He intended to use it in the 1918 show "Yip Yip Yaphank," but it was cut.
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God Bless America was originally written by Irving Berlin in 1918, during the First World War. He wrote it for an army camp show at Camp Yaphank on Long Island, where he was stationed. The song was rejected by the show's producers, so Berlin filed it away in a trunk of manuscripts, where it was almost forgotten. In 1938, Kate Smith was America's most popular female singer. Her weekly radio program attracted a large audience. Her producer asked Berlin to write a patriotic song for Kate Smith to sing, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of the First World War (November 11, 1918). Berlin remembered the song he had written twenty years earlier, retrieved it out of the trunk, and made a few minor improvements to it. Kate Smith sang God Bless America on her radio program for the first time on Thursday, November 10, 1938. The switchboard was jammed by enthusiastic callers and became an instant hit. On March 21, 1939, Kate Smith recorded God Bless America. That original recording has been reissued many times since. The royalties from the song all go to the Boy and Girl Scouts of America through the God Bless America Foundation, established by Irving Berlin in 1940. The song has been recorded by a few other artists, but none came close to Kate Smith's rendition. For several years, it was played prior to the start of home games of hockey's Philadelphia Flyers, in place of the National Anthem. (The above information was obtained from The Kate Smith Commemorative Society.)
Irving Berlin (1888-1989) wrote popular music and Broadway show tunes. From Alexander's Rag Time Bandwritten in 1911, God Bless America in 1918, Puttin' on the Ritz in 1930, Easter Parade in 1933, White Christmas in 1942, There's No Business Like Show Business in 1946, Steppin' Out With My Baby in 1948, through the 1950 show Call Me Madam with Ethel Merman. He wrote the scores for 19 Broadway shows and 18 Hollywood films. He wrote hundreds of popular songs sung by all the greats of the first half of the twentieth century and many more since then.
It remains a mystery where and when and how long it took Irving Berlin to write White Christmas because Mr Berlin gave many different accounts. According to Wikipedia he may have written it in 1940 while pool side at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix Arizona. Weight is added to this story by a call he is said to have placed to his secretary. He said "grab a pen and take down this song. Its the best song I've ever written-heck its the best song anybody has ever written." Mr Berlin often stayed up all night writing but maybe he did write it pool side in a short period of time.
White Christmas was written by Irving Berlin. He also wrote such songs as "God Bless America", Alexander's Ragtime Band", and "There's no business like show business" He died in 1989 at the age of 101. I stole this answer from "Wiki User" on the question "Who wrote White Christmas", they had some interesting information.
The Song God Bless America was written by Irving Berlin and was "shelved" for 20 years. Kate Jackson asked Berlin for a song to sing and he gave it to her with the understanding he did not want money for the song. God helped him write it. He asked that the proceeds of the song go to the Boy Scouts of America.
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1933
God Bless America was originally written by Irving Berlin in 1918, during the First World War. He wrote it for an army camp show at Camp Yaphank on Long Island, where he was stationed. The song was rejected by the show's producers, so Berlin filed it away in a trunk of manuscripts, where it was almost forgotten. In 1938, Kate Smith was America's most popular female singer. Her weekly radio program attracted a large audience. Her producer asked Berlin to write a patriotic song for Kate Smith to sing, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of the First World War (November 11, 1918). Berlin remembered the song he had written twenty years earlier, retrieved it out of the trunk, and made a few minor improvements to it. Kate Smith sang God Bless America on her radio program for the first time on Thursday, November 10, 1938. The switchboard was jammed by enthusiastic callers and became an instant hit. On March 21, 1939, Kate Smith recorded God Bless America. That original recording has been reissued many times since. The royalties from the song all go to the Boy and Girl Scouts of America through the God Bless America Foundation, established by Irving Berlin in 1940. The song has been recorded by a few other artists, but none came close to Kate Smith's rendition. For several years, it was played prior to the start of home games of hockey's Philadelphia Flyers, in place of the National Anthem. (The above information was obtained from The Kate Smith Commemorative Society.)
Irving Berlin (1888-1989) wrote popular music and Broadway show tunes. From Alexander's Rag Time Bandwritten in 1911, God Bless America in 1918, Puttin' on the Ritz in 1930, Easter Parade in 1933, White Christmas in 1942, There's No Business Like Show Business in 1946, Steppin' Out With My Baby in 1948, through the 1950 show Call Me Madam with Ethel Merman. He wrote the scores for 19 Broadway shows and 18 Hollywood films. He wrote hundreds of popular songs sung by all the greats of the first half of the twentieth century and many more since then.
Yes, Annie Get Your Gun
It appears in "Easter Parade." I don't know if it was written specifically for that movie.
It remains a mystery where and when and how long it took Irving Berlin to write White Christmas because Mr Berlin gave many different accounts. According to Wikipedia he may have written it in 1940 while pool side at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix Arizona. Weight is added to this story by a call he is said to have placed to his secretary. He said "grab a pen and take down this song. Its the best song I've ever written-heck its the best song anybody has ever written." Mr Berlin often stayed up all night writing but maybe he did write it pool side in a short period of time.
He never gave an answer to what inspired him to write the classic Christmas song. Irving Berlin was often away from home and family in the East. In 1937 a producer friend sent him a short video of his family waving to him from in front of the family home on a snowy winter day. That could have triggered an idea. He is also said to have possibly been influenced by Robert Frost's poem Stopping by Woods On A Snowy Evening or by Stephen Foster's Home Songs.
It is a song written in the World War II time period. Irving Berlin wrote the song for the American Red Cross Association because of all of their hard work nursing the wounded soldiers in the war.
You can write "Бог благословит тебя" in Russian, which translates to "God bless you."