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On the Run Again Kate Smith

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American contralto (1907–1986)

Kate Smith
Smith in 1943

Smith in 1943
Groundwork information
Birth proper name Kathryn Elizabeth Smith
Born (1907-05-01)May one, 1907
Greenville, Virginia, U.S.
Died June 17, 1986(1986-06-17) (aged 79)
Raleigh, North Carolina, U.South.
Occupation(s) Vocalist
Instruments Vocals
Years active 1926–1976
Labels RCA Victor
Savoy Records

Musical creative person

Kathryn Elizabeth Smith (May ane, 1907 – June 17, 1986), known professionally as Kate Smith, was an American contralto.[i] [2] [3] [4] Referred to every bit The First Lady of Radio, Smith is well known for her renditions of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" & "When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain". In more recent times, she has also became associated with controversial songs containing racially insensitive themes and undertones. She had a radio, television receiver, and recording career spanning v decades, which reached its pinnacle in the 1940s. She became known every bit The Songbird of the South because of her tremendous popularity during World War II.

Early life [edit]

She was born on May one, 1907, in Greenville, Virginia, to Charlotte 'Lottie' Yarnell (née Hanby) and William Herman Smith, growing up in Washington, D.C.[5] Her father owned the Capitol News Company, distributing newspapers and magazines in the greater D.C. expanse.[vi] She was the youngest of 3 daughters, the middle kid dying in infancy. She failed to talk until she was four years old,[half-dozen] but a yr later she was singing at church social events. By the time she was viii, she was singing for the troops at Army camps in the Washington area during World War I. Smith never had a singing lesson in her life and possessed a 'rich range' of ii and a one-half octaves. Her earliest performances were during amateur nights at vaudeville theaters in D.C.

Her earliest musical influences were her parents: her male parent sang in the choir at the Catholic church; her mother played piano at the Presbyterian church. She attended Business High School in D.C. (at present Theodore Roosevelt Loftier School), likely graduating in 1924. Alarmed by his daughter'south axiomatic penchant for the stage, her begetter sent her to the George Washington University School for Nursing where she attended classes for nine months between 1924 and 1925, withdrawing to pursue a career in evidence business concern.[seven]

She got herself on the nib at Keith'south Theater in Boston as a vocalizer. Heading the bill was the thespian and producer Eddie Dowling, who recruited the immature singer for a revue he was preparing. It was called Honeymoon Lane, and it opened in Atlantic City, New Jersey on August 29, 1926. A calendar month later, information technology moved to Broadway.

An indelicate review in The New York Times on October 31, 1926, under the heading "A Sophie Tucker Rival", said: "A 19-year-former daughter, weighing in the immediate neighborhood of 200 pounds, is 1 of the discoveries of the season for those whose interests run to syncopators and singers of what in the varieties and nightclubs are known equally 'hot' songs. Kate Smith is the newcomer's not uncommon name."

When Honeymoon Lane closed, Smith had difficulty finding work in New York, and then she returned to Washington, D.C. where she appeared sporadically in vaudeville.[6] Smith joined the route visitor of Vincent Youmans' Striking the Deck, where she won acclaim singing "Hallelujah!" as a mammy in blackface.[viii] Dorsum in New York City, she took the visitor lead in George White's Flying High, which opened at the whites only Hurtig & Seamon's New Burlesque Theater (which afterwards became the Apollo Theater) on March 3, 1930, and ran for 122 performances. As Pansy Sparks, Smith'southward role was to be the butt of Bert Lahr's often cruel jibes about her girth. She said subsequently that she often wept with humiliation in her dressing room later the show.

