WANTED: God bless America by Kate Smith

[studebakerphonos]

Any 78s available out there of this?

Thanks, Bob

[BiliBug]

Any 78s available out there of this?

Thanks, Bob

LOL. I literally just got a VG condition 78 of this in an album of 10 records for $10. Not for sale, unfortunately, but it is possible to find.

-BB

[travisgreyfox]

I think I have 2 copies at home. I will check when I get off and send you a PM.



-Travis

[OrthoFan]

I'm wondering if anyone has a recording with the original introduction, as first performed on her Armistice Day program in 1938:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1rKQReqJZg

Note the line "let us all be grateful that we're far from there," was later changed to "let us all be grateful for a land so fair."

OrhoFan

[studebakerphonos]

Thanks OrthoFan !

[NEFaurora]

Anybody see that Kate Smith was in the news this past week???

It's stating now that she was Racist!...Then again consider the sources.....


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/nyre ... dwood.html

and...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertai ... 7f6e5b3b61

and...

https://nypost.com/2019/04/27/yankees-k ... ca-itself/

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Tony K.

Edison Collector/Restorer

[OrthoFan]

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[marcapra]

Anybody see that Kate Smith was in the news this past week???

It's stating now that she was Racist!...Then again consider the sources.....

I read the article in the New York Times and except for the title saying "Kate Smith sang racist songs", I didn't read anywhere in the article that the reporter or the news paper concluded that Kate Smith was a racist. They said there was a controversy and that the NAACP was upset with her, but it was just an article reporting on the controversy without making a statement for or against. And the reporter even gave the mayor the last say in supporting Kate Smith and even putting up the statue of her there.

[gramophone-georg]

Why do we even need to bring this controversy into someone else's "wanted" ad?