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1938 American patriotic song by Irving Berlin

"God Anoint America"
Song
Written 1918, 1938 (revised)
Published 1939 past Irving Berlin Inc.
Genre Patriotic vocal
Songwriter(south) Irving Berlin

"God Bless America" is an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin during World War I in 1918 and revised past him in the stitch to Earth War Two in 1938. The later version was notably recorded by Kate Smith, becoming her signature song.[i] [ii]

"God Bless America" takes the form of a prayer (with introductory lyrics noting that "equally we raise our voices, in a solemn prayer") for God'due south blessing and peace for the nation ("...stand up beside her and guide her through the night...").

History [edit]

Irving Berlin wrote the vocal in 1918 while serving in the U.S. Army at Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York, only decided that information technology did not fit in a revue called Yip Yip Yaphank, then he set up it bated.[3] The lyrics at that time included the line "Make her victorious on country and cream, God anoint America..."[2] too as "Stand beside her and guide her to the right with the calorie-free from above".[4]

Music critic Jody Rosen says that a 1906 Jewish dialect novelty song, "When Mose with His Nose Leads the Band," contains a six-note fragment that is "instantly recognizable as the opening strains of 'God Bless America'". He interprets this as an example of Berlin'due south "addiction of interpolating bits of half-remembered songs into his own numbers."[five] Berlin, born State of israel Baline, had himself written several Jewish-themed novelty tunes.[6]

In 1938, with the rise of Adolf Hitler, Irving Berlin, who was Jewish and had arrived in the U.Southward. from Russian federation at the age of five, felt it was time to revive it as a "peace vocal", and it was introduced on an Armistice Day broadcast in 1938, sung by Kate Smith on her radio show.[7] Berlin had made some minor changes; past this time, "to the right" might take been considered a call to the political correct, and then he substituted "through the night" instead. He also provided an introduction that is at present rarely heard merely which Smith always used: "While the tempest clouds gather far across the sea / Let us swear fidelity to a country that'southward free / Allow us all be grateful for a land so fair, / As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer." (In her first broadcast of the vocal, Kate Smith sang "that we're far from there" rather than "for a land so off-white".)[four] This was changed when Berlin published the sheet music in March 1939.[4]

Woody Guthrie criticized the vocal, and in 1940 he wrote "This Country Is Your Country," originally titled "God Blessed America For Me," equally a response.[8] Anti-Semitic groups such as the Ku Klux Klan likewise protested against the song due to its authorship by a Jewish immigrant.[4]

In 1943, Smith's rendition was featured in the patriotic musical This is the Army along with other Berlin songs. The manuscripts in the Library of Congress reveal the evolution of the vocal from victory to peace. Berlin gave the royalties of the song to The God Bless America Fund for redistribution to Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in New York City.[9] Smith performed the vocal on her two NBC boob tube series in the 1950s.[10] "God Bless America" likewise spawned another of Irving Berlin'southward tunes, "Heaven Spotter The Philippines," during the end of World War Ii. The Philippines was an American possession since 1898 and recently liberated from Japanese occupation; Berlin wrote information technology later he heard Filipinos singing a modified version of the vocal replacing "America" with "The Philippines."

The song was used early in the Civil Rights Move as well as at labor rallies.[4] During the 1960s, the vocal was increasingly used by Christian conservatives in the US to signal their opposition to secular liberalism and to silence dissenters who were speaking in favor of communism or in opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.[11]

Later on, from December eleven, 1969,[7] through the early on 1970s, the playing of Smith singing the song before many home games of the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers brought it renewed popularity equally well as a reputation for existence a "skillful luck charm" to the Flyers[seven] long before it became a staple of nationwide sporting events.[7] The Flyers brought Smith in to perform live before Game half-dozen of the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals on May xix, 1974, and the Flyers won the Cup that day.[vii] [x]

Lyrics [edit]

God anoint America, state that I love

Stand beside her and guide her

Through the nighttime with the calorie-free from higher up

From the mountains to the prairies

To the oceans white with foam

God bless America, my home sweet home

God bless America, my home sweet home

Notable public performances [edit]

In 1940 "God Anoint America" was the official campaign song for both President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Republican opponent, Wendell Willkie. At that time, the song represented cultural and religious tolerance.[11]

Irving Berlin personally performed the song on The Ed Sullivan Testify on May 5, 1968, during an episode dedicated to him in honour of his 80th altogether.[12]

During a alive television set broadcast on the evening of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, post-obit addresses by and then Business firm and Senate leaders, Speaker Dennis Hastert (Republican) and Tom Daschle (Democrat), members of the United States Congress broke out into an plain spontaneous poetry of "God Bless America" on the steps of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.[thirteen]

On July 21, 2011, Smith's version of the song was played as NASA's final wakeup telephone call for Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-135), capping the xxx-year Space Shuttle program.