Career [edit]

Smith on 1934 cover of Radio Mirror

During Honeymoon Lane 'southward run in New York, Smith made her beginning phonograph recordings, consisting of songs from that show.[half dozen] The first sessions were for Victor simply none were issued.[6] Her first issued recordings, from an October 28, 1926, session, appeared on the Columbia label.[6] She made a few more than records for Columbia through May 1927.[9] In 1929 through 1931 she again returned to Columbia's studios, this time appearing for the budget labels Harmony, Diva and Velvet Tone nether a pseudonym.[10] These commercially successful records were ofttimes sung in the fashion of Ethel Waters and Ruth Etting, although other were more alike to the early crooning fashion of Bing Crosby and Russ Columbo.[eleven]

Her musical career took a huge bound in 1930 when Columbia Records A&R executive Ted Collins took an interest as a issue of her Hit the Deck performances.[half dozen] Collins would go her longtime manager in 50–50 partnership. Smith had get self-conscious regarding her weight, in no small part because of the on- and off-phase mocking she received from co-star Bert Lahr.[6] She later on credited Collins with helping her overcome her self-consciousness, writing, "Ted Collins was the offset human being who regarded me as a vocalizer, and didn't even seem to notice that I was a big girl."[12] She noted, "I'm big, and I sing, and male child, when I sing, I sing all over!"[12]

Collins put Smith on radio in 1931. That twelvemonth, she performed "Dream a Lilliputian Dream of Me". Her biggest hits were "River, Stay 'Way from My Door" (1931), "The Woodpecker Song" (1940), "The White Cliffs of Dover" (1942), "Rose O'Day" (1941), "The Last Time I Saw Paris" (1940), "I Don't Want to Walk Without You" (1942), "There Goes That Song Once more" (1944), "Seems Like Onetime Times" (1946), and "Now Is the Hour" (1947). "Rose O'Day" sold over ane meg copies, her first to achieve this feat, and was awarded a gilt disc by the RIAA.[13] Her theme song was "When the Moon Comes over the Mountain"; she had helped write the lyrics. Smith greeted her audition with "Hello, everybody!" and signed off with "Thanks for listenin'."

In 1932, Smith appeared in Hello, Everybody!, with co-stars Randolph Scott and Emerge Blane, and in the 1943 wartime movie This Is the Regular army, she sang "God Bless America", which became her signature song.

Radio [edit]

The Aldriches and Kate Smith as the characters premiered on her radio plan in September 1938.

Smith was a major star of radio, usually backed by Jack Miller's Orchestra. She began with her twice-a-calendar week NBC series, Kate Smith Sings (quickly expanded to six shows a week), followed past a series of shows for CBS: Kate Smith and Her Swanee Music (1931–33), sponsored past La Palina Cigars; The Kate Smith Matinee (1934–35); The Kate Smith New Star Revue (1934–35); Kate Smith's Coffee Time (1935–36), sponsored past A&P; and The Kate Smith A&P Bandwagon (1936–37).[fourteen]

The Kate Smith 60 minutes was a leading radio diversity bear witness, offer comedy, music, and drama with appearances by top personalities of films and theater for eight years (1937–1945). The show's resident comics, Abbott and Costello and Henny Youngman, introduced their one-act to a nationwide radio audition aboard her testify, while a series of sketches based on the Broadway production of the same proper noun led to The Aldrich Family unit as a dissever hit series in 1940.

Smith also fabricated a dramatic appearance, starring in "Little Johnny Appleseed" on Silver Theater on May 14, 1944.[15]

Smith's figure was not the just target of satire. Her cheery radio sign-on was parodied by comedian Henry Morgan when he launched his own show in 1942: "Skillful evening, anybody, here'south Morgan," which became his sign-on. Morgan recalled in his memoir Here'south Morgan, that Smith'southward sign-on struck him as condescending: "I, on the other hand, was grateful if anybody was listening."

Smith connected on the Mutual Dissemination Organization, CBS, ABC, and NBC, presenting both music and talk shows on radio until 1960.

Tv set [edit]

Ted Collins and Smith on her television show, 1953

Smith starred in two concurrent telly programs in the early on 1950s The Kate Smith 60 minutes on NBC Television from 1950 through 1954, hosting until 1953 in the late afternoon hr of 4:00 pm ET. James Dean and Audrey Hepburn fabricated early interim appearances on the testify. Smith also starred in the weekly The Kate Smith Evening Hour which included a rare U.s. TV appearance by Josephine Baker as well as the only major filmed footage of Hank Williams. Smith continued on the Mutual Broadcasting Arrangement, CBS, ABC, and NBC, presenting both music and talk shows on radio until 1960.

