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Millard Lampell (433 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

television screenwriter who first became publicly known as a member of the Almanac Singers in the 1940s. Lampell was born in Paterson, New Jersey, one of five

Songs of the Lincoln Brigade (70 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Songs of the Lincoln Brigade is a 1940 album by several members of the Almanac Singers: Baldwin 'Butch' Hawes, Bess Lomax Hawes and Pete Seeger, along with

Talking Union (627 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Talking Union" is a talking blues song written by members of the Almanac Singers. The song tells of the common struggles that a union organizer faces

Cisco Houston (1,675 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

folk/blues musicians as Lead Belly, Sonny Terry, Woody Guthrie and the Almanac Singers. Gilbert Vandine Houston was born in Wilmington, Delaware, United

The Jordanaires (1,598 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

group's first tenor Gordon Stoker), the Merry Melody Singers, and the Almanac Singers, sometimes using different personnel. In 1948, Monty and Bill Matthews

Viva la Quinta Brigada (371 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

titled "Viva la Quince Brigada" that was recorded by Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers in the early 1940s. That song is a variation of a Spanish song about

Sam Gary (162 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in the 1940s was a member of Josh White and His Carolinians and the Almanac Singers. In 1956, he recorded an album for Tom Wilson's Transition Records

Gordon Friesen (290 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mennonites. Friesen and his wife Cunningham were also members of the Almanac Singers during the 1940s, a Greenwich Village urban folk music revival group

Doris Willens (2,634 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Traveler: The Life of Lee Hays (1988), describing his career with the Almanac Singers and the Weavers. Willens worked for the New York Journal-American

The Weavers (2,397 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

disbanded in 1964. In 1940, Lee Hays and Pete Seeger co-founded the Almanac Singers, which – along with American folk songs and ballads – promoted peace

Eric Bernay (1,342 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

chorus of veterans of the Thälmann Battalion), Dear Mr. President and the Almanac Singers' debut album Songs for John Doe. Songs for John Doe was released

Hootenanny (1,094 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

narrowly beat out wingding. Seeger, Woody Guthrie and other members of the Almanac Singers later used the word in New York City to describe their weekly rent

Part of the Union (610 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Union" – covers at Strawbsweb official site "Union Maid" song by the "Almanac Singers" at the Wayback Machine (archived October 27, 2009) "Part of the

Talking blues (1,107 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

little mutton stew. Several sources of the 1940s–1950s, including the Almanac Singers, wrongly credited Guthrie as the creator of the talking blues. By

Pete Seeger (13,911 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

member of two highly influential folk groups: the Almanac Singers and the Weavers. The Almanac Singers, which Seeger co-founded in 1941 with Millard Lampell

Jesse James (folk song) (1,168 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

song "Ballad of October 16" from the album Songs for John Doe by the Almanac Singers is based on the same melody and has lyrical similarities. The folksinger

Commonwealth College (Arkansas) (1,983 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Agnes "Sis" Cunningham, co-founder of the Almanac Singers and The Weavers. Lee Hays, co-founder of the Almanac Singers, The Weavers, and Broadside Magazine

Pittsburgh Town (1,122 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

origin of the song. Several historians trace "Pittsburgh Town" to the Almanac Singers' 1941 national tour. According to the liner notes of Pete Seeger's

Rainbow Quest (1,666 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sung with Seeger and Woody Guthrie, among others, as a member of the Almanac Singers, was one of the key people involved in making the decision. Thus

Union Boys (1,042 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Woody Guthrie by contributing a song). Songs of Victory fits with the Almanac Singers' album Dear Mr. President. In 1942, Army intelligence and the FBI

Follow the Drinkin' Gourd (615 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spells the title "Foller de Drinkin' Gou'd.") In 1947, Lee Hays, of the Almanac Singers and The Weavers, rearranged Follow the Drinkin' Gourd and published

Bess Lomax Hawes (1,215 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

she was active on the folk scene. She was an on-and-off member of the Almanac Singers; she and a fellow Almanac singer, Baldwin "Butch" Hawes, an artist

Florence Reece (783 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Side Are You On" in 1940. The following year, it was recorded by the Almanac Singers in a version that gained a wide audience. More recently, Billy Bragg

Singer-songwriter (5,673 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

young performers inspired by traditional folk music and groups like the Almanac Singers and the Weavers began writing and performing their own original material

Solidarity Forever (1,992 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Forever", American West, January 1968, pp. 23, 24. An example is the Almanac Singers' cover on Talking Union and other Union Songs, Folkways FH 5285 (1955)

Parallel Lines (Dick Gaughan & Andy Irvine album) (1,335 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

interpretation of Bob Dylan's song. "The Dodger's Song" was first recorded by the Almanac Singers in 1942, which included Woody Guthrie. Irvine and Gaughan "added

Sis Cunningham (1,320 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Seeger and Woody Guthrie, and Cunningham was briefly a member of the Almanac Singers, appearing on the 1942 album Dear Mr. President for Keynote Records

Peter Yarrow (4,089 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Swappers, backing up Pete Seeger in the 1955 Folkways LP reissue of the Almanac Singers' The Talking Union and two other albums. As well as performing twice

Josh White (10,262 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Seeger, Burl Ives, and Lee Hays in their folk cooperative group the Almanac Singers and in the later group People's Songs, which consisted of the core

Music history of the United States (5,461 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Appalachian folk. Singers like Pete Seeger emerged, in groups like the Almanac Singers and The Weavers. Lyrically, these performers drew on early singer-songwriters

American Jews (23,705 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

correspondence. The influential group The Weavers, successor to the Almanac Singers, led by Pete Seeger, had a Jewish manager, and two of the four members

Lee Hays (5,727 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

trio began to sing at left-wing functions and to call themselves the Almanac Singers. It was a somewhat fluid group that included Josh White and Sam Gary

Len De Caux (2,148 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Answering You, Labor for Victory, Jazz in America, and We the People. The Almanac Singers (of which Guthrie and Lampell were co-founders) did appear (as they

Nicholas Ray (14,940 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

occupied by Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, and Millard Lampell, core members of the Almanac Singers. He committed himself for a time to psychoanalysis, but in time fell

American popular music (12,736 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sporadic mainstream success of groups like the Kingston Trio and the Almanac Singers, while Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger helped to politically radicalize

Culture of New York City (10,750 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mainstream success in the 1940s and 1950s; some, like Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers, did well, but most were confined to local coffeehouses and other

Music and politics (15,739 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was Joe Hill. Later, from the 1940s through the 1960s, groups like the Almanac Singers and The Weavers were influential in reviving this type of socio-political

The Bushwhackers (band) (3,336 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

of folk-song activists working in America since the 1940s such as the Almanac Singers and The Weavers. As well as representing the struggle of the working

Bob Miller (composer, born 1895) (3,870 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

material by other artists in addition to himself. He published music by the Almanac Singers, Patsy Montana, Elton Britt, and many other artists. From the late

Timeline of music in the United States (1920–1949) (20,608 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

with Woody Guthrie, Millard Lampell and Lee Elhardt Hays to form the Almanac Singers, who have been called the "first urban folk-singing group". They