Sports events [edit]

National Hockey League [edit]

"God Bless America" has been performed at home games of the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers and those of the Ottawa Senators in which the visiting squad is from the United States. (The NHL requires arenas in both the U.S. and Canada to perform both "The Star-Spangled Imprint" and "O Canada," the Canadian national anthem, at games that involve teams from both countries.[14])

At some Flyers' home games, especially during big games and the playoffs, their chief anthem singer, Lauren Hart, has sung "God Bless America" alternate lyrics with Kate Smith on a video screen, until 2019. Smith actually appeared in person to sing at select Flyers games, including their 1974 Stanley Loving cup clinching game against the Boston Bruins, to which she received a thunderous ovation from the passionate Philadelphia fans. Before games whenever "God Bless America" is performed until 2019, Lou Nolan, the PA announcer for the Flyers at the Wells Fargo Center, would say: "Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, we ask that yous please rise and remove your hats and salute to our flags and welcome the No. 1 ranked anthemist in the NHL, Our very own Lauren Hart, as she sings (if the visiting team is from Canada, O Canada, followed by) God Bless America, accompanied by the peachy Kate Smith."[xv]

At some Senators home games since 2000–01,[16] if the visiting squad is from the U.S., their master anthem singer, Ontario Provincial Police Lawman Lyndon Slewidge, has sung "God Bless America" and "O Canada."[16] An instance of this came during the Senators' home opener during the 2002–03 season, when they were habitation against the New Bailiwick of jersey Devils.[17]

During Tom Golisano'due south time equally possessor of the Buffalo Sabres, the team occasionally substituted "God Anoint America" for "The Star-Spangled Banner" during sure special events. When this occurred, Ronan Tynan was brought in to sing the song while usual canticle singer Doug Allen sang "O Canada."

Major League Baseball game [edit]

At Chicago's Wrigley Field during the Vietnam State of war, the song was ofttimes played by the organist as part of his postgame playlist while fans filed out of the stadium.[xviii]

Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, "God Bless America" is normally sung during the seventh-inning stretch in Major League Baseball games, most ofttimes on Sundays,[xix] Opening Mean solar day,[20] Memorial Day,[21] Independence Day, All-Star Game, Labor Day, September xi,[22] and all post-flavor Major League Baseball games. Following the attacks, John Dever, then the Assistant Media Relations Director of the San Diego Padres, suggested the song replace "Accept Me Out to the Ball Game", the more traditional seventh inning anthem.[23] Major League Baseball rapidly followed the Padres lead and instituted it league-broad for the rest of the season. Presently, teams determine individually when to play the vocal.

The New York Yankees, at Yankee Stadium domicile games,[24] is currently the only Major League club to play "God Bless America" at every game during the 7th-inning stretch. The Yankees' Aye Network televises its performance during all games before going to a commercial. During major games, such every bit Opening 24-hour interval, national holidays, playoff contests, or games against the Boston Red Sox or New York Mets, the Yankees will often have Irish tenor Ronan Tynan perform the song.[25]

On August 26, 2008, at a Boston Red Sox game at Yankee Stadium, a fan who had attempted to leave for the restroom during the playing of the song was restrained and subsequently sent out of the building by NYPD officers. Part of the resolution of the resulting lawsuit was that the New York Yankees announced that they would no longer restrict the motility of fans during the playing of the vocal.[26]

On September 15, 2009, three high school teens filed a lawsuit against New Jersey'southward minor league Newark Bears for being ejected from Eagles Riverfront Stadium over their refusal to stand during the playing of "God Bless America" on June 29, 2009. Before being ejected, they were asked to leave the stadium past Bears president and co-owner Thomas Cetnar.[27]

American football game [edit]

At the January 1, 1976, Rose Bowl, to laurels the start of the Usa Bicentennial, Kate Smith and the UCLA Band performed "God Anoint America" for a national tv audience.

