Kate Smith's Heart-Stirring 'God Bless America' - This Is the Army (1943) HD
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- Welcome to a nostalgic journey back to 1943! This video showcases the American cultural icon, Kate Smith, passionately singing the patriotic anthem, "God Bless America," from the classic wartime musical, "This is the Army." We've proudly remastered this golden piece of American history in High Definition (HD) for your viewing pleasure.
From the stage of history to your screens, this poignant performance will remind you of the resilience, courage, and unity that define the spirit of America. Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the time when millions of Americans found hope and inspiration in the soul-stirring vocals of Kate Smith. As her voice swells with patriotic fervor, let it invoke a sense of gratitude for the freedoms we cherish and the heroes who protect them.
"God Bless America" is more than just a song-it's a national prayer. This stirring anthem was introduced by Kate Smith during her 1938 Armistice Day radio broadcast. Written by Irving Berlin in 1918 while serving in the U.S. Army and revised by him in 1938, it has since echoed throughout countless stadiums, parades, and hearts, resonating with our enduring love for our country.
The film "This Is the Army," is a beloved musical produced during the trying times of World War II. This motion picture offered the American people a sense of hope, camaraderie, and the firm belief that united, we can overcome anything.
Our HD remastered video captures the enduring beauty and power of Kate Smith's performance. We’ve meticulously enhanced the original recording's visual and audio quality, preserving its vintage charm while ensuring a more engaging viewing experience for modern audiences.
As you watch and listen, we hope Kate Smith's rendition of "God Bless America" reminds you of our nation's rich heritage and stirs within you a profound appreciation for the courage, sacrifice, and indomitable spirit of the American people.
Please enjoy this beautiful rendition, and feel free to share it with friends, family, and fellow patriots. If you're touched by the video, don't hesitate to drop a like, comment your thoughts, and subscribe for more fascinating glimpses into America's past.
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No body can sing GOD BLESS AMERICA like Kate Smith can She's an ICON.
All versions that I know of are all compared to hers.
Amen to that!!❤
I'm in my late 60s, and sang this when was in church and the school choir all thru grade school, high school and college, and I gotta admit that I never heard the opening lines of the song till now. I'm gobsmacked! Once again I think,with a voice like that no wonder she was my grandfather's favorite singer😊
75 years old,Viet Nam,1967 1968!Tears in my eyes!
Still,the best,the song,and our country!
This is Kate’s song. Nobody else does it justice like Kate. 🇺🇸
Been a lot of versions over the years, but none like the original.
No one, indeed.
Great Kate
Irving Berlin wrote this song and didn't take a penny for it. The song is his.
@@prankgirl9112Berlin only wanted Kate to sing it.
As a senior citizen I get tears everytime I hear this song😢 she was so special .
Absolutely! I wish more people felt this way.
I thought it was just me....
Yes she was and no one could sing this song quite like her.
I'm crying right now
At least I'm not alone. For now
This is my American, l’m 81 years old and l remember Kate Smith singing this song when l was very young.We need to love our country like days gone by.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Bless your heart Mary. My Mother sat by her radio, rocking the newest baby as she listened to Kate Smith sing. Years later when my brother and I were born, the family gathered around our black and white television and watched, "This Is The Army."
Can you watch this without getting emotional? I can't.😢
No. It gets me every time, especially now..
Kinda gay ngl
Tears and full body chill every single time.
In tears! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Nope, always makes me tear
Kate Smith....a national treasure!
Shame the flyers and Comcast buried her! Calling her a racist is like calling the pope Jewish
she was hardcore racist
This is the America I grew up in. I do so miss it. God Bless America.
Me too.
It never left. Just look at the rest of the world. God bless you. :)
me too
It brings tears to my eyes when I Iisten to her sing this.
@@johnloudaros800 classic..
America has once again stood against tyranny. God Bless America!
God Bless America in the days ahead as the light of freedom returns. Trump a proud son of Scotland.
@@zorbathegreek192 Trump is ridiculously unfit for office.
AMEN! ❤❤❤
No one ever has sung this better than Kate Smith. It always brings me to tears.
I do miss the America that once was.
And will be again
I do to
No one can do justice to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" like Kate Smith.
The best Version of this song ever made/R.I.P. MS. Kate.
America needs this song and it's meaning now more than ever 💖🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
This song can't save us. We kicked God and His divine protection out of our lives.
@@karlamullins6972Oh please!🤦🏻
We have lost so much
I'm 72 years old and I will say this....the USA is only as good or bad as we make it TODAY and EVERY day from now forward. All this nostalgic talk is doing this country no good. Only continued ACTION TODAY and each day we have left to ACT against those who would destroy our constitutional laws and government!!