From January 25 to July xviii, 1960, Smith hosted The Kate Smith Testify, a variety program on the CBS Television Monday evening schedule.[16] On Oct 2, 1966, Smith performed on the British television show, Sunday Night at the London Palladium.[13]

Considering of her popularity, her face was a mutual sight in print advertisements of the twenty-four hour period. Over the years, she acted as a commercial spokeswoman for numerous companies such as Studebaker, Pullman, Diamond Crystal Salt, and Jell-O.

World State of war 2 [edit]

Smith "stirred patriotic fervor" during Earth State of war II[17] and contributed to the sale of over $600 million (equivalent to $x.6 billion in 2020) of war bonds during a series of marathon broadcasts. No other show-business star came near her every bit revenue producer of War Bonds to finance the United States' war effort.[eighteen]

Recordings [edit]

Smith recorded dozens of successful albums and songs during the 1930s and 1940s. She recorded sporadically during the 1950s but in 1963 signed a contract with RCA Victor to record a number of successful albums, including several that charted on the Billboard Hot 200 chart aslope the major rock stars of the era, usually with Smith, and so well into her fifties, the oldest performer on the charts. In 1967 she had her first new hit record in many years when "Anyone Tin Motion A Mountain" peaked at #30 on Billboard 'southward Easy Listening Hits chart in July 1967. This record was her only 1960s single release to be successful. In 1974, Smith returned to Billboard 'due south Easy Listening chart when "Smiling, Smile, Smile", a ane-shot unmarried release (and her last recording) for Atlantic Records, peaked at #42 in June 1974.

Best-selling singles [edit]

Tape albums [edit]

(US nautical chart positions courtesy Billboard mag).

  • 1949 Songs of Erin (10", Album), Columbia Records
  • 1954 Kate Smith, Capitol Records
  • 1958 The Fabulous Kate, Kapp Records
  • 1958 Rip Van Winkle / Johnny Appleseed (with Lionel Barrymore), Total Allegiance Lion Records
  • 1959 Christmas with The Peachy Kate, Mayfair Records
  • 1960 Kate Smith Sings God Bless America, Tops Records
  • 1963 Kate Smith at Carnegie Hall, RCA Victor Records #83 US
  • 1964 The Sweetest Sounds of Kate Smith, RCA Victor Records #145 US
  • 1965 A Bear upon of Magic, RCA Victor Records
  • 1965 How Cracking Grand Art, RCA Victor Records #36 US
  • 1966 Today, RCA Victor Records #148 US
  • 1966 The Glorious Vocalisation of Kate Smith, Pickwick Records
  • 1966 The Kate Smith Anniversary Album, RCA Victor Records #130 United states
  • 1966 The Kate Smith Christmas Album, RCA Victor Records
  • 1967 Just a Closer Walk with Thee, RCA Victor Records
  • 1967 Here & At present, RCA Victor Records
  • 1967 Something Special, RCA Victor Records
  • 1968 May God Be with You, RCA Victor Records
  • 1968 America'south Favorites (with Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops, RCA Victor Carmine Seal
  • 1968 The All-time of Kate Smith, RCA Victor Records
  • 1968 The One and Simply, Kapp Records
  • 1969 Songs of the Now Generation, RCA Victor Records
  • 1970 The Best of Kate Smith Sacred, RCA Victor Records
  • 1970 God Bless America & Other Great American Songs, Happy Fourth dimension Records
  • 1970 The Fabled Kate Smith, RCA Camden
  • 1974 God Bless America, Sunbeam Records
  • 1976 Kate Smith Sings America's Favorites, RCA Special Products
  • 1978 A Legendary Performer, RCA Records

Significance in professional sports [edit]

When the Philadelphia Flyers ice hockey team played Smith'due south rendition of "God Bless America" before their game on Dec xi, 1969, an unusual function of her career began. The Flyers' public address announcer had noticed that people would not pay attention or would prove disdain for the "Star-Spangled Banner" played earlier games, due to the tensions caused by the Vietnam War, and he decided to use Smith'southward rendition of "God Bless America" instead. The crowd responded more than favorably to this recording. Later the Flyers won the game, it was decided by the team that the song would be used as an alternative to the "Star-Spangled Banner", but merely for certain of import games.

