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	Almanac Singers - Biography - AOL Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Almanac Singers lasted for barely a year and only left behind three dozen songs, and their work was at least as controversial as it was popular.
		The Almanac Singers' music was closely tied to their politics, and it is impossible to tell of their history without going into their politics, which both inspired the group and also doomed it at the same time.
		The Almanacs remained strongly anti-Roosevelt, and at least one of their records aimed at the president got into the hands of his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, who thought it was in dubious taste, and reportedly angered the president himself.
	music.aol.com /artist/almanac-singers/12190/biography (1679 words)

	Woody Bowles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In June 1941 the Almanacs were joined by Woody Guthrie, who had traveled from the Pacific Northwest to New York City after composing a group of songs commissioned by the Bonneville Power Administration.
		Although the Almanac Singers originally comprised Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Millard Lampell, and Pete Seeger (who used the name Pete Bowers at the time), at various times the group included Sis Cunningham, Butch Hawes, Cisco Houston, Bess Lomax (Hawes), and Arthur Stern.
		The Almanac Singers never regrouped after the war, but each of its members remained active as a folksinger—perpetuating the folk process of sharing music with others.
	users2.ev1.net /~smyth/linernotes/personel/AlmanacSingers.htm (605 words)

	Bess (Lomax) Haws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		BESS (LOMAX) HAWES, : Singer, guitarist, mandolinist, songwriter, folklorist.
		She is a self-taught guitarist, and her early years were highlighted by her participatory role in the influential Almanac Singers.
		As a member of the Almanac Singers, Butch Hawes played primarily backup guitar, sang tenor vocal accompaniment, composed songs (his best-known composition is probably "Arthritis Blues"), and met Bess Lomax, whom he married in 1942.
	users2.ev1.net /~smyth/linernotes/personel/HawsBess.htm (1553 words)

	The Database of Recorded American Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		With Millard Lampell, a writer who had graduated from the University of West Virginia, they became the Almanac Singers and gave an impromptu performance for the National Youth Congress in Washington that same year.
		The Almanacs became a quartet in the early summer of 1941 when Woody Guthrie joined them, and they traveled across America later that summer, singing at union meetings from New York to California.
		The Almanacs drifted apart after 1942, just as the New York press was launching an attack on them for their political views and activities.
	dlib.nyu.edu /dram/note.cgi?id=7561 (438 words)

	The Almanac Singers (1940s)
		THE ALMANAC SINGERS, 1941: WOODY GUTHRIE, LEE HAYS, MILLARD LAMPELL, PETE SEEGER
		They were not pop singers, not ethnic singers, not quite hillbilly singers, though they would perhaps have been pleased to persuade some in their audience that they were.
		The Almanacs brought to their performances what Michael Rogin calls the "alternative, polyglot world" of New York's entertainment culture, "in which the children of Jewish immigrants found new cosmopolitan identities among Jews, other immigrants, children of old-stock Americans...
	www.geocities.com /Nashville/3448/almanac.html (397 words)

	American Masters . Bob Dylan . Influences Map . Pete Seeger\| PBS
		He met Woody Guthrie in 1940 and formed the Almanac Singers with him and others in the early 1940s.
		The group released a number of albums of political folk material on the Keynote label, but broke up during World War II as they disagreed about their goals and members went off to join the war effort.
		The Weavers had a hit with the Leadbelly song, "Irene, Goodnight," in 1950 but they were fllisted in the McCarthy era because of their politics.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/dylan/dylan_seeger_p.html (527 words)

	Daily Worker May 13, 1941 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		ac Singers came as a result of the spontaneous enthusiasm with which the Almanac Singers were met wherever they entertained.
		Because the songs they sing are so much a part of American life today, it was a natural extension of their activities to join with a company who wanted to say the same things through a different medium.
		The Almanac Singers have, of course, written their own songs.
	www.peteseeger.net /DW05121941.htm (230 words)

	Daily Worker May 15, 1941 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is because the Almanac Singers felt the need to take their part in the history-making events they have witnessed, that these four boys abandoned their staid, comfortable lives.
		The Almanac Singers want to dispel the generally accepted notion that folk music is dead, "Well, it isn't," one of them heatedly said — "this kind of music is being written every day in places like the Ford picket line -the Harvester strike - Harlan County and other similar historical scenes."
		Wherever men and women gather to protest or voice their struggles - the Almanac Singers have given them a way of doing it that is both vital and effective.
	www.peteseeger.net /dw05151941.htm (369 words)