@@karlamullins6972True. But 2 Chronicles 7:14 can restore this nation.
My father fought in WWII, Korea, his ship was part of the Cuban Conflict and Vietnam twice. He LOVED to hear Kate Smith sing this precious song!!! He spent 30 years fighting for this country!!! RIP Dad!!
Thank You to your father for his Service 🙏
God bless your father. An American Hero!!
What great patriot your father was.
9:46 PM 12/2/2024. I bless your father for his military service.
I am 88 years old and I remember when kat the end of the movies we would all wait until Kate Smith would sing this!
Thank you from a 91 yr old Veteran of our wonderful United States Navy. GOD look over us in the next 91 years.
Thank you for your service. May God Bless you. And bring America back to God.
@@robertrhodessr3664Amen! 🙏🏻✝️❤️🤍💙🇺🇸
Thank you so much for your service ❤
THANK YOU FOR SERVING!!! ✝️ 👍🇺🇸💪🗽🕊
Thank you, sir, for your service and patriotism.
Every night we heard Kate Smith singing God Bless America. She was an inspiration.
🫡🇺🇸 This was truly one of the greatest generations of our time indeed!.
This is the best version of this song still stands the test of time even 80 years later. Well done
Can you possibly imagine! Today in such times of Hybrid Warfare directed against America- FROM INSIDE ( think democrats) AND OUT …. If a heavy American girl singer came forth and sang this all across the Country what the violence and antagonism against her and her family would be? Imagine what the media would do to her!
Sister Kate……
yes it is,
God bless America. JMJ
Grew up in the 50s and 60s and I would love to see that America again!
Wish our country was as thankful today for the freedom our military has helped us keep over the years since WWII.
The military should have more influence in civilian matters it would help society today
@@Based_locationThat would be called Martial Law...Cuba, Middle East and China ALL have a military in civilian life!
The ironic part is that our military has done nothing for American freedom since WW2. Fighting proxy wars across the globe against ideas, not even real enemies. What a joke.
@@Based_location NO! Our military fought to keep those who want to rule through authority rather than democracy from gaining power over governments in Europe and out of our country as well. This is its Constitutional role and we must be thankful every day that it is understood by them.
i couldn't agree with you more somehow thanks to the woke idiots out there people don't don't appreciate the freedom they have in our great county. i love this country and wish everyone loved it as much as i do and it sounds like you do as well
Kate knocks it out of the park!!! We, ALL of us, need to come together to save this nation as Kate so aptly and poignantly points our minds and hearts to. I say to ALL us ITS NOT TOO LATE! LETS GET TOGETHER WITH G.O.D AS OUR LEADER!!!
😂😂😂Just what we need……maybe there would be a new understanding of what D-day was all about. Sacrifice to make today -ossible
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Amen.
This song puts pride in everyone's heart. God Bless America 🇺🇸
Not anyone in this awful tyrannical Regime that's attacking American freedom with illegal censorship, orders (aka mandates) & gun laws that infringe constitutional laws.
every yt. That's all
Oh, do I remember Kate Smith singing God Bless America. I was born in 1942 and we need to hear this and The Battle Hyhm of the Republic every single day. GOD BLESS AMERICA ❤
it gives me chills running thru my spine.... Kate Smith had such a special voice. God Bless America, the land that I love.
She was the only one who could sing God bless America so beautiful rest in peace 🕊️ Kate Smith
No one can even come close to the way she sang that song. Beautiful ❤
Her version is the best. It always gives me chills.
Every once in a while, I really need a fix of Kate Smith. You are timeless miss Kate.
Can you possibly imagine! Today in such times of Hybrid Warfare directed against America- FROM INSIDE ( think democrats) AND OUT …. If a heavy American girl singer came forth and sang this all across the Country what the violence and antagonism against her and her family would be? Imagine what the media would do to her!
Sister Kate……
There is no better interpretation of God Bless America than Kate Smith's the singer who introduced it to the world. ❤😊
I think Florence Henderson does a real good job.
A true American icon. Rest in peace Ms. Smith
I'm Canadian. A military veteran. I have loved America and Americans ever since I can remember. I pray for America every day. O to God that He would come back to our nations again. Something terrible has happened and only God can right it. America bless God! Canada bless God!. If enough of us pray, He will come back.
amen, brother!
