Like the New York Yankees, the team had earlier stopped using her rendition of 'God Bless America' because some of her recordings 'evoke painful and unacceptable themes.'
The Flyers had covered the statue of singer Kate Smith last week and now have removed it. By Cindy Boren Cindy Boren Reporter covering sports, with an emphasis on politics and national stories Email Bio Follow April 21 at 4:38 PM The Philadelphia Flyers have removed the statue of singer Kate Smith from outside their arena and will no longer play her rendition of “God Bless America,” a version synonymous with the team, after some of the late singer’s racially insensitive songs resurfaced.
Smith became the Flyers’ good-luck charm when she performed the song live before Game 6 of the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals and the Flyers beat Boston, winning the first of back-to-back Cups. Her statue was erected outside the Spectrum in 1987 and moved to the Xfinity Live! entertainment complex in 2011. It initially was covered Friday with a dark tarp after her song list was first reported by the New York Daily News.
Last week, the New York Yankees announced that they would suspend the use of her version of the song, which had been played regularly during the seventh-inning stretch ever since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacks. Their decision was reached in part because of her hit “That’s Why Darkies Were Born” and another entitled “Pickaninny Heaven.” The former song originated in the 1931 Broadway revue “George White’s Scandals” and was purported to be a satire of white supremacists.
“The Yankees have been made aware of a recording that had been previously unknown to us and decided to immediately and carefully review this new information,” a team spokesman told the Daily News last week. “The Yankees take social, racial and cultural insensitivities very seriously.The husband of Smith’s niece, Suzy, noted that she performed the two songs while she as “trying to make her mark” in her 20s.
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