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ELECTION DAY 2020 - Kate Smith Sings God Bless America (1938) [RESTORED] - Special Trump ending

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Channel: MUSICOM PRODUCTIONS · 2018 · Music

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Ready to VOTE? What a perfect song to accompany the anthem of what our country once stood for, but then something went 'haywire', as 'ol Ms. 'Moon over the Mountain' would say...

Couldn't you just imagine Trump saying "I'd look her right in that fat, ugly face of hers..."

Old-Time Radio ILLUSTRATED - 1938 Kate Smith "God Bless America" - Original Broadcast RESTORED

If you thought you saw something near the end, it's Fake News. Just like Kate's story - which REALLY was phony! 

"God Bless America" is an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin during World War I in 1918 and revised by him in the run up to World War II in 1938. The later version has notably been recorded by Kate Smith, becoming her signature song.

Unlike Miss Smith's patter that the song was "written for me"....Irving Berlin actually wrote the song in 1918 while serving in the U.S. Army at Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York, but decided that it did not fit in a revue called Yip Yip Yaphank, so he set it aside (the music was considered by critics to be 'saccharin'). The lyrics at that time included the line "Make her victorious on land and foam, God bless America..."as well as "Stand beside her and guide her to the right with the light from above".

Music critic Jody Rosen says that a 1906 Jewish dialect novelty song, "When Mose with His Nose Leads the Band," contains a six-note fragment that is "instantly recognizable as the opening strains of 'God Bless America'". He interprets this as an example of Berlin's "habit of interpolating bits of half-remembered songs into his own numbers." Berlin, born Israel Baline, had himself written several Jewish-themed novelty tunes.

In 1938, with the rise of Adolf Hitler, Irving Berlin, who was Jewish and had arrived in America from Russia at the age of five, felt it was time to revive it as a "peace song," and it was introduced on an Armistice Day broadcast in 1938, sung by Kate Smith on her CBS radio show, "The Kate Smith Hour". Berlin had made some minor changes; by this time, "to the right" might have been considered a call to the political right, so he substituted "through the night" instead.

This video is a combination of Kate Smith's premiere 1938 introduction and then transitions to a 1940 rendition of "God Bless America" - the version we are familiar with today.

This performance HAS been time-compressed. Pitch is same but the tempo has been increased to shave off 25 seconds. You are glad I did...

The 1938 broadcast version is available online - and is performed and arranged similarly, however, it adds the verses which lengthens the song considerably and is unknown by most. Also, near the end, there is feedback audible in the recording from the PA in the theater during the broadcast - therefore, for editorial sake, the musical performance is actually from a 1940 broadcast - and IS NOT the soundtrack to the W-B 1943 film as presented here from "This Is The Army", but is synchronized to it.

BTW, send a salami to your boy in the army if ya got any beef with my Easter Egg near the ending.

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