	Songs for John Doe (The Almanac Singers)
		In early March 1941 a group was organized to finance and produce the Almanacs' first record album, "Songs for John Doe." Among its members were veteran record producer John Hammond, Earl Robinson and Keynote label owner Eric Bernay (nee Bernstein).
		Six masters ["'C' For Conscription" and "Washington Breakdown" were recorded as one take] were recorded in a two or three hour session in a small Central Park West studio in late March or early April 1941....
		The songs that launched the Almanac Singers just four months earlier were now hopelessly out of date.
	www.woodyguthrie.de /doe.html (605 words)

	Almanac Singers : Talking Union & Other Union Songs - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		This is the most readily available collection of the recordings made by the influential Almanac Singers, including the title track, "The Union Maid," "Which Side Are You On," and other standards of the union struggle.
		Pete Seeger's idea for a folk group would take more permanent form a decade later with the Weavers, and the concept would help give birth to the folk boom of the late 1950s and early '60s.
		Note, however, that the album contains only six Almanac Singers tracks, recorded in May 1941, paired with seven tracks recorded in 1955 by Pete Seeger and a chorus dubbed "the Song Swappers" that included Erik Darling, later of the Weavers, and Mary Travers, later of Peter, Paul and Mary.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,42730,00.html (308 words)

	Pete Seeger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When he returned to New York in 1940, Seeger formed the Almanac Singers, a rotating cast of folk singers (at times including Woody Guthrie) that merged politically progressive lyrics with folk tunes.
		The Almanac Singers disbanded during World War II, when Pete Seeger was drafted.
		During the McCarthy-era Red Scare the Weavers -- less political than the Almanac Singers, but still outspokenly socialist -- suffered boycotts that severely curtailed their success.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/snd/peteseeger.html (492 words)

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		After Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera was the most popular female singer of the late-'90s teen pop revival.
		Dance-pop singer Jessica Simpson was born and raised in Dallas, TX, beginning her performing career as a member of her church choir; at 12, she...
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	American Folk Music - Newsletter #126 - The Almanac Singers -> Various Artists
		Two CD set featuring this two fine folk singers recorded live at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco in 1983.
		21 tracks, 78 mins, highly recommended Superb tribute to singer/ banjo player Derroll Adams an American folk musician who went to tour Europe in 1957 and ended up staying there until his death two years ago at the age of 75.
		This set is beautifully packaged as a small hardbound book with a 60 page booklet with extensive notes including a biography, tributes and reminiscences by fellow performers, song lyrics and lots of photos of Derroll throughout the years as well as the performers featured here.
	www.rootsandrhythm.com /roots/NEWSLETTER126/newsletter126_amfolk.htm (317 words)

	NPR : Actor ALAN ALDA. The star of the TV show MASH (for which he won Emmys for acting, writing, and...
		Critic MILO MILES reviews the new collection by the Almanac singers, an early urban folk group that included Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Pete Hawes, Millard Lampell and Pete Seeger.
		The CD is "The Almanac Singers: Their Complete General Recordings" (on MCA)12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPYOn today's Fresh air -- actor ALAN ALDA.
		And critic MILO MILES reviews a new collection by the early urban folk rock group, the Almanac Singers, which included Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1109543 (252 words)

	UVa Library: Exhibits: Lift Every Voice
		Early revival groups, such as the Almanac Singers, the Weavers, and the Kingston Trio, modeled themselves on workers' choruses of the Communist and Socialist parties, which viewed the "people's" music as an important force in the struggle for equality.
		Another folk revivalist, Pete Seeger performed with the Weavers and the Almanac Singers.
		The legendary blues singer Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, was serving time for murder in prison in Angola, Louisiana, when John and Alan Lomax passed through on their 1933 recording trip for the Library of Congress.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /small/exhibits/music/ballads_thisland.html (567 words)

	Almanac Singers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Almanac Singers were a group of folk musicians who achieved brief popularity in the early 1940s.
		Members Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie began playing together informally after Seeger and Hays had been playing at left-wing political functions for a time.
		Seeger and Hays founded communal homes called Almanac Houses, but the group fell apart soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Almanac_Singers (286 words)

	Labor Sings! Exhibit
		1909) wrote "Belt Line Girl" and was the soloist on the Almanac Singers' album, "Dear Mr.
		Growing up in rural Oklahoma, Sis was early involved in labor organizing as a musician.
		She married Gordon Friesen in 1941 shortly before they moved to New York City in December, when she joined the Almanac Singers.
	www.laborarts.org /exhibits/laborsings/song.cfm?id=16 (178 words)

	Timeline of Woody Guthrie (1912-1967)
		Joined the Almanac Singers in New York for cross-country summer tour; recorded Deep Sea Chanteys and Whaling Ballads and Sod-buster Ballads with the Almanacs for General Records.
		Moved to Greenwich Village, living and performing with the Almanac Singers.
		In the wake of Pearl Harbor, began writing pro-war songs with the Almanac Singers.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/wwghtml/wwgtimeline.html (796 words)

