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The Almanac Singers was an American New York City-based folk music group, active between 1940 and 1943, founded by Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie. The group specialized in topical songs, mostly songs advocating an anti-war, anti-racism and pro-union philosophy. They were part of the Popular Front, an alliance of liberals and leftists, including the Communist Party USA (whose slogan, under their leader Earl Browder, was "Communism is twentieth century Americanism"), who had vowed to put aside their differences in order to fight fascism and promote racial and religious inclusiveness and workers' rights. The Almanac Singers felt strongly that songs could help achieve these goals.[citation needed]
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TheAlmanacSingers was an American New York City-based folk music group, active between 1940 and 1943, founded by Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger...
in much the same capacity for Pete Seeger's post-AlmanacSingers project People's Songs, a newsletter and booking organization for labor singers, founded...
finally Bernie Krause until the group disbanded in 1964. In 1940, Lee Hays and Pete Seeger co-founded theAlmanacSingers, which – along with American...
folk groups: theAlmanacSingers and the Weavers. TheAlmanacSingers, which Seeger co-founded in 1941 with Millard Lampell and Arkansas singer and activist...
tune by Joseph Philbrick Webster. TheAlmanacSingers on Dear Mr. President 1942 Will Geer on Bound for Glory 1958 The Weavers on At Carnegie Hall, Volume...
using the names the Gordonaires (a play on the name of the group's first tenor Gordon Stoker), the Merry Melody Singers, and theAlmanacSingers, sometimes...
dancer. According to the Marjorie Guthrie Project: Marjorie Mazia met Woody Guthrie in 1942, when he was a member of theAlmanacSingers, living at 430 6th...
D.C. The catalogue numbers here relate to National Archive listings. Series of Discs for the Library of Congress, recorded by theAlmanacSingers, only...
of the archives and "giving it to singers". Nick Reynolds and Roger McGuinn credit The Weavers and the labor songs of theAlmanacSingers as the inspiration...
theAlmanacSingers. The song tells of the common struggles that a union organizer faces while starting a new labor union. The song helped name the record...
This song is unrelated to the song titled "Viva la Quince Brigada" that was recorded by Pete Seeger and theAlmanacSingers in the early 1940s. That song...
debate the club voted in hootenanny, which narrowly beat out wingding. Seeger, Woody Guthrie and other members of theAlmanacSingers later used the word...
joined TheAlmanacSingers. He stayed with the group for two years until he was drafted into the Army to fight in the Second World War. After the end of...
of the earliest novels by an American Mennonite author about Mennonites. Friesen and his wife Cunningham were also members of theAlmanacSingers during...
of theAlmanacSingers and The Weavers, was a major influence on Dylan and his contemporaries, and continued to be a strong voice of protest in the 1960s...
Woody Guthrie and theAlmanacSingers. Gilbert Vandine Houston was born in Wilmington, Delaware, United States, on August 18, 1918, the second of four children...
(2006) Charley Patton (1929) TheAlmanacSingers with Pete Seeger on The Original Talking Union and Other Union Songs (1955) The Harmonizing Four (single;...
television screenwriter who first became publicly known as a member of theAlmanacSingers in the 1940s. Lampell was born in Paterson, New Jersey, one of five children...
example is theAlmanacSingers' cover on Talking Union and other Union Songs, Folkways FH 5285 (1955), reissued by Smithsonian Folkways. See also The People's...
to sing in a trio called The Song Swappers, backing up Pete Seeger in the 1955 Folkways LP reissue of theAlmanacSingers' The Talking Union and two other...
Songs of the Lincoln Brigade is a 1940 album by several members of theAlmanacSingers: Baldwin 'Butch' Hawes, Bess Lomax Hawes and Pete Seeger, along...
of the 1940s–1950s, including theAlmanacSingers, wrongly credited Guthrie as the creator of the talking blues. By the 1940s, what had started as a comedic...
of the AlmanacSingers. Another member, Pete Seeger, writes: "I'm proud to say I was present when 'Union Maid' was written in June, 1940, in the plain...
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