“God Bless America” would become a sensation ... Berlin sold more than half a million copies of the sheet music in 1939 alone. After the United States entered World War II, she performed ...

NEW YORK — Depending on who’s singing, “God Bless America” lasts anywhere from ... He plays piano and guitar. He can read sheet music. And when the clubhouse’s postgame sound system ...

Kate Smith sang this verse in her earliest radio performances of "God Bless America," but by February 1939, when the printed sheet music was copyrighted, the storm clouds stayed, but Berlin ...

Years later, it’s easy to speculate on why it was “God Bless ... line about guiding America “to the right” to “through the night,” and sometime before the sheet music was copyrighted ...