As an American, thank you! Praying for Canada too! ❤🍁
What a loving neighbor you are and thank you for your prayers we sure need it today for both countries United States and Canada
Yes...something terrible has been growing quietly and unknown in the shadows for sixty years now. Red, murderous, mindless Marxism has made its bid to destroy the western world. People, our own citizens and foreign influencers who have been disguised as mild mannered well meaning socialists; just to the left of center, have made their grasp for power. Covid was an intentional attack, millions of American people have died. Murderous unruly mobs, the paid agents of our enemies stalk the land and thousands of businesses have been burnt but very little gets into the media because the network of traitors is vast. The next 10 to 15 years will decide....be strong people..
Thank you for what you said !!! You are right only God can save us ❤
1943: Kate had originally recorded this for Victor in 1939. Irving Berlin retooled it for the movie and the Warner studio orchestra and chorus backed her so well. America and the Allies needed this after taking a shellacking in the first year of the war. But the tide was about to turn, and morale-boosters like this one helped the Allies to eventual victory.
no that was the russians
@@mahzorimipod wdym? you mean the American Lend-Lease?
@@yeaz2779 less than 10% of russian war material. cope harder ofay
@mahzorimipod "I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war. The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war." -Stalin
@@EmisoraRadioPatio fake quote
I am English but it’s been America that stood by my people not anyone else even the empire is dead but the American people have fought for to protect us from all kinds of evils so God bless America always gives me a tear in my eye they helped save the world and people should remember that
I’m English too
Yes we are bound together by nationality and united purpose - god bless both countries
Proud of my American GI father and my RAF mother. God Bless America and God Save the King!
@@DylanLeaharisson good luck to you m
My GI dad was stationed in Scotland before taking part in the Normandy invasion. I have great respect for the British, who held out against Germany alone for so long. I doubt most Americans realize what we owe to Great Britain for holding firm.
I'm sitting here crying - my dad told me years ago when he was in the service & all guys heard this song - would just imagine she must be a "very beautiful lady" - since no TV on ships - She is indeed a beautiful lady - Thank You Ms. Kate Smith for wonderful memories .. . . . . RIP
Oh, Father, continue to advance your church to rescue our nation. Thank you for this blessed, free country, but may it remain a stronghold for Liberty! 🗽✝️😊
❤
My father and uncles gave this song to me. They were the Greatest Generation!
Mom of 2 Marines.
God Bless America!
No matter when or how I hear Kate sing I get goosebumps!
I am only 10 years old and I love old patriotic music
Then the is hope for America with young people like you
Good lad
Hopefully , we have a young man like ur self as president , if anyone of this generation was to run , always remember your Roots and what made u love listening too old patriotic music
Well said young man….America needs more young men like you more than ever….Best Wishes from.England.
This makes me so happy! It always warms my heart when younger generations hear the golden oldies and love them!
My daddy was in the Army Air Corps during WWII so it chokes me up when I see the planes flying over the young men in the hangars. It reminds me of daddy.
My daddy was too 💙
Me too
Dad and Mom both WWII
@@melvasu1163 🙂 🕯 🇺🇸
My Dad was in the Navy. Wonderful how the country united. May God bring back that America. And bring a revival of Christian faith.
The brilliant Kate Smith.
No one can come close to her singing this song.
Lauren Hart sings this with recorded parts of Kate Smith. The good luck charm of the Philadelphia Flyers.
God, family, country. They were paramount during the war. Today they are a faded memory. The greatest generation ever. One we will never see again. Truly sad. I pray God's mercy and cry each time Kate Smith sings this song. Ah the good ole days. Gone but not forgotten. GOD BLESS AMERICA! She needs it now more than ever!!
When "the greatest generation" came home from war, they no longer had time for church and God. Hippies came from them and people have progressively left God out and gotten worse. Until they come back, there is no hope for help.
What happens when you leave GOD out!
Omg. I started to cry. Very emotional song love the way Kate Smith belts out that song!!!!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Can you possibly imagine! Today in such times of Hybrid Warfare directed against America- FROM INSIDE ( think democrats) AND OUT …. If a heavy American girl singer came forth and sang this all across the Country what the violence and antagonism against her and her family would be? Imagine what the media would do to her!
Sister Kate……
This makes me remember my 2 friends from my time in the marines
Gone but not forgotten! Semper fi! ❤
Thank you…
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Simplify brother from a fellow marine
Thank you all for your service 🙏
It reminds me of all the people that gave their lives for our God and country. I can never stop loving either one of them. I always keep praying that He'll deliver us all from evil. It's just so hard to be patient, even when we remind ourselves that we must be. God is still here. He never left. Jesus said it himself, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." This song is more than a solumn prayer. It should serve as a reminder that God still stands with his children in America and beyond. Help of the helpless, He who changes not, through cloud and sunshine, in life and in death. I hear this song and suddenly I feel humbled, happy, sad yet in the end, revigorated. A reminder that no matter how far we have fallen, there's still work to be done in His name. He's still here. That, to me, is enough to pick us all back up. Thank you for your service to our country as well as those of your two friends. The Lord Bless you and keep you all sir. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
When my Granparents came to America my Bubba eventually she became an American citizen.
