God Bless America Girl Scouts in New York City. Smith performed the song on her two NBC television series in the 1950s and in her short-lived "The Kate Smith Show" on CBS, which aired from January 25 to July 18, 1960. "God Bless America" also spawned another of Irving Berlin's tunes, "Heaven Watch The Philippines," during the end of World War II after he heard the Filipinos sing a slightly revised version of the song replacing "America" with "The Philippines." The song was used early in the Civil Rights Movement as well as at labor rallies. During the 1960s, the song was increasingly
God Bless Miss Black America produced by Julia Kidd and Daisy Metz. Five tracks from the album were released as single, they were; All five were included in two of John Peel's Festive Fiftys. ""Don't Speak My Mind"" and ""Human Punk"" were included in the 2001 list, placed at number 42 and number 14 respectively, while ""Infinite Chinese Box"", ""Miss Black America"" and ""Talk Hard"" were placed at 45, 11 and 3 respectively in the 2002 list. The album has been described as a ""fast 'n' hard sonic pummelling"", and that ""much of God Bless sounds like the more mature Manic Street Preachers playing U2's