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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.
Lee Hays died in 1981, aged 67. [19] His biography, Lonesome Traveler by Doris Willens, was published in 1988. [20] Erik Darling died August 3, 2008, aged 74, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from lymphoma. [21] After a long career in music and activism, Pete Seeger died at the age of 94 on January 27, 2014, in New York City.
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 ...
A 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a torii gate at a Tokyo shrine.
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 song was first publicly performed by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays on June 3, 1949, at St. Nicholas Arena in New York City at a dinner in support of prominent members of the Communist Party of the United States, including New York City Councilman Benjamin J. Davis, who were then on trial in federal court, charged with violating the Smith Act by advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government. [3]
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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 ...