....but the melody lingers on. Another icon has fallen. The late Kate Smith has been singing "God bless America" at all Yankee and Flyers games. She was even adopted as the Phila. Flyers mascot. But it seems that in the 1930s she recorded a racially tainted song and now pays the price as banishment from the current scene while she is not around to explain the circumstances. Over the years artists were "required" to present second rate material to fill out side B at the direction of the recording studio. Kate's theme song "When the moon comes over the mountain...." is on UTube in all its clarity as I remember as a child listening to her on the radio. So the Flyers took a "slap shot" at her, wiping out a part of their history, threw a sheet over her statue and moved it from in front of their arena. Move over Joe Paterno!
tjs NYT 4/20/19
