It was while writing songs for that show that he wrote the first version of “God Bless America.” Perhaps sensing this song was meant for other purposes, and elected to not use it in the show.

Dion soulfully sings “God Bless America,” though she is Canadian. When singer Marc Anthony performed the song at the 2013 baseball All-Star Game, racists attacked his performance, tweeting ...

As far as patriotic songs go, "God Bless the USA" is right up there with the best and most well-known of them all. As Lee Greenwood tells The Boot, he'd wanted to write such a song for quite some ...

Major League Baseball has encouraged teams to play "God Bless America" ever since a San Diego Padres official came up with the idea to use the song during the seventh-inning stretch to acknowledge ...

The New York Yankees have decided to stop playing Kate Smith's rendition of "God Bless America" after learning of her history of racist song lyrics, the New York Daily News reported on Thursday ...

Despite recent controversy over the racist lyrics in some of Kate Smith’s 1930s-era recordings, the mayor of a New Jersey beach town says his city will continue to play her rendition of “God ...