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"Ballad for Americans" (1939), originally titled "The Ballad for Uncle Sam", is an American patriotic cantata with lyrics by John La Touche and music by Earl Robinson. It was written for the Federal Theatre Project production, Sing for Your Supper that opened on April 24, 1939. [1] Congress abolished the project on June 30, 1939.
Ballad for Americans is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in 1940 featuring the popular "Ballad for Americans" sung by Crosby in an American-type patriotic style. In 1946, the two records in this album were put into a new album called What We So Proudly Hail. This was Crosby's first studio album that was not a reissue ...
A child playing tag.. This is a list of games that are played by children.Traditional children's games do not include commercial products such as board games but do include games which require props such as hopscotch or marbles (toys go in List of toys unless the toys are used in multiple games or the single game played is named after the toy; thus "jump rope" is a game, while "Jacob's ladder ...
The American Dream Game (1979) The American Heritage historical war-game series: Battle Cry, American Civil War (1961) Broadside, War of 1812 naval (1962) Dogfight, World War I aerial (1963) Hit the Beach, World War II amphibious (1965) Skirmish, American Revolution (1975) The Amazing Spider-Man Game with the Fantastic Four! (1967) Spider-Man ...
New York Street Games lovingly recalls a central feature of the lives of hundreds of thousands of children who grew up in New York City in the twentieth century: games played in the streets of the city. Many of the ball games featured are played with a pink rubber ball called a Spaldeen. In the documentary, Whoopi Goldberg is seen discussing ...
The title song was written by Earl Robinson who had been blacklisted during the Red Scare in the US. Allmusic states: "Odetta's rendition has a vitality and immediacy that puts it squarely in the thick of 1960, in the middle of the civil rights movement's heyday, at a time when Paul Robeson, because of age and infirmity, and years of fighting the government's efforts to silence him, was in ...
Here are the 40 most popular baby boy and 40 most popular baby girl names of the 1940s, according to the Social Security Administration's database. Top 40 baby boy names of the 1940s. James ...
50 Cent: Bulletproof; 50 Mission Crush; 100 Rogues; 100ft Robot Golf; 101: The Airborne Invasion of Normandy; 221B Baker Street (video game) 280 ZZZAP; 300: March to Glory; 720° 989 Sports Major League Baseball series; 1000 Amps; 1000 Days of Syria; 1001 Spikes; 1080° Avalanche; 1830: Railroads & Robber Barons; 1942: The Pacific Air War; 1979 ...