During the Super Basin LI halftime show a pre-recorded introduction by Lady Gaga, who headlined the show, featured both "God Anoint America" and "This Land is Your State".

Indianapolis 500 [edit]

The Indianapolis 500 is traditionally held at the end of May, and "God Bless America" has been sung there since 2003. The song "America the Beautiful" was sung before, just information technology was switched to "God Bless America" in the post-nine/11 era. The song for many years was performed past Florence Henderson, a native Hoosier, and a friend of the Hulman-George family, the track's owners at the time. The operation, oft not televised, immediately precedes the national anthem. Henderson routinely sang the entire vocal, including the prologue, and in some years sang the chorus a second time.

Recorded versions [edit]

Bing Crosby recorded the song on March 22, 1939 for Decca Records.[28]

In the 1978 film The Deer Hunter by Michael Cimino, the vocal is sung at the stop.

In 1997, American state music recording artist LeAnn Rimes recorded a cover of the song on her second studio anthology, Yous Light Upward My Life: Inspirational Songs.[29] After the events of September 11, Rimes rereleased the song on a compilation anthology by the same proper noun.[30] Rimes likewise released the vocal on a CD single. Two versions were released on October sixteen, 2001.[31] Both versions contain the vocal equally the A-side track, just the B-side tracks were dissimilar. One released to the general public was released with the B-side track, "Put a Little Holiday in Your Eye,"[31] and the other was released to radio with the B-side track of Rimes's rendition of "The National Canticle."[32] Rimes's version peaked at No. 51 on the Billboard Land Songs nautical chart on October 27, 2001.[33]

The song was recorded past New York City's "singing cop," Daniel Rodríguez, and charted for one week at No. 99 on the Billboard Hot 100 as a single. Before the 2001 versions, the terminal time "God Anoint America" had been a Billboard chart hit was in 1959 when Connie Francis reached No. 36 with her version (the B-side of her Top 10 hitting "Amid My Souvenirs").

On January 20, 2017, Jackie Evancho released Together We Stand up, a disc containing three patriotic songs including "God Bless America".[34] The song charted at No. five on Billboard'southward Classical Digital Song sales chart.[35]

The Trigger-happy Femmes recorded "God Anoint America" for their 2022 anthology Hotel Final Resort.

Celine Dion [edit]

"God Bless America"
Celine Dion - God Bless America promo.jpg
Promotional single by Celine Dion
from the album God Bless America
Released Oct 24, 2001
Genre Popular
Length iii:47
Label
  • Columbia
  • Epic
Songwriter(south) Irving Berlin
Producer(s) David Foster
Celine Dion singles chronology
"Don't Relieve It All for Christmas Day"
(2000) 		"God Anoint America"
(2001) 		"Sous le vent"
(2001)

On September 21, 2001, following the September 11 attacks, Canadian popular star Celine Dion performed "God Bless America" during the television special America: A Tribute to Heroes. Shortly afterwards on October xvi, 2001 Sony Music released a benefit album called God Bless America, which featured Dion singing the vocal. The album debuted at number i on the Billboard 200 and became the first charity album to reach the top since USA for Africa's We Are the World in 1985.[36] Dion's version also received enough radio airplay to reach number 14 on Billboard 's Adult Contemporary chart.[37] The music video premiered in September 2001.

Dion performed the vocal also a few times during 2002. In 2003, she performed information technology at the Super Bowl XXXVII.[38] She likewise sang it on July 4, 2004 in her A New Day... prove. "God Anoint America" performed by Dion exists in two versions, live and studio. Both included on collections to assemble funds for the victims of the terrorist attacks of September xi, 2001, and their families. The live version was released on America: A Tribute to Heroes CD and DVD on Dec 4, 2001. The studio version was released on the God Bless America album. The song was recorded on September xx, 2001, the 24-hour interval before the telethon. It was meant to be a replacement for the operation in the event something happened and Dion could non appear. The song was produced past David Foster.

Weekly charts [edit]

Year-finish charts [edit]

Parodies [edit]

The song has spawned numerous parodies.

