Self-Appraisal

            Larry King has written in his latest book about a great American composer who wrote a song—and disliked it so much, he placed it in a drawer and kept it there for twenty years.

            One day during the 1930s, the famous radio singer, Kate Smith, called the composer. She was set to perform at a big show on July 4.

            She asked her friend if he had a song for her.

            He replied, “I wrote something a long time ago, but it’s no good—too sentimental.”

            “Let me see it,” she said.

            “I don’t like it,” came his rejoinder.

            “Let me see it,” she cajoled him.

            At last, he did.

            The composer was Irving Berlin. The song was GOD BLESS AMERICA.

            Sometimes, we are not the best judges of our own work.