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I Shall Not Be Moved" (Roud 9134), also known as "We Shall Not Be Moved", is an African-American slave spiritual, hymn, and protest song dating to the early 19th century American south. [1] It was likely originally sung at revivalist camp-meetings as a slave jubilee .
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.
Talking Union is a 1941 album by the Almanac Singers: Millard Lampell, Lee Hays and Pete Seeger.It is a collection of union songs and ballads, written by many different labor songwriters over the years.
Can We Learn to Get Along: 1976: Bruce Woodley – – Can't Make Up My Mind: 1967: Judith Durham: David Reilly – Seekers Seen in Green: Columbia Records, EMI Music: Keith Grant/The Seekers: 2:18 The Carnival Is Over: 1965 – – Tom Springfield (melody from a Russian folk song) Carry Me: 2022: Bruce Woodley – – – Michael Cristiano: 4. ...
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.
The group's repertoire consisted of freedom songs that had been written or adapted for the movement, including "We Shall Overcome", "We Shall Not be Moved", and "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize". [6] After the tour, the original group disbanded and was carried on by others. Beyond the 1980s the original four reunited to sing several times.
During the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact from 1939 to 1941, the group also sang songs attacking Franklin D. Roosevelt as a warmonger and opposing Britain's war against Nazi Germany. After the Almanac Singers disbanded in 1942, Lampell wrote the lyrics for The Lonesome Train , a ballad opera on the death of Abraham Lincoln , with music ...
On March 11, 1944, [10] Alan Lomax assembled the group for an impromptu recording at the Asch Recording Studio in New York City. [1] [2] [5] [11]The album represents a change from the anti-war, anti-racism, and pro-union philosophies of most of its members but a continuation of their anti-Nazi, anti-Fascist philosophies in the form for support for the US and the Allies (which included the USSR).