God Bless America, First Radio performance, Armistice Day November 10, 1938, Kate Smith
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- "This is the original FIRST broadcast radio performance of God Bless America by Irving Berlin as introduced by Kate Smith on November 10, 1938. She later recreated it for the Warner Bros. film but this is the actual debut. Someone on Ebay (Epluri) has persisted in offering a copy for thousands of dollars claiming that they have the only original disc , even though they have been told otherwise. But they're wrong. You can hear it here for free. Enjoy!"
I was 8 years old when we heard this on the radio. I remember my Mother cried. I have never forgotten it.
What a beautiful voice, and what a Lady to. Every word in a song she was singing, you understood. Tears flowed when she sang, Yes, she was about 5ft. 10inch. Weighed about 200 lbs. but who cared. Now days that's nothing. She had a real pretty face, and it wasn't Bo-toxs either. I heard her on radio long before I saw what she looked like. In a news real at the movies
I just loved hearing one of the greatest classic voices of days gone by. Thank you so much for the opportunity of hearing Kate Smith sing one more.
The One, the Only, The Original....Kate SMith!
Wow, never heard that extra line before! From the green fields in Virginia, to the ???" An amazing discovery!
i just love the old lovely warm voice of kate smith
Thank you so much for posting this amazing radio broadcast. No one sings this song as well as Kate Smith. May she always be remembered.
she was beautiful, she was a real american women and she beat all the competition and status quo when she blew us away she was the very first and she will always be the best.
ohhh its best perfomance ever its just genius, so plain and pleasent
Absolutely beautiful... Thank you
Yep. I watched the "Kate Smith Hour" at 4:00 every day in the 1950's "Moon Over the Mountain" Then I watch the cowboy shows.
Israel Balinsky wrote this and gave it to Kate Smith. (That was "Irving Berlin"). It became the theme song for the troops in WWII.
This should be the National Anthem
Beautiful, RGA
Her program was on Thursday night which was the 10th. The original discs of this performance give the date of the 10th. The other sources just ASSUMED that it was on the 11th without doing the slightest bit of research.
Beautiful, With Depest Respect, RGA
to In The Sticks: when we had regular tv, not cable, wasn't it played on every station when tv went off the air at nite? ahhh, those were the days.
@shambaby "To the Gold Fields out in Nome. God bless America, my home, sweet home!"
There is a little more significance of this line in the verse. It is an indication of the isolationist view of most of the country in 1938 -- apparently including Irving Berlin -- that did not want us to get involved in Europe's troubles. This also happened before we got into WW I, and Irving Berlin wrote an isolationist anti-war song in 1915 "Stay Down Here Where You Belong". As for remastering, I examined the original discs Friday and they are going to be re-transferred soon.
thanks smooch
@Jeeves1952
Sorry about the rude post. I have removed it.
I'm curious: Most sources claim that she introduced the song on November 11, 1938 (then known as Armistice Day, now Veteran's Day). How do you explain the difference in the date?
It should.