Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 were joined by Woody Guthrie. The group specialized in topical songs, mostly songs advocating an anti-war , anti-racism and pro- union philosophy.
Millard Lampell (born Milton Lampell, January 23, 1919 – October 3, 1997) was an American movie and television screenwriter who first became publicly known as a member of the Almanac Singers in the 1940s.
As a self-described "split tenor" (between a tenor and a countertenor), [10] Pete Seeger was a founding 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 and Arkansas singer and activist Lee Hays, was a topical group, designed to function ...
Track Song Title Lead Vocals 1. Blow Ye Winds Heigh Ho: Pete Seeger 2. Away, Rio: Pete Hawes 3. Blow The Man Down: Woody Guthrie 4. House of the Rising Sun
After Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, the group wrote anti-fascist songs. The members of the Almanac Singers and residents of the Almanac House were a loosely defined group of musicians, though the core members included Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Millard Lampell and Lee Hays. In keeping with common utopian ideals, meals, chores and rent at ...
She was an on-and-off member of the Almanac Singers She and fellow Almanac singer, Baldwin "Butch" Hawes, an artist, were married in 1943. [1] Another Almanac member, Woody Guthrie, taught her mandolin. During World War II, Bess Lomax Hawes worked for the Office of War Information preparing radio broadcasts for troops overseas.
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 Tom Glazer. [1] The album presents "the songs of the men who left home and safety behind them in 1937 to fight Fascism" in Spain.
Sod Buster Ballads is a 1941 album by the Almanac Singers: Woody Guthrie, Millard Lampell, Lee Hays and Pete Seeger. The songs are: [1] Track listing.