Woody Guthrie in Will Geer's apartment. Guthrie made his first recordings—several hours of conversation and songs recorded by the folklorist Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress—as well as an album, "Dust Bowl Ballads," for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey. In February 1940 he wrote his most famous song, "This Land Is Your Land", as a response to what he felt was an overplaying of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on the radio. Guthrie thought the lyrics were unrealistic and complacent. He adapted the melody from an old gospel song, "Oh My Loving Brother", which had been adapted by the country
Mandy (Irving Berlin song) Sothern, George Murphy, The Nicholas Brothers, and The Goldwyn Girls in the 1934 film "Kid Millions". The song was revived in the 1954 movie "White Christmas," where it was sung by Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, and Rosemary Clooney. Crosby also recorded the song in 1954 for use on his radio show and it was subsequently included in the box set "The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954-56)" issued by Mosaic Records (catalog MD7-245) in 2009. Mandy (Irving Berlin song) "Mandy" is a popular song by Irving Berlin, published in 1919. "Mandy" was originally used for an Army relief show called