God Bless America (Compilation)

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God Bless America
Compilation album by Various Artists

Publication
(s)

October 16, 2001

Label (s) Columbia Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Various

Title (number)

15th

running time

62:11

God Bless America is a charity - Compilation of Columbia Records in 2001. It was therefore approximately one month after the October 16, 2001 terrorist attacks on September 11 released. The proceeds went to the Twin Towers Fund. The album peaked at number 1 on the Billboard 200 .

background

Shortly after the September 11th terrorist attacks, Celine Dion performed the song God Bless America on Telethon America: A Tribute to Heroes . The arrangement was made by David Foster . The day before, she recorded a studio version, which eventually became the title track of the compilation.

Much of the album is pre-released material, with both patriotic and civil rights songs featured on the album. Land of Hope and Dreams by Bruce Springsteen is exclusively represented in a live version from 2000 and John Mellencamp's Peaceful Wold in an acoustic version from 2001.

The selection of songs extends over several decades. The oldest song is Frank Sinatra's version of America the Beautiful from 1945.

The proceeds were used to support the Twin Tower Fund from New York City Mayor Rudolph Guiliani , who raised money to support members of the fire and police rescue workers who perished during the rescue work.

Track list

# Interpreter title composer year length
1. Celine Dion God Bless America Irving Berlin 2001 3:47
2. Bruce Springsteen Land of Hope and Dreams (2000 live recording) Bruce Springsteen 2001 9:32
3. Mariah Carey Hero Mariah Carey, Walter Afanasieff 1993 4:20
4th Tramaine Hawkins Amazing grace John Newton , Southern Harmony 1994 7:10
5. Bob Dylan Blowin 'in the wind Bob Dylan 1963 2:48
6th Simon & Garfunkel Bridge over Troubled Water Paul Simon 1970 4:55
7th John Mellencamp Peaceful World (unreleased 2001 live acoustic version) John Mellencamp 2001 3:38
8th. Billy Gilman There's a hero Don Cook, John Barlow Jarvis 2000 3:28
9. Frank Sinatra America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates , Samuel A. Ward 1945 2:33
10. Lee Greenwood God Bless the USA Lee Greenwood 1984 3:16
11. Pete Seeger This Land Is Your Land Woody Guthrie 1964 3:02
12. Gloria Estefan Coming out of the dark Gloria Estefan, Emilio Estefan Jr., Jon Secada 1991 4:05
13. Mahalia Jackson We Shall Overcome Zilphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy Carawan, Pete Seeger 1963 2:46
14th The Mormon Tabernacle Choir The Star-Spangled Banner Francis Scott Key , John Stafford Smith 1965 2:34
15th Bill Withers Lean on Me Bill Withers 1972 4:17

reception

success

The album sold 180,984 copies in the week of release, reaching number 1 on the Billboard 200 . Celine Dion's God Bless America was also released as the only single on the album and reached number 14 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary charts.

Reviews

Andrew Dansby wrote in Rolling Stone that it was no wonder that the compilation was selling so well because there was something for everyone on the sampler. On Allmusic you saw this similar: _ have the album a wide range of folk than rock / pop to country and gospel . This wide range would make it stand out from the mass of similar samplers published after the terrorist attacks.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jon Wiederhorn: Mariah Carey, Springsteen, Dylan Contribute To Benefit CD. In: MTV.com. October 8, 2001, accessed August 2, 2020 .
  2. ^ Health update: World Trade Center disaster . October 5, 2001, ISSN  0307-1235 ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed August 2, 2020]).
  3. ^ Columbia's 'America' Features Celine, Dylan. In: Billboard.com. October 5, 2001, accessed August 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Andrew Dansby, Andrew Dansby: God Bless America on Top. In: Rolling Stone. October 24, 2001, Retrieved August 2, 2020 (American English).
  5. ^ God Bless America (Sony) - Various Artists. Allmusic , accessed August 2, 2020 (American English).