Here's a recorded version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMwUB3vaHVI

Despite the label billing of "Gray Gordon and his Tic-Toc Rhythm," Gordon set aside his usual gimmicky tick-tock sound effects for a more serious approach to this patriotic theme. Though it has a WW2 feel to it, the track was recorded more than a year prior to the Pearl Harbor attack.

Transferred from the original 78rpm: Bluebird 10783 - (Shout Wherever You May Be) I Am An American (Schuster-Cunningham-Whitcup) by Gray Gordon and his Tic-Toc Rhythm, vocal by Meredith Blake, Art Perry and Chorus, recorded June 21, 1940

I AM AN AMERICAN (Shout Wherever You May Be)
(Lyric and Music Ira Schuster, Paul Cunningham and Leonard Whitcup)

[fanfare, then spoken voice]
We present today a guest star
You'll forget who all the rest are
When you meet this man;
For now at last, you can
So prepare to do your cheering,
For the next voice you'll be hearing
Represents a truly great American.

[male singer]
On the street, in the home
in a crowd or alone,
Shout! wherever you may be.
I am an American,
I am, from the heart of me.

Rich or poor, young and old,
Let this message be told,
Shout! wherever you may be,
I am an American,
I'm proud of my liberty.

In the fact'ry, in the mill,
thru' each valley, from each hill,
raise your voice and give America a thrill!
On the farms, in the schools,
show the world we're no fools,
Shout! wherever you may be,
I am an American....
[cheers and voices from crowd: "So am I! I'm an American! Me too!"]

[female singer]
[spoken] I, too, am an American.
[sung] And although I'm no man,
I'm for you, Uncle Sam,
I'll shout! wherever I may be,
I am an American,
I am, from the heart of me.
And although I'm no lad,
Like my brother and my dad,
I'll shout! wherever I may be,
I am an American,
I'm proud of my liberty.


[all] In the fact'ry, in the mill,
thru' each valley, from each hill,
raise your voice and give America a thrill!
On the farms, in the schools,
show the world that we're no fools,
Shout! wherever you may be,
I am an American,
I am, every part of me.


[announcer - spoken]
Let us fervently hope that the spirit of this song will reach into the heart of all America.


Joe's opinion: It makes me a bit nervous to post this jingoistic crap when we have an idiot like Trump on the throne.