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DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
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If "God Bless America" was just being released for the first time today God and America Haters would be lining up to denounce it as a hate song. Starting with
the Hard Hollywood left and Liberal/Socialist Democrats and brain washed college students who want only their PC ideas to be aired.
On Nov. 11, 1938 Kate Smith performed "God Bless America" on her national network radio show; it was the first time she sang the song on radio, the song was composed twenty years earlier by Irving Berlin.
Frank Sinatra considered Kate Smith the best singer of her time, and said that when he and a million other guys first heard her sing "God Bless America" on the radio, they all pretended to have dust in their eyes as they wiped away a tear or two.
The Star-Spangled Banner only became our national anthem in 1931, surprisingly. I often wonder whether Berlin's song would have beat it to the punch (as national anthem) if only he'd released in when he wrote it in 1918, instead of waiting 20 more years.
Kate Smith was our national treasure for many, many years. No matter what befell this country Kate Smith shone through in song, and during our darkest days of war and anything that troubled this nation, she was with us. She lived and died...a legend in her own time. Miss Smith never married and yet sang the finest love songs this country ever produced as though she understood all there was to know about love, life and romance. She had an ear for music that was impeccable. She sang and, sometimes, even danced with unbridled gusto...there was no reserve in her voice and she gave each note, each measure its full due. She was huge...in every way one can possibly think of that word, including her much commented on stature. At 5'10" and over 225 pounds she not only obliterated most other female songstresses in girth but, more importantly, in what counted most...that glorious, full throated, contralto voice. I was a child when I first heard her sing...but I'll never forget her beautiful voice
The 1943 movie, "This Is The Army", was on TV last weekend. It's always fun to see Ronald Reagan as a very young actor in it. They don't make'em like this anymore.
I get chills every time I hear her sing that.
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