  • An irreverent version of the lyrics was printed in the book The Mad World of William Yard. Gaines, past Frank Jacobs (1972). Mad magazine's veteran art editor, John Putnam, had prepared some copy and sent information technology to the printers; the word "America" was divided, with a hyphen, at the finish of one line. The copy was returned to Putnam past the typesetting foreman, who explained that his union had a dominion forbidding the splitting of that word. Putnam obliged, rewriting the re-create and sending it dorsum with this enclosure:
Don't pause "America";
Land we extol;
Don't deface it;
Upper-case information technology;
Keep information technology clean, keep information technology pure, proceed information technology whole;
In Bodoni, in Futura,
In Sometime English, in Cabell {{sic}}--
Don't break "America"--
Or we'll—raise—hell![ citation needed ]
  • In "Temporarily Humboldt County" on The Firesign Theatre's offset album Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Similar Him (1968), a group of Native American men briefly and ironically sing "God bless Vespucciland..." to the tune of "God Bless America" equally they fade off into the distance. The reference is a play on the proper noun of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, whose first name is the source for the name "America" for the New Globe.
  • In the title track of their 1969 anthology How Can You Be in Two Places at In one case When You're Not Anywhere at All, The Firesign Theatre briefly interruption into lines based on the song: "Ask the postman. Inquire the mailman. Ask the milkman...white with foam."
  • God Bless America, a 2011 film written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, is a nighttime one-act that satirizes the present-day American values. The story revolves around a loveless, jobless, peradventure terminally ill human being and his 16-year-old female companion, who become on a killing spree against what they consider the stupidest, cruelest, and virtually repugnant members of American lodge.

See too [edit]

  • "America the Beautiful"

References [edit]

