[78-L] Today Kate Smith; tomorrow ...?

[Rodger Holtin 78-L]

Since the restored King of Jazz has recently been made available on blue ray I've been waiting for somebody to start slinging Mississippi Mud. 

Robeson, himself long a darling of the Left, recorded more of that stuff than almost anybody I can name, and that's a microcosm of the whole sad, silly story. 

Are the sports teams really looking for a way to dump God Bless America? I'm betting on that as the next real driver here. 

Sent from my sluggish old iPhone, which explainz any bad typjng, bad spellimg, nonsensical word choices, delays and all other lapses. 

> On Apr 20, 2019, at 8:59 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid> wrote:
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> Frank Sinatra in 1940. "Without a Song", original lyrics. String him up.
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> This whole thing is unbelievable..
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> dl
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>> On 4/20/2019 9:51 PM, Lloyd Davies wrote:
>> <<<Sports teams dump Kate Smith's 'God Bless America' because of her racist songs>>>
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>> I'm not writing as a defender of Kate Smith.  Altho a few of her recordings reveal her lively and emotive stage persona [I'm a big fan of "Somebody loves me" (1941)], most of her career was spent playing it safe as milk for her radio audience.  People are currently taking umbrage at a couple of her recordings from the early 1930's which a) have fallen out of circulation, and b) were hardly the most cringeworthy discs of their time.
>> HonkingDuck is letting me down, so I'm unable to search who else recorded "Pickaninny Heaven", but a simple search shows the other offending title "That's Why Darkies Were Born" was recorded by many others, including Paul Robeson.
>> I'm not claiming that people have no right to look backward with a revisionist lens, but I'm wondering what other artist who is still recognizable today should more fittingly be the subject of boycott.
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>> I would nominate Bing Crosby for his blackface performance of "Accentuate de positive" in "Here come the waves" (1944).
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>> I also won't object if Admin wants to cancel this thread.
>> - Stephen in Calgary
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