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George Formby - It's In The Air

George Formby - It's In The Air Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Golden Greats
Released: 1938

It's In The Air Lyrics

It's In The Air

Written by Harry Parr-Davies, the title track of this George Formby film was recorded by George on the Regal Zonophone label July 17, 1938. According to Desmond Carrington in a May 2013 broadcast of his programme The Music Goes Round, it was extremely popular with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, a fact that is hardly surprising.

Kate Smith - God Bless America

Kate Smith - God Bless America Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: The Best Of Kate Smith
Released: 1938

God Bless America Lyrics

God Bless America, land that I love
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with the light from above

From the mountains to the prairies
To the oceans white with foam
God bless America, my home sweet home

From the mountains to the prairies
To the oceans white with foam
God bless America, my home sweet home
God bless America, my home sweet home

Writer/s: IRVING BERLIN
Publisher: IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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God Bless America

Irving Berlin wrote this in 1918 for the musical Yip, Yip, Yaphank. After writing it, Berlin felt it didn't fit the tone of the musical, which was a comedy, and decided not to use it. In 1938, with war looming in Europe, Berlin updated the lyrics for the purpose of writing a "peace" song.

Smith introduced this on her radio show on Armistice Day in 1938 (November 11). It was an immediate hit.

Berlin donated the royalties from this song, which were considerable, to the Boy and Girl Scouts of America. He established the God Bless America Fund for this purpose.

Berlin was not born in America. His family immigrated from Siberia when he was 5.

A few years after this song was released, Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land Is Your Land" as a parody.

Big Bill Broonzy - Just A Dream

Big Bill Broonzy - Just A Dream Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Black, Brown & White
Released: 1938

Just A Dream Lyrics

Just A Dream Song Chart

This Broonzy composition has no connection with later songs recorded by Carrie Underwood or Nelly; it is also sometimes given an extended title "Just A Dream I Had On My Mind" after its opening.

According to a BBC documentary about Broonzy that was first screened in December 2013, the legendary bluesman wrote this song especially for the From Spirituals To Swing concerts of December 1938. Among other things, this dream sees him meeting the President at the White House, something that might have been considered extraordinary or even unthinkable for a black blues musician at that time.

What was not so unthinkable was the line in which he dreams about having ten children all looking like him because Broonzy was a notorious womanizer, though it was probably a combination of alcohol and tobacco rather than women that killed him twenty years later. (thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England)