Notes
  1. ^ "God Anoint America and Kate Smith". katesmith.org.
  2. ^ a b "God Bless America (Memory): American Treasures of the Library of Congress". loc.gov. August 2007.
  3. ^ *Collins, Ace. Songs Sung, Ruddy, White, and Blue: The Stories Behind America's Best-Loved Patriotic Songs. HarperResource, 2003, p. 82-83.
  4. ^ a b c d e "From Peace To Patriotism: The Shifting Identity Of 'God Bless America'". Interview of Sheryl Kaskowitz by Robert Siegel. NPR. September two, 2013. Retrieved September ten, 2013.
  5. ^ Rosen, Jody (June 2006). "Jewface" (PDF). Reboot Stereophonic.
  6. ^ Alexander, Michael (2003). Jazz Historic period Jews. Princeton University Press. p. 161. ISBN978-0-691-11653-2.
  7. ^ a b c d due east "Flyers History - Kate Smith" Archived Apr 20, 2019, at the Wayback Automobile FlyersHistory.com. Accessed in 2007.
  8. ^ Spitzer, Nick (February fifteen, 2012). "The Story Of Woody Guthrie'due south 'This State Is Your Country'". NPR. Archived from the original on December five, 2017. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
  9. ^ Wendell, Bryan (February 3, 2016). "How the BSA benefits every time y'all hear 'God Bless America'". Bryan on Scouting . Retrieved February 3, 2016.
  10. ^ a b McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Tv set (quaternary ed.). New York: Penguin Books. pp. 446–447.
  11. ^ a b Kaskowitz, Sheryl (July 4, 2013). ""God Bless America" and Republicans: How the vocal became an anthem of conservatives and the Christian right". Slate . Retrieved July seven, 2013.
  12. ^ "Irving Berlin on The Ed Sullivan Show – God Bless America". The Ed Sullivan Bear witness (blog). July iv, 2012. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  13. ^ Karl, Jonathan (September 12, 2001). "Congress vows unity, reprisals for attacks". CNN. Archived from the original on January half dozen, 2010.
  14. ^ Allen, Kevin (March 23, 2003). "NHL Seeks to Stop Booing For a Song". USA Today . Retrieved October 29, 2008.
  15. ^ May 24th, 2010 Anthems sung by Kate Smith & Lauren Hart Canadiens Vs. Flyers HNiC on YouTube
  16. ^ a b "Shots From the Point". Ottawa Denizen. November 4, 2000. p. F3. Renowned canticle singer Lyndon Slewidge also sounds a flake different, with a new background music accompanying his lyrics to O Canada. He will also substitute God Save America for The Star Spangled Banner on selected occasions.
  17. ^ New Jersey Devils Hockey: New Jersey Devils at Ottawa Senators (radio). New Jersey Devils Radio WABC Talk Radio 77 AM (New York). Oct ten, 2002.
  18. ^ "Monday's human activity heroic after 30 years Outfielder recalls protecting land'due south honour from protesters". Major League Baseball. Apr 25, 2006. Retrieved April 25, 2006.
  19. ^ ""God Bless America" and baseball, 10 years later". CBSSports.com. August 11, 2011.
  20. ^ "Atlanta Braves celebrate Opening Night at Turner Field on Monday, March 31". Atlanta Braves. Archived from the original on Nov v, 2013. Retrieved June 16, 2012.
  21. ^ "MLB Honors Memorial Twenty-four hours". Daily News. New York.
  22. ^ "Baseball plans twenty-four hour period of remembrance for ix/11". Major League Baseball game.
  23. ^ "God Anoint America and Baseball 10 Years After ix/11". Sporting News. September 2011. Archived from the original on February iii, 2013.
  24. ^ "NY baseball fan settles 'God Anoint America' suit". yesnetwork.com.
  25. ^ "Ex-Yankees 'God Bless America' Vocalizer Ronan Tynan Moves to Boston - Boston Red Sox". NESN.com. March 6, 2010.
  26. ^ "Yankees Settle 'God Bless America' Case, Won't Restrict Spectators' Movements During Vocal". nyclu.org. July 7, 2009. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  27. ^ "Teens Sue Over Minor League Ejection". news.aol.com. September fifteen, 2009. Archived from the original on September 23, 2009. Retrieved September 15, 2009.
  28. ^ "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING mag. International Club Crosby. Retrieved Baronial 5, 2017.
  29. ^ "You Calorie-free Up My Life: Inspirational Songs: Leann Rimes: Music". Amazon. 1997. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
  30. ^ "God Anoint America: Leann Rimes: Music". Amazon . Retrieved May half-dozen, 2012.
  31. ^ a b "God Bless America / Put a Picayune Holiday in Your Heart: Leann Rimes: Music". Amazon . Retrieved April 29, 2012.
  32. ^ God Bless America/The National Anthem (Promotional CD single). LeAnn Rimes. Adjourn Records. 2001. D-1631 PRCD#510032. {{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  33. ^ "God Bless America - LeAnn Rimes". Billboard . Retrieved May 6, 2012.
  34. ^ "Check Out Jackie Evancho Rehearsing for Her Presidential Inauguration Gig", Billboard, January xx, 2017
  35. ^ Search results: Jackie Evancho, Billboardbiz, accessed 1 Feb 2017
  36. ^ Glatzer, Jenna (2005). Céline Dion: For Keeps . Andrews McMeel Publishing. ISBN0-7407-5559-5.
  37. ^ a b "Celine Dion Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved July v, 2020.
  38. ^ Hooper, Barrett (Jan 24, 2003). "Homo, information technology feels like a great show". National Post. p. A3. Marc Anthony and Mary J. Blige sang "America the Beautiful", which was likewise performed at Super Basin XXXV by Ray Charles and at "Super Basin 11" past Vicki Carr. This is the first time for God Bless America, which Ms. Dion volition perform to a prerecorded music track and to backing vocals past a large choir.
  39. ^ Jaspers, Sam (2006). Ultratop 1995-2005. Volume & Media Publishing. ISBN90-5720-232-8.
  40. ^ "2001: The Year in Charts" (PDF). Billboard Radio Monitor. December 21, 2001. p. 55. Retrieved July v, 2020.
Full general references
  • Collins, Ace. Songs Sung, Red, White, and Blueish: The Stories Behind America'due south Best-Loved Patriotic Songs. HarperResource, 2003, ISBN 0060513047
  • Kashkowitz, Sheryl. God Bless America: The Surprising History of an Iconic Song. Oxford Univ. Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-xix-991977-2

External links [edit]

  • Library of Congress folio with more information, pictures of manuscript, etc.
  • Kate Smith sings "God Bless America" (1930s newsreel) on YouTube

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