kate smith

Here is one from the vaults that will surely make you smile on this Independence Day 2014.  Enjoy...and have a great holiday weekend everybody!

On this day in 1939, singer Kate Smith recorded the venerable Irving Berlin tribute to America...."God Bless America.."  She had first introduced the song on her Armistice Day show on radio in 1938. Kate Smith would forever be associated with this patriotic song and she sang it literally thousands of times over her 60-year career...

Kate Smith was one of the most important personalities in American 20th-Century entertainment.  Amazingly she was the first superstar of BOTH radio and television! Older generations remember her with fondness from her #1 long-running radio shows and for her introduction of Irving Berlin's classic "God Bless America...

Although many have forgetten this classy dame, Juliet Prowse made international history once! When Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev visited the U.S. in1959 he went to Hollywood.  There he watched Prowse perform a sexy version of the can-can for the movie of the same name.  T...