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...
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Woody Guthrie (category 20th-century American male singers)
in much the same capacity for Pete Seeger's post-Almanac Singers project People's Songs, a newsletter and booking organization for labor singers, founded...
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Harlan County's coal mining community. The Almanac Singers – Talking Union, 1941 The Weavers – The Weaver's Almanac, 1963 Pete Seeger – Greatest Hits, 1967...
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finally Bernie Krause until the group disbanded in 1964. In 1940, Lee Hays and Pete Seeger co-founded the Almanac Singers, which – along with American...
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dancer. According to the Marjorie Guthrie Project: Marjorie Mazia met Woody Guthrie in 1942, when he was a member of the Almanac Singers, living at 430 6th...
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Pete Seeger (category American folk singers)
folk groups: the Almanac Singers and the Weavers. The Almanac Singers, which Seeger co-founded in 1941 with Millard Lampell and Arkansas singer and activist...
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using the names the Gordonaires (a play on the name of the group's first tenor Gordon Stoker), the Merry Melody Singers, and the Almanac Singers, sometimes...
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tune by Joseph Philbrick Webster. The Almanac Singers on Dear Mr. President 1942 Will Geer on Bound for Glory 1958 The Weavers on At Carnegie Hall, Volume...
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of the archives and "giving it to singers". Nick Reynolds and Roger McGuinn credit The Weavers and the labor songs of the Almanac Singers as the inspiration...
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This song is unrelated to the song titled "Viva la Quince Brigada" that was recorded by Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers in the early 1940s. That song...
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Talking Union (album) (category Almanac Singers albums)
Talking Union is a 1941 album by the Almanac Singers: Millard Lampell, Lee Hays and Pete Seeger. It is an enduring collection of working man's anthems...
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Woody Guthrie discography (section Unissued LOC Recordings: Home Disc Recordings & 1941 Almanac Singers)
D.C. The catalogue numbers here relate to National Archive listings. Series of Discs for the Library of Congress, recorded by the Almanac Singers, only...
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the Almanac Singers. The song tells of the common struggles that a union organizer faces while starting a new labor union. The song helped name the record...
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like the Almanac Singers and the Weavers began writing and performing their own original material and creating their own musical arrangements. In the early...
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debate the club voted in hootenanny, which narrowly beat out wingding. Seeger, Woody Guthrie and other members of the Almanac Singers later used the word...
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Pete Seeger discography (redirect from The Essential Pete Seeger)
joined The Almanac Singers. 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...
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of the earliest novels by an American Mennonite author about Mennonites. Friesen and his wife Cunningham were also members of the Almanac Singers during...
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Dear Mr. President (album) (redirect from Dear Mr. President (Almanac Singers album))
President is a 1942 album by the Almanac Singers. After the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, in February 1942 the Almanacs went into the studio to record a set...
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Millard Lampell (category American folk singers)
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 children...
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Testament on their album Demonic Songs for John Doe, the 1941 debut album of the Almanac Singers American Homebuilts John Doe, an American aircraft design...
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Cisco Houston (category American folk singers)
Woody Guthrie and the Almanac Singers. Gilbert Vandine Houston was born in Wilmington, Delaware, United States, on August 18, 1918, the second of four children...
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with Guthrie and others of the Almanac Singers. The album Bound for Glory was compiled and released following that event. The title was taken from Guthrie's...
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") In 1947, Lee Hays, of the Almanac Singers and The Weavers, rearranged Follow the Drinkin' Gourd and published it in the People's Songs Bulletin. Familiar...
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I Shall Not Be Moved (category Songs of the civil rights movement)
(2006) Charley Patton (1929) The Almanac Singers with Pete Seeger on The Original Talking Union and Other Union Songs (1955) The Harmonizing Four (single;...
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of the Almanac Singers and The Weavers, was a major influence on Dylan and his contemporaries, and continued to be a strong voice of protest in the 1960s...
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Solidarity Forever (category Industrial Workers of the World culture)
example is the Almanac Singers' cover on Talking Union and other Union Songs, Folkways FH 5285 (1955), reissued by Smithsonian Folkways. See also The People's...
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Talking blues (section Development of the genre)
of the 1940s–1950s, including the Almanac Singers, wrongly credited Guthrie as the creator of the talking blues. By the 1940s, what had started as a comedic...
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of the Almanac Singers. 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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Sod Buster Ballads (category Almanac Singers albums)
is a 1941 album by the Almanac Singers: Woody Guthrie, Millard Lampell, Lee Hays and Pete Seeger. The songs are: The Almanac Singers. Sod Buster Ballads...
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Peter Yarrow (redirect from Peter (singer))
to sing in a trio called The Song Swappers, backing up Pete Seeger in the 1955 Folkways LP reissue of the Almanac Singers' The Talking Union and two other...
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