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Berlin gave the royalties of the song to The God Bless America Fund for redistribution to Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in New York City. [9] Smith performed the song on her two NBC television series in the 1950s. [10] "God Bless America" also spawned another of Irving Berlin's tunes, "Heaven Watch The Philippines," during the end of World War II.
Just minutes before his statement was released, the President joined a crowd of thousands to sing Berlin's "God Bless America" at a luncheon in Boston. Former President Ronald Reagan , who costarred in Berlin's 1943 musical This Is the Army, said, "Nancy and I are deeply saddened by the death of a wonderfully talented man whose musical genius ...
God Bless America [6] 1937–1941 God Gave You to Me 1912–1916 Goodbye, France 1917–1921 Goodbye, Girlie, And Remember Me 1907–1911 Goody, Goody, Goody, Goody, Good 1912–1916 Happy Easter 1947–1951 Happy Holiday: 1942–1946 Happy Little Country Girl 1912–1916 Harem Life 1917–1921 Harlem On My Mind 1932–1936 He Ain't Got Rhythm
Siyahamba (written down by Andries Van Tonder, and possibly composed by him, or possibly a Zulu folk song) is a South African hymn that became popular in North American churches in the 1990s. The title means "We Are Marching" or "We are Walking" in the Zulu language .
Donald Trump, the president, either does not know or does not care about the lyrics to "God Bless America." After rescinding his invitation to host the Philadelphia Eagles at the White House upon ...
Berlin was touring U.S. military bases with a stage production of This Is the Army, in 1945. [3] During a stop in the Philippines, he heard children in Leyte singing the song God Bless America (which he had written in 1918 and had revised in 1938) with the lyric "God Bless the Philippines". Touched by that and feeling that they might like a ...
The original lyrics [9] were composed on February 23, 1940, in Guthrie's room at the Hanover House hotel at 43rd St. and 6th Ave. (101 West 43rd St.) in New York. The line "This land was made for you and me" does not appear in the original manuscript at the end of each verse, but is implied by Guthrie's writing of those words at the top of the page and by his subsequent singing of the line ...
Lazy (Irving Berlin song) Let Yourself Go (Irving Berlin song) Let's All Be Americans Now; Let's Face the Music and Dance; Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee; Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk (Irving Berlin song)