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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."
"People" is a song composed by Jule Styne with lyrics by Bob Merrill for the 1964 Broadway musical Funny Girl starring Barbra Streisand, who introduced the song. The song was released as a single in 1964 with " I Am Woman ", a solo version of "You Are Woman, I Am Man", also from Funny Girl .
Seeger would play at People's Songs events, called hootenannies, until the organization folded in 1949. [4] After People's Songs, Seeger and another former member of the Almanacs, Lee Hays, founded the Weavers, who achieved commercial success. [5] In 1952, The Weavers went on hiatus due to the Red Scare; Seeger and Hays both had Communist ties. [6]
Well, if Kelly still sounds this amazing singing other people's songs, we can't wait to dig into her newest album. "Piece by Piece" will be available in stores and online Tuesday. (Video via RCA ...
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 ...
Many of the songs in the 1950s hinted at the simmering racial tension that would later usher in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The 1950s was a pivotal era in music, laying the groundwork ...
One of our favorite parts of listening to music is figuring out who the song is about -- and now is your chance to finally find out!
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.