asked the leader of the US team whether he should play SSB or ATB when the IS won and the team leader chose SSB. (He was a terrible misogynist even for those days and didn't like ATB because it had been written by a woman)
And not even Avery Brundage.