At the Flyers' home opener against the Toronto Maple Leafs on October xi, 1973, Smith made a surprise advent to perform the song in person and received a tremendous reception. The Flyers won that game by a 2–0 score. She again performed the song at the Spectrum in front end of a capacity crowd of 17,007 fans before game six of the Stanley Cup Finals on May nineteen, 1974, against the Boston Bruins. Before this game, Smith had a "Flyer Tape" of 36–iii–1 (win-loss-tie). Subsequently her performance, in keeping with the Flyers' reputation of "The Broad Street Bullies", Smith mimicked a knockout punch. Boston's defenseman Bobby Orr and middle Phil Esposito infamously tried to jinx the Flyers' "good luck charm" by shaking her paw after her functioning. All the same, the Flyers won their offset of two back-to-back Stanley Cups, winning that playoff serial confronting the Boston Bruins four games to two, with goaltender Bernie Parent shutting the Bruins out 1–0 in the game.

Smith also performed live at the Flyers' home game on May 13, 1975, before Game 7 of the Stanley Cup semifinals against the Islanders. Later on her performance, Islanders' captain Ed Westfall presented Smith with a boutonniere of flowers as each fellow member of the Islanders lined upwardly to milk shake her hand. Nonetheless, the Flyers won the game 4–1. On May 16, 1976, Smith fabricated one of her last public performances earlier Game 4 of the Stanley Loving cup Finals when the Flyers lost to the Montreal Canadiens 5–3 and were swept in that series. She made her terminal public performance on May 23, 1985, before Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals when the Flyers lost to the Edmonton Oilers 3–1, and lost the series in five games.

The Flyers' record when "God Bless America" was played or sung by Smith in person stood at a remarkable 100 wins, 29 losses, and five ties as of April xx, 2016[update].[19] Smith and her song remain a special function of Flyers' history. In 1987, the team erected a statue of Smith outside the Spectrum, their arena at the time, in her memory. Notwithstanding, the statue was later covered and then removed in April 2019 due to criticism of lyrics in some of her before songs that were perceived as racist. Until that fourth dimension, the Flyers still showed a video of her singing "God Bless America" in lieu of "The Star-Spangled Banner" for proficient luck before important games.[xx] The video of Smith'southward operation was subsequently accompanied by Lauren Hart, daughter of the belatedly Hockey Hall of Fame broadcaster, Gene Hart, longtime voice of the Flyers, and anthem singer for the Flyers. Before games whenever "God Bless America" was performed, Lou Nolan, the public address announcer for the Flyers at Wells Fargo Center would say "Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, we ask that you please ascent and remove your hats and salute our flags and welcome the number-one ranked anthemist in the NHL, Lauren Hart, every bit she sings 'God Bless America', accompanied by the nifty Kate Smith."[21]

Smith'due south plump effigy fabricated her an occasional object of derision; yet, belatedly in her career, Philadelphia Flyers hockey fans said about her appearance before games "It ain't BEGUN 'til the fat lady sings!" Smith was 5 feet 10 inches (ane.78 m) tall and weighed 235 pounds (107 kg) at the age of thirty.[22] She titled her 1938 autobiography Living in a Great Big Way.

Smith was the one thousand marshal of the 1976 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California and sang "God Bless America" and the National Anthem before the Rose Bowl game, a UCLA victory over Ohio Country.[23]

Contempo controversy [edit]

Smith'southward rendition of "God Anoint America" was played during the seventh-inning stretch of New York Yankees dwelling house games from 2001 until Apr 2019, when the practice was discontinued amidst controversy surrounding her 1931 recordings of "That's Why Darkies Were Built-in" and "Pickaninny Heaven".[24] The post-obit solar day, the Philadelphia Flyers followed suit,[25] and the statue of Smith outside the Flyers' arena was removed on April 21, 2019.[26] Her family unit responded by denying the racism allegations.[27] Those against the discontinuation of Smith'southward recordings have cited the satirical nature of the song "That's Why Darkies Were Born",[28] and the fact that it was as well popularized by Paul Robeson.[29] The song "Pickaninny Heaven" is from the film Hullo, Everybody!, one of whose writers was Fannie Hurst, a well-known abet for African American equality.[ citation needed ]

