Nobody can sing it like Kate!!!  God Please Bless America Again!!!
 The Rest of the Story...

wiped away a tear or two.

Here are the facts...



families sat around their radios in the evenings, listening to their



published, 22 years before - way back in 1917. He gave it to her and she
dollars in royalties from this song.

the movie, sitting in an office, reading a paper; it's Ronald Reagan.

successful the results would be for her fellow Americans during those years
it even more.



Anonymous said...

A little known fact; Ronald Reagan was also at the birth of Christ.

gruaud said...

Another fun fact:

The Philadelphia Flyers' record when "God Bless America" is played or sung in person stands at 94 wins, 26 losses, and 4 ties as of April 26, 2011.

I have always thought that Kate Smith being a hockey good luck charm was pretty cool.

Anonymous said...

"It ain't over till the fat lady sings" is a phrase taken from Grand Opera usually referencing Valkyrie Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung, the last part of Der Ring des Nibelungen.

I don’t understand why did the right wing think tank that wrote this up have to make up that trivial lie? Are they not that bright, never watched any loony toons with fat opera singers, and actually believe that is where the phrase comes from? Or are they pathological lairs that have to just make random stuff up because there is some sort of chemical imbalance in their brains?

I understand making stuff up because you have an agenda, but just making stuff up, I mean what the hell is wrong with these people?

Anonymous said...

Anyone happen to read the Youtube comments? There's some good ol' Reagan worshipping and birtherism going on right there...

Amazing how a patriotic song is enough to set off the baggers. I don't get it, and I'm glad I don't.

ferschitz said...

RE the post about "the fat lady sings"... I noticed that as well. I have no idea why this rightwing think tank hack is saying this is due to Kate Smith singing "God Bless America."

Why is this lie in this treacle? I have no clue, other than it's likely the shill who hacked out this piece of drek was too lazy to check out the provenance of that cliche... like it's really hard and time consuming to search it out... not.

Why not say something ridiculous like that? The rightwing rubes'll never question it.

SoRefined said...

I wish they had mentioned how Irving Berlin became an agnostic later in life and was an ardent supporter of civil rights and therefore a constant target of investigation by J Edgar Hoover's FBI, but I see that didn't make the cut.

Marc with a C said...

The song was written (and published) not in 1917, but in 1918, and was not sung by Kate Smith in 1940 but in 1938. And it was FDR's official campaign song in the 1940 election.


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