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First Song - Let It Snow

First Song - Let It Snow

Broadcast: November 27, 1946
Added: Nov 23 2023

Frank Sinatra opens the show with the song Let it Snow. Other songs on this Thanksgiving eve show include You'll Always Be The One I Love, I Concentrate On You and Falling In Love With Love. Guest Peggy Mann sings Give Me A Good Night Kiss. Frank and The Pied Pipers sing Zippa dee do da. Patriotic songs include Glory Glory and The House I Live In, with its poignant lyrics, more so especially in 1946 after World War II:

What is America to me?
A name, a map, or a flag I see?
A certain word, "democracy"?
What is America to me?

The house I live in, a plot of earth, a street
The grocer and the butcher, and the people that I meet
The children in the playground, the faces that I see
All races and religions, that's America to me...

The place I work in, the worker by my side
The little town or city where my people lived and died
The "howdy" and the handshake, the air of feeling free
And the right to speak my mind out, that's America to me...

The things I see about me, the big things and the small
The little corner newsstand and the house a mile tall
The wedding in the churchyard, the laughter and the tears
The dream that's been a-growin' for a hundred and fifty years...

The town I live in, the street, the house, the room
The pavement of the city, or a garden all in bloom
The church, the school, the clubhouse, the millions lights I see
But especially the people
That's America to me.