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		We would be most interested in learning of World War II collections that might be suitable for addition to the Archive of Folk Culture.
		AFS 6100B: One 10-inch disc containing "Round and Round Hitler's Grave" sung with accordion, banjo, and guitar by the Almanac Singers, led by Pete Seeger.
		AFS 7039B: "Pearl Harbor" sung by the New York, Georgia, Singers.
	www.loc.gov /folklife/guides/textfiles/wwii.txt (3700 words)

	TIME.com: June Records -- Jun. 16, 1941 -- Page 1
		Released by the "Almanac Singers," a carefully anonymous Manhattan Communist ensemble, was an album of seven Songs for John Doe.
		The sort of exciting harmony and tempo usually heard only from colored spiritual singers in the remote Southeastern backwoods, and not in Manhattan nightclubs—where, it so happens, the Golden Gate Quartet does sing.
		>An immensely difficult coloratura soprano aria, even for markswomanly singers, is the one in Mozart's Magic Flute in which the Queen of the Night declares that she is boiling with fury.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,765744-1,00.html (712 words)

	Folk Music 101 - Major American Artists - Almanac Singers/Weavers - Folk Music
		These two groups, both based in New York and consisting of overlapping personnel, spanned the forties and fifties.
		In addition to a similar sound and philosophy, the groups shared a goal of popularizing folk songs and focusing attention on labor, peace and justice issues.
		Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger were among the original Almanac Singers.
	www.balladtree.com /folk101/bio_almanac-weavers.htm (135 words)

	ALMANAC SINGERS: The Sea, The Soil And The Struggle (1941-1942) recommended cd collection, cd review and cd details.
		ALMANAC SINGERS: The Sea, The Soil And The Struggle (1941-1942) recommended cd collection, cd review and cd details.
		Classical Music Home > ALMANAC SINGERS: The Sea, The Soil And The Struggle (1941-1942)
		ALMANAC SINGERS: The Sea, The Soil And The Struggle (1941-1942)
	www.naxos.com /catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.120733 (88 words)

	Walmart.com - Music Downloads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hit-makers in the late '40s and early '50s, The Weavers evolved from the earlier Pete Seeger/Woody Guthrie-led folk/political activist group, The Almanac Singers.
		Previously, Seeger and Hays had been members of the Almanac Singers with Woody Guthrie.
		Unlike many similar groups of the time, the Weavers were able to attain commercial acceptance and success, without having to compromise their folk heritage.
	www.walmart.com /swap/LoadArtistBio.do?artistId=11617 (554 words)

	CMT.com : Almanac Singers : Artist Main
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		The Almanac Singers lasted for barely a year and only left behind three dozen songs, and their work was at least as controve...
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	Labor Sings! Exhibit
		Also included on their Talking Union album, the Almanacs adapted this song by Florence Reece, wife of a coal miner in Harlan County, Kentucky, written during a violent strike in 1931.
		It was quickly picked up by northern radicals sympathetic to the strikers.
		Illustration: Songs of the Almanac Singers (Bob Miller, 1942)
	www.laborarts.org /exhibits/laborsings/song.cfm?id=12 (52 words)

	Almanac Singers MP3 Downloads - Almanac Singers Music Downloads - Almanac Singers Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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	www.mp3.com /almanac-singers/artists/8986/songs.html (286 words)

	The World Almanac E-Newsletter--February 2003
		A judge in the "Baby M" case awards custody of the child to the father, William Stern, and denies parental rights to the surrogate mother, Mary Beth Whitehead.
		It was the 2nd Daytona 500 win for Waltrip, who also won the tragedy-marred 2001 race in which his team owner and fellow driver Dale Earnhardt was killed in a last-lap crash.
		The late singer Billie Holiday was originally named Eleanora Fagan.
	www.worldalmanac.com /newsletter/200303WAE-Newsletter.html (7259 words)

	Sing Out by Pete Seeger/Woody Guthrie
		Which Side Are You On - Pete Seeger, Almanac Singers
		Round and Round Hitler's Grave - Pete Seeger, Almanac Singers
		Sinking of the Reuben James - Pete Seeger, Almanac Singers
	www.mmguide.musicmatch.com /album/album.cgi?ALBUMID=545279 (168 words)

	VH1.com : Almanac Singers : Artist Main
		Add a link to your "Almanac Singers" fan site on VH1.com!
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	www.vh1.com /artists/az/almanac_singers/artist.jhtml (118 words)

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