Feeling blue? Watch Kate Smith sing "God Bless America" for the first time on radio.
 

See Kate Smith sing "God Bless America"

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.