Kate Smith performed "God Bless America" to a sell out crowd of 17,007 prior to the game.
The Flyers came into the series with their own good luck pre- game singer in the form of Kate Smith who sang "God Bless America" before home games at The Spectrum.
However, since the September 11, 2001 attacks, God Bless America has often been added to it, especially at games in New York City and Washington D.C, as well as during the All-Star Game and the postseason.
Carl Zeidler was known as the "Singing Mayor of Milwaukee" because wherever he went he always had a song for every meeting or occasion, especially "God Bless America"; he was also called the "Boy Mayor" because of his boyish good looks.
The last time the prisoners heard his voice, he was loudly singing "God Bless America".
"God Bless America" has been replaced with a fanfare leading directly into "The Star-Spangled Banner", along with a new star set.
The PUP had defied the colonial order by singing "God Bless America" instead of the royal anthem "God Save the King" (or Queen).
On August 9, 2009, Langhorne Slim sang "God Bless America" during the seventh inning stretch during a Philadelphia Phillies-Florida Marlins game at Citizens Bank Park as WXPN's Artist to Watch and has twice been featured on the station's Free at Noon concert series.
She is best known for performing "The Star Spangled Banner" and "O Canada" prior to Philadelphia Flyers games, the team for which her father Gene Hart was the long-time television and radio announcer for 29 years, and also performing a duet of God Bless America with a taped version of Kate Smith on several occasions, especially big games, among them games in the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals.
The film ends with the appearance of the National Guard, who surround Lady Divine on the street and shoot her down, accompanied by the sound of Kate Smith singing "God Bless America".
He called for his friend and co-worker Harry Ruby to join him in writing down the flurry of songs that Berlin would create, including "God Bless America," which Berlin would eventually toss out of the play for being too sticky.
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The race was the first Cup race run following the September 11 attacks, and to commemorate the occasion, fans were given American flags, and Lee Greenwood sang "God Bless the USA", while Tanya Tucker sang "God Bless America", and a quartet of singers from Delaware State University performed the national anthem.
On November 11, 2011, a performance was aired on KYW-TV where Washington joined the Philadelphia Boys Choir & Chorale, of which he is a former member, and the "Facebook Volunteer Choir" at the Zion Baptist Church in north Philadelphia in singing God Bless America, in tribute to America's military veterans.
It has been a custom on WAMC to play two songs to mark the end of every fund drive: Kate Smith's "God Bless America" and Ray Charles' rendition of "America the Beautiful".