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Smith was born on May 1, 1907, in Greenville, Virginia, to Charlotte 'Lottie' Yarnell (née Hanby) and William Herman Smith and grew up in Washington, D.C. [5] Her father owned the Capitol News Company, distributing newspapers and magazines in the greater D.C. area. [6] She was the youngest of three daughters, the middle child dying in infancy.
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.
The title of the movie is the same as the title of the stage version of the show. The movie features star appearances by Irving Berlin, Kate Smith, Frances Langford and Joe Louis as themselves. Smith's full-length rendition of Berlin's "God Bless America" is arguably the most famous cinematic
The Yankees have moved on from Kate Smith's "God Bless America" after discovering several songs she recorded in the late 1930s.
The song was popularized by singer Kate Smith, whose rendition was a hit in 1931, [2] [better source needed] and by singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson. [3] [4] It was also featured in a 1931 all-star recording of a medley of songs from George White's Scandals. One verse runs: Someone had to pick the cotton, Someone had to plant the corn,
Vive la France, God bless America.” My hope is really just this: Let’s be the country that the French of Normandy see when they look at these veterans. Let’s be that America, the one the ...
Watch Donald Trump and Elon Musk perform a bizarre duet of God Bless America at Mar-a-Lago. The President-elect and his new chief efficiency officer joined opera singer Chris Macchio for a ...
Lauren Hart (born January 10, 1967) is an American singer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.She is best known for singing the American and Canadian national anthems prior to Philadelphia Flyers games, the team for which her father Gene Hart was the long-time television and radio announcer for 29 years, and also performing a duet of "God Bless America" with a taped version of Kate Smith on ...