“God Bless America” would become a sensation ... Berlin sold more than half a million copies of the sheet music in 1939 alone. After the United States entered World War II, she performed ...

Kate Smith sang this verse in her earliest radio performances of "God Bless America," but by February 1939, when the printed sheet music was copyrighted, the storm clouds stayed, but Berlin ...

February 1939 Sheet music published amid a battle between Berlin and Smith over performance rights to the song. June 1940 God Bless America Fund established by Berlin to distribute the song ...