For all the VETs out there
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Nov 8, 2017 07:05:21 #
I couldn't play it because I'm having problems with my audio system, but I've played it many times before. (I weep every time.) No one--no one--could sing that like Kate Smith! You can tell that she believed it in every bone. I understand that Irving Berlin actually gave the song to her, and in turn she assigned all royalties to the Boy Scouts of America.
Nov 8, 2017 07:24:08 #
Remember her singing this on her show which aired on NBC in the late afternoon in the early 1950's. I wasn't a Vet yet, so it means more to me now. Thanks for sharing.
Nov 8, 2017 07:30:19 #
Thanks, great video, great song, seen it many times and never get tired of it
Nov 8, 2017 08:54:46 #
Whenever my Grandmother would baby sit me, she always turned on Kate Smith and listened to Kate Smith sing ''God Bless America''. My Grandmother emigrated from Poland around 1905 at the age of 15 with no money. The ship she road in was used to ship cattle from America to Germany on its return passage. Later in life, She suffered the loss of her youngest son in Germany one month from the end of WW2. She listened to Kate Smith sing with tears in her eyes, but never failed to do or say anything while Kate Smith sang ''God Bless America.'' Compare that to so many of our new emigrants in Minneapolis, Dearborn Michigan, and other parts of our country, or for that part the oppressed million dollar + cry babies playing games in the NFL.
Nov 8, 2017 09:18:45 #
RS
Loc: W Columbia, SC
Leon S wrote:
Whenever my Grandmother would baby sit me, she alw... (show quote)
A very touching story!!
Amen!! And God bless . . .
Nov 8, 2017 09:23:28 #
Nov 8, 2017 09:35:54 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
That was quite a video to watch. She had an orchestra and chorus backing her up with that great voice of hers. Radio was king back then. My grandmother had a radio during that era. She told me that everything that needed to be known was on the radio, or newspapers that cost five cents. No TV or internet as we enjoy today. Thanks for sharing.
Nov 8, 2017 12:46:09 #
this song reminds me of my Grandmother and my Mom they played it and played it every time they could get near the record player... great song, great lady...RIP
Nov 8, 2017 13:44:02 #
I'm old enough to remember her show on TV. ( Black and White)
Her theme song was "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain".
What a voice.
Her theme song was "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain".
What a voice.
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Nov 8, 2017 20:22:27 #
A few years ago, the post office offered a Kate Smith stamp. I remember a 30-40 year old mother coming in with her teen-age daughter. Mother looks at the stamp, and says "Oh, Kate Smith. What a beautiful voice .... ". Daughter responds: "Just who IS she?". Mother comes back and says: "you've hear the saying 'it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings'? ... That's who"! Daughter did say "Oh wow, she was a REAL person?!"
Watched her many times on B/W TV (with a round screen and next to zero resolution, no less), and she can never be forgotten.
Watched her many times on B/W TV (with a round screen and next to zero resolution, no less), and she can never be forgotten.
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