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{{Infobox song
| name       = The Anacreontic Song
| cover      = The Anacreontic Song page1.jpg
| alt        = First page of the A. Blands edition (c. 1784-1790).
| border     = yes
| caption    = First page of the A. Blands edition (c.  1784–1790)
| type       =
| artist     = The [[Anacreontic Society]]
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[[File:Smith O Remember.png|thumb|Beginning of the Canon "O Remember" by John Stafford Smith.  It "gain'd a Prize Medal" from the London Catch Club in 1773.<ref>{{cite book |first=Thos. |last=Warren |title=A Twelfth Collection of Catches, Canons and Glees |location=London |publisher=Longman and Broderip |year=c. 1773 |url=http://ks.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/7/77/IMSLP260688-PMLP421496-Various(Warren)-CatchesEtc9-12.pdf |pages=26–27 |oclc=317698257
 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>]]

In this passage, Stevens identified the composer as [[John Stafford Smith]] (1750-1836).  Smith, the son of the organist of Gloucester Cathedral, was sent at a young age to sing in the [[Chapel Royal]], and thereafter soon established himself in the capital.  Like Stevens himself, Smith was a young professional musician active primarily in the chapels and churches of London.  Smith was a published composer by 1772, subsequently winning two composition prizes from the London Catch Club in 1(contracted; show full)===Media===
* [http://www.astrococktail.com/anacreon.html Link to .mp3] as sung by [[John Townley]] on ''The Top Hits Of 1776.''
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqyQO3xhNx0 Link to video] as performed by the [[Georgia Tech Glee Club]].

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