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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.
When Guthrie was tired of hearing Kate Smith sing "God Bless America" on the radio in the late 1930s, he sarcastically called his song "God Blessed America for Me" before renaming it "This Land Is Your Land". [1] In 1989, a 1947 release on the Asch record label was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. [2]
The Yankees have moved on from Kate Smith's "God Bless America" after discovering several songs she recorded in the late 1930s.
The Philadelphia Flyers removed a statue of late singer Kate Smith from outside the team's arena on Sunday and will no longer play Smith's rendition of "God Bless America" at games, according to a ...
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 resurgent “God Bless The USA Bible” featured in Trump’s recent ad is an altered version of the original concept, a modification that likely followed the publishing shake-up.
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,