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...only is the idea itself in rather poor taste, but also the songs themselves, which can best be described in the language of their composers, as "strictly from hunger." In other words, they stink, and no two ways about it. That includes everything, from God Bless America, I Am An American, He's My Uncle, (Sam--how did you guess?), right down (and I do mean down) to Ballad For Americans, the latter designed to appeal to those intellectuals still hanging on to the battered remains of a party line. (Although I'll qualify this by saying that Paul Robeson...
...President will be a rather dull one as far as music is concerned, because ASCAP has possession of all of Sousa's best marching songs. CBS and NBC are building soundproof broadcasting units along Pennsylvania Avenue in order to prevent any music from going out over the air. God Bless America, the new national anthem, will not be heard at all until this argument is settled...
...bless our dear fatherland." Ex-President Dr. Eduard Benes of Czecho-Slovakia: "Germany is defeated...
Beginning this week, God Bless America will be barred from the mikes of the networks, and swingsters will have to palpitate to something other than the St. Louis Blues. The sentimental will listen in vain for confections like The End of a Perfect Day, and Irish tenors will have to croon something besides Macushla and Mother Machree. For Protestants there will...
...Bless America; Shout, I Am an American; He's My Uncle. †Copyright 1940 by Chappell & Co. Inc., New York City...