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The Preferred Name Is The Almanac Singers The Almanac Singers Was A Group Of American Folk Musicians That 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. Mainstream National Success Began After The American Youth Congress Meeting In Washington D.C. In February Of 1941. Others Who Sang With The Group At Various Times Included Sis Cunningham John Peter Hawes And His Brother Baldwin Butch Hawes Bess Lomax Hawes Wife Of Butch Cisco Houston And Arthur Stern. Politics And Music Remained Closely Intertwined With The Members' Political Beliefs Which Were Far-Left And Occasionally Led To Controversial Associations With The Communist Party USA. Their First Release Was An Album Called Songs For John Doe Would Urged Non-Intervention In World War II And Was Made With The Help Of Eric Bernay Of Keynote Joe Thompson Of NBC Nicholas Ray Future Film Director And Alan Lomax Musicologist . The Second Album Was Talking Union A Collection Of Labor Songs Many Of Which Were Intensely Anti-Roosevelt. More Recordings Followed But Blacklisting And Internal Friction Soon Drove The Group Apart. Seeger And Hays Founded Communal Homes Called Almanac Houses But The Group Fell Apart Soon After The Attack On Pearl Harbor. Hays And Seeger Went On To Form The Weavers In 1947. Discography Original Studio Albums 1. Songs For John Doe Almanac Records 1941 . 2. Talking Union Keynote 1941 . 3. Deep Sea Chanteys And Whaling Ballads General 1941 . 4. Sod-Buster Ballads General 1941 . 5. Songs Of The Lincoln Battalion Asch 1942 . 6. Dear Mr. President Keynote 1942 . Singles * Song For Bridges / Babe Of Mine Keynote 1941 . * Boomtown Bill / Keep That Oil A-Rollin Keynote 1942 . Compilations * Talking Union & Other Union Songs Smithsonian Folkways 1973 * Their Complete General Recordings MCA 1996 * Songs Of Protest Prism 2001 * Talking Union Vol. 1 Naxos 2001 * The Sea The Soil & The Struggle Naxos 2004 read less