Every time I hear God Bless America I cry…
My Bubba always asked me to sing her favorite song “God Bless America”
My Grandparents escaped Communism and became American Citizens. My Grandfather said “we are no longer Slovak, we are American!”
That's awesome! Welcome! That was special of you to sing for her!
Me too. It reminds me of when they used to play it in our school.
@@rachelmorey7102 -Congratulations and welcome! So glad you escaped!
I was 5yrs old, my father was overseas and i remember her singing this on the radio - I never forgot it when I hear it , I always remember That little boy
We need this love of country so badly 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
we need the love of God even more
@@kathyern861 trump needs to be gone from public life
@@142chrisjake trump is evil
@@142chrisjake I think I've heard that before. And I've also heard that if Trump gets in, we're done for.
We need new virtuous politicians. Our prayers and our doing the right thing and God will appeased.
This is not so much a look back but a tug at the heart of what was true then is just as true today.
1:43 As a child, I remember watching the Kate Smith show on TV. She always sang this song. It stirred my heart then, as it does now.
We have been the greatest nation in history. Give God thanks
One of my favorite songs since I was a child in the 1950's, I love to hear Kate Smith sing it!!
Im 89 and getting tears.I remember her and this song from when I was a kid.Thank you Kate
I am 90
I watch this video quite a lot. I especially like the coda, brief but spine-tingling. I'm almost 80. Today is Apr. 15, 2024, USA
It does bring tears to my eyes. 🙏🇺🇸
She always ended her radio show saying “If you don’t write, you’re wrong”
Yes..God bless America..! Beautiful song..no one sings it like Kate Smith..I still love my America..God have Mercy on America..She needs God..!!
That note that Kate hits at the end was marvelously executed! Truly a world class singer!
I got goosebumps. I was born in 1997 and miss when loving your country wasn’t a crime.
lmfao. Check yourself as loving our country isn't close to being a crime. Signed, a liberal.
Vote Trump 2024 & it won't be " bad" celebrating our Country.
There aren't that many songs that bring tears to my eyes. This is one of them. NOBODY sings it as well as Kate Smith.
Beautiful composition presented by the best lady to send the message of strength, respect, and love for God and country. God bless the USA 🇺🇸
Untrue, religions are evil FOREIGN psychotic mass murderous mental illness and fuel all the unneeded wars... be glad when they finally all fade away... USA free of their evil... -from a 75 year old war veteran
I love the way Kate Smith sings God Bless America. Just beautiful. Proud to be an American.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
My grandmother introduced me to Kate Smith and Lily Pons. I loved their singing.
American military personnel around the world actually cried on the radio when they actually heard her voice singing God Bless America. In 1968 on Rowan and Martin Laugh In, the guy Dan Rowan told her on the show can she actually sing God Help America.
Wow I learned a new thing today
Yes, at that time we needed help getting out of EvilJFK's unneeded War on Vietnam...
My dad played Kate Smith singing this song on his record player all the time in the 50's and 60's. May they both rest in peace. Bonnie in Indianapolis ❤
God bless your homeland America from the U.K.
They should play this to all politicians- let them remember what America used to be, and let’s not forget schools.
Special song. Special Kate, special time
I've forgotten a lot of what I learned in elementary school... but perfectly remembered the lyrics of this, and to -> God Bless America... America the Beautiful... My Country Tis of Thee... and both parts of the Star Spangled Banner. I don't know if schools even teach these anymore. Personally, I don't think you could find 1 out of 20 members of Congress who know the words to even ONE... I'd bet that neither Presidential candidates know any of the lyrics to these.
Especially the schools. The children are hearing way too much garbage and hate.
I came o the US in 1965. After 14 years went back to visit the family. Loved spending time there. But things had changed.
When l got back on the airplane "God bless America" was on the intercome. It was all l could do not start crying.
I still visit the old country.
But America is home.
My grandmother resembled Kate Smith and had a beautiful voice like her. God Bless America has always been my favorite patriotic song. ❤️🤍💙
Great song and yes God Bless America forever
BEST VERSION. Sings it straight up...no modern twists and turns.
@stephens2... agree.
That’s why she’s the best to ever do it!
As a brit this is the equivalent to land of hope and glory 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸
We need to pray for our country. I have and will continue to do so. God Bless America.
Great patriotic song of America sung by Kate Smith!!!