Smith called for racial tolerance in 1945 in an address on CBS Radio, declaring, "Race hatreds, social prejudices, religious bigotry, they are the diseases that eat away the fibers of peace". She went on to state "it is up to united states to tolerate one another in order to achieve peace".[xxx]

Personal life [edit]

Smith, who never married, rented several apartments in Manhattan during her long career. She had a home in Arlington, Virginia, and kept a summertime habitation on a small island in Lake Placid, New York.[31]

Religion [edit]

Later on attention services at a Catholic parish for 25 years, Smith converted to Roman Catholicism in 1965. During the time she spent in Lake Placid, she regularly attended Sunday Mass at St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church building and could be heard singing the hymns in her contralto voice.[32]

Expiry [edit]

In her later on years, Smith was impaired past diabetes. In 1976, she suffered brain damage later slipping into a diabetic coma. After she emerged from the coma, her family helped her movement in 1979 to Raleigh, North Carolina. In January 1986, Smith's right leg was amputated due to poor circulation caused by diabetes. Five months later, she underwent a mastectomy.[32] On June 17, 1986, Smith died of respiratory arrest at Raleigh Community Hospital in Raleigh at the age of 79.[33]

Patricia Castledine (1939-2021) was Smith'due south live-in nurse until the last day of her life.[34] Castledine became the president of the Kate Smith Fan Club later Smith'southward death and connected to concord that post until her own expiry in 2021.

For over a year following her death, Smith's remains were stored in a vault at St. Agnes Cemetery in Lake Placid, while officials of St. Agnes Church and the vocalizer's executors engaged in a dispute over Smith'southward asking to exist cached in a mausoleum on the cemetery's grounds. Her private burial service was held on November xiv, 1987.[35]

Legacy [edit]

She did a control functioning for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at the White House on June 8, 1939.[36] She received a Drake University medallion for "outstanding contributions to radio and the people".[37] Smith was inducted posthumously into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1999.[38] She was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2009.[39] In 2010, a U.S. commemorative stamp was issued featuring stamp art duplicating artwork created for the cover of a CD titled Kate Smith: The Songbird of the South. The artwork was based on a photograph of Smith taken in the 1960s.[40]

Presidential Medal of Freedom [edit]

On October 26, 1982, Smith received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America'southward highest civilian honor, past U.South. President Ronald Reagan. In bestowing the award, Reagan said:

The phonation of Kate Smith is known and loved by millions of Americans, young and one-time. In state of war and peace, it has been an inspiration. Those elementary but securely moving words, "God anoint America", have taken on added meaning for all of us considering of the way Kate Smith sang them. Thanks to her they take become a cherished function of all our lives, an undying reminder of the beauty, the courage, and the centre of this bang-up land of ours. In giving usa a magnificent, selfless talent like Kate Smith, God has truly blessed America.[41]

It was non the starting time time Smith had been saluted past a president. In 1969, in light of Jim Morrison's arrest in Miami for indecent exposure, Smith had performed with The Lettermen, Anita Bryant, and Jackie Gleason in a concert demonstration confronting indecency, for which President Richard Nixon commended the stars' performances.[42]

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External links [edit]

  • Kate Smith Commemorative Guild
  • Kate Smith at IMDb
  • Kate Smith at the Internet Broadway Database Edit this at Wikidata
  • Collection of mid-twentieth century advertising featuring Kate Smith from The TJS Labs Gallery of Graphic Design.
  • Illustrator Stan Drake recalls backstage at The Kate Smith Bear witness
  • Flyers History - Kate Smith
  • Kate Smith is dead; 'America loved her' at the Wayback Auto (archived June 17, 2012)
  • Kate Smith Sings God Bless America, 1930s on YouTube
  • Kate Smith at Find a Grave

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