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Lee Elhardt Hays (March 14, 1914 – August 26, 1981) was an American folk singer and songwriter, best known for singing bass with the Weavers. Throughout his life, he was concerned with overcoming racism , inequality , and violence in society.
The other founding Almanac members Pete Seeger and Lee Hays became President and Executive Secretary, respectively, of People's Songs, an organization with the goal of providing protest music to union activists, repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, and electing Henry A. Wallace on the third, Progressive Party, ticket. People's Songs disbanded in ...
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A study of the life and works of Harrison Marks, photographer of nudes. Endless shots of nude models posed against a variety of garish backgrounds are interspersed with dispiriting scenes in which Harrison Marks judges a beauty contest, works on some glum-looking home movies, or acts out a coy farce about the difficulties involved in photographing a cat.
A 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a torii gate at a Tokyo shrine.
Lonesome Traveler is a song written by Lee Hays who first recorded it in 1950 with The Weavers featuring his vocals and the banjo, guitar and vocal harmonies of fellow Weavers Pete Seeger, Fred Hellerman and Ronnie Gilbert. The Weavers themselves described the song as, “A modern spiritual, with driving rhythm and subtle off-beats.”
People's Songs was an organization founded by Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax, Lee Hays, and others on December 31, 1945, in New York City, to "create, promote, and distribute songs of labor and the American people." [1] The organization published a quarterly Bulletin from 1946 through 1950, featuring stories, songs and writings of People's singers ...
Kevin Costner’s son is about to make his screen debut in his father’s forthcoming passion project, a two-part Western titled Horizon: An American Saga.. Costner’s 15-year-old son, Hayes ...
According to Book Marks, the book received a "rave" consensus, based on fifteen critics: twelve "rave" and three "positive". [4]Spencer Hupp of The Sewanee Review sees the collection as a reminder of American suffering, because of racial violence but with hope for a better future: "If this book’s 1,148 uneven but often stunning lines prove anything, it’s that the threat of hate, the hope ...