My mom and her family use to listen to Kate Smith on the radio back in the 30s or forties. What a wonderful voice.
Fun fact: the Philadelphia Flyers NHL team actually had Kate Smith sing God Bless America at some of the most important games in the season for a few years. The reason they did this was because almost every time that she sang, they won so they considered her singing a good luck charm. They even had her sing in the Stanley Cup Finals in 1974 and 1975, both of which the Flyers would win
The Broad Street Bullies. Sixth grade, most of us cut school to go to the celebration on Broad Street. Such fun memories.
And the Flyers ended up "honoring" her memory by removing the statue dedicated to her.
So bad they took her statue down. Screw the flyers
The statue was taken down by different team owners (Comcast/NBC). I'm glad I experienced the best of times and have the happy memories of the '74 team.
Should be The National Athem
My mother loved to hear Kate Smith sing. This is a beautiful song for her to sing. I hope my mom can hear her.
Kate Smith had such a beautiful voice!!!! She performs this song to perfection!
There will always be something so perfect about her voice, especially when singing this song. God bless America 🇺🇸
No one can sing this like Kate Smith
Having just watched the first presidential debate, this is such a poignant reminder of how far we’ve gone off the rails. God have mercy on us.
Biden was alive when this song was sang
Amen!!
I am frightened for our country, aren't you? Let us pray.
Amen, indeed.
Amen ❤
Love the way she sings this song
Born in the late 70s, and I have never watched this before. I have heard her song though. We sang this song in school in the 80s. Culture and music always shifts and changes with time, but the lyrics and the heart behind them always remain the same. Patriotism is alive and well in the USA, it's just less broadcasted on TV/media. God Bless all my Grandparents and American Ancestors, our land and every Soul in every State of the USA. Prayers needed. There is nothing more powerful than Christian prayer! United we Stand! Christ is King of our Nation!
The most gut wrenching rendition of GOD BLESS AMERICA…..if you don’t get emotional over this song, you don’t LOVE AMERICA. MOST MILITARY VETS Have a “gut check” with her singing this song, I LOVE IT!
God Bless America and God bless Kate Smith!!!! ♥️
7-3-23. 8:45 pm. Happy 4th of July America, and especially to all of the Heroes out there, here and gone, who Loved our Flag and many who lost their lives for it, and for 'our' Freedom. And.. for those who remember the very Best of Our America. 🇺🇸 ❤️
Independence Day
A solemn prayer it is, Kate! Well sung. Thank you for your everlasting contribution.
I would come home from grammar school and listen to Kate Smith sing this song as she closed the "Kate Smith Hour" in the early 1950's. Love kt still
Thank you Irving Berlin for this wonderful song, thank you Kate for singing it with such passion!
Beautiful !!
Thank you Miss Kate…
this is the original version, with the original opening verse that you never hear anymore,,, it makes the song so much better
The most inspirational rendition of this song I've ever heard. Hate to admit it but, it sometimes brings a tear to my eye.
Loved this song and Kate Smith since I was a young girl.
Once upon a time in the late, once great, United States. R.I.P.
Who is also here to celebrate the victory of PRESIDENT TRUMP with the best version of an all-american patriotic song? I have tears in my eyes when I hear it…and I am not even AMERICAN❤️! Yet.
Me! And I'm Canadian. So happy for my neighbors! Cheers 🥳🥂 Trump 2024
@@44Paws Cheers mate🥂now you have to get rid of that communist dictator Trudeau!
I'm almost 60 I remember This song from the Reagan administration !!!!!!!
@@44PawsThank You !!!!!!!😂
@@josephshulman6666 As a child I was at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin when President Reagan spoke the famous „Mr. Gorbachev open this gate“. I was less than 150 ft. away.
our soldiers, our boys and girls, fought to keep our country free. i remember that every day. god bless america.
Absolutely beautiful. I am singing along with you Kate, all the way from Australia in the year 2024.
We have sent all of our children off to war. The ravaged children came home with scars that can never heal. GOD bless our veterans! Amen
A glimpse of an earlier America that is long gone. RIP Kate Smith.
We definitely need God To Bless this wonderful nation that we were lucky to have been born in..now more than ever we need God's blessing and President Trump...please God to not forsake us...
🌹I previously meant to add to my comment: I found this video, quite unexpectedly, with my Mother (soon to be 100 years young & very well loved) sitting beside me. As she watched very attentively, tears began to stream down her beautiful face, for Kate Smith had always been a favorite entertainer, in her life. I come from a long line, of military ancestors and I was taught to be proud and respectful, of each and every one of them and to respect and love our flag🦅 ❤🤍💙GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS🙏
A very patriotic song 🎶