What Babies Might Say

Some things that babies might say

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Remember Kate Smith?

Do you remember Kate Smith?

   

   

Frank Sinatra considered Kate Smith the best singer of her time, and said that when he and a million other guys first heard her sing "God Bless America" on the radio, they all pretended to have dust in their eyes as they wiped away a tear or two.

  

The link at the bottom will take you to a video showing the very first public singing of "GOD BLESS AMERICA ".

But before you watch it, you should also know the story behind the first public showing of the song.

  

The time was 1940.  America was still in a terrible economic depression.  Hitler was taking over Europe and Americans were afraid we'd have to go to war. It was a time of hardship and worry for most Americans.

  

This was the era just before TV, when radio shows were HUGE, and American families sat around their radios in the evenings, listening to their favorite entertainers, and no entertainer of that era was bigger than Kate Smith.

  

Kate was also large; plus size, as we now say, and the popular phrase still used today is in deference to her,"It ain't over till the fat lady sings".  Kate Smith might not have made it big in the age of TV, but with her voice coming over the radio, she was the biggest star of her time.

  

Kate was also quite patriotic.   It hurt her to see Americans so depressed and afraid of what the next day would bring.  She had hope for America, and faith in her fellow Americans.  She wanted to do something to cheer them up, so she went to the famous American song-writer, Irving Berlin (who also wrote "White Christmas") and asked him to write a song that would make Americans feel good again about their country.   When she described what she was looking for, he said he had just the song for her.

  

He went to his files and found a song that he had written, but never published, 22 years before - way back in 1917.

He gave it to Kate and she worked on it with her studio orchestra.  She and Irving Berlin were not sure how the song would be received by the public, but both agreed they would refuse any profits from God Bless America.

All profits would forever go to the Boy Scouts of America. 

Over the years, the Boy Scouts have received millions of dollars in royalties from this wonderful song.

  

This video starts out with Kate Smith coming into the radio studio with the orchestra, full choir and an audience.

   

She introduces the new song for the very first time, and starts singing.  After the first couple verses, with her voice in the background still singing, scenes are shown from the 1940 movie, "You're In The Army Now."  At the 4:20 mark of the video, you see a young actor in the movie, sitting in an office, reading a paper; it's Ronald Reagan.

  

To this day, God Bless America stirs our patriotic feelings and pride in our country.  Back in 1940, when Kate Smith went looking for a song to raise the spirits of her fellow Americans, I doubt whether she realized just how successful the results would be for her fellow Americans during those years of hardship and worry..... And for many generations of Americans to follow. 

Now that you know the story of the song, I hope you'll enjoy it and treasure it even more. 

  

Few people know there's a lead in to the song, as it usually starts with "God Bless America ....." So here's the entire song as originally sung.

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5th Grade Assignment

A fifth grade teacher in a Christian school asked her class to look at TV commercials and see if they could use them in 20 ways to communicate ideas about God.    ~   Here are some of the results

God is like. 
BAYER ASPIRIN 
He works miracles. 
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God is like
a FORD 
He's got a better idea...
  

 
God is like
COKE
He's the real thing.

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(This is great) 
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God is like
HALLMARK CARDS
He cares enough to send His very best. 
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God is like 
TIDE
He gets the stains out others leave behind
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God is like 
GENERAL ELECTRIC 
He brings good things to life. 
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God is like 
WAL-MART 
He has everything. 
  

 
God is like
ALKA-SELTZER
Try Him, you'll like Him.
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God is like
SCOTCH TAPE
You can't see Him, but you know He's there. 
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God is like.. 
DELTA
He's ready when you are. 
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God is like
ALLSTATE
You're in good hands with Him. 
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God is like 
VO-5 Hair Spray; He holds through all kinds of weather.
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God is like
DIAL SOAP 
Aren't you glad you have Him?  Don't you wish everybody did?
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God is like
The U.S. . POST OFFICE Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet nor ice will keep Him from His appointed destination.

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Chevrolet. . . the heart beat of America.

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God is like 
Maxwell House.
Good to the very last drop.
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  ~   God is like 
B o u n t y
He is the quicker picker upper.

Can handle the tough jobs.
And He won't fall apart on you.
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BLESSINGS FROM MY HOUSE TO YOUR HOUSE.

Peace, Love and Prosperity to all !

  

   

God is like. 
The Energizer Bunny.  

 He Keeps Going, Going, and Going.
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(o- BARKA -o)

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Science vs. Bible

The Bible is always true down to the smallest detail!

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Badlands of North Dakota - 2nd 17 of 35 Photos

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

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Where Wildlife & Buffalo Still Roam

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Badlands of North Dakota - 1st 18 of 35 Photos

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

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Where Wildlife & Buffalo Still Roam

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Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, the 26th U.S. President, fell in love with the North Dakota badlands during his first visit there in 1883 while he was hunting bison. Roosevelt believed the ‘Wild West’ had a rugged lifestyle and ‘perfect freedom.’ The establishment of Theodore Roosevelt National Park was to memorialize Roosevelt’s life, and the influence the landscape had on him and his conservation ethics. The 110 square miles park is divided into three sections packed with wildlife including bison, feral horses, elk, bighorn sheep, white-tailed deer and mule deer, prairie dogs, and 186 species of birds such as golden eagles, sharp-tailed grouse, and wild turkeys. The largest, South Unit, and the North Unit have about 100 miles of foot and horse trails, wildlife viewing, and opportunities for back country hiking and camping. The Elkhorn Ranch Unit which has Roosevelt’s Elkhorn Ranch is located in-between the two larger units. Besides wonderful wildlife, the National Park Service calls the bizarre geologic rock formations the “grim fairyland” of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Roosevelt said the badlands were “so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.” Here’s a look at the wildlife at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, one of the few places where the buffalo still roam.

  

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