Kate Smith Sings God Bless America

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[navysealdad]

Irving Berlin wrote this song for Kate Smith back in 1938. Nobody could sing it like her. Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith (May 1, 1907 – June 17, 1986) was an American singer, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America".

[Fiji Hill]

Even as a young kid, I knew this song would be immortal.
Unless Barack and leftists schools ban it from being song.
This is when I'll know the end is near.

It is said that when "God Bless America" was popular, the Communist balladeer Woody Guthrie wanted to come up with an atheist song that would express similar sentiments. So he wrote "This Land {Is Your Land}," which he eventually recorded in 1951.

However, "This Land" rips off "The Fire Song," a gospel tune written by Blind Willie Davis in 1928, and which was regularly performed by the chorus choir on the Old Fashioned Revival Hour, a Christian broadcast in the 1940's and 1950's that had an audience of tens of millions. The Carter Family's 1930 hit version of "The Fire Song" can be heard here.

[JimmyMc]

Thank you for the history lesson.
Alice's Restaurant's by Arlo is still a classic. So few people know about it.

[Fiji Hill]

I like Oakie Boogie by Woody's cousin Jack Guthrie & His Oklahomans, from 1947. Some say that this tune is the first rock and roll song. It even became a hit in England, where it was recorded by Ted Heath & His Orchestra--listen to it here.

Jack Guthrie, a WWII Army veteran, died of tuberculosis a few months after the recording was made.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"However, "This Land" rips off "The Fire Song," a gospel tune written by Blind Willie Davis in 1928"

That's the whole point of folk songs. They take and re-use bits of other peoples songs. Nowadays, you would be sued in court for that, but back then it was a common thing to do. Most of Woody's songs had stolen melodies.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Alice's Restaurant's by Arlo is still a classic. So few people know about it."

You got a lot of damn gaul!! I mean, I mean I'm sittin here on the group w bench fillin out forms and stuff because you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the Army burn houses women and children after being a litterbug?

I've seen him in concert many times. He has a lot of great stories. Like the Morotorcycle Song and the story of Rueben Clamzo.