Dear Mr. President (Almanac Singers album)
- Dear Mr. President (Almanac Singers album)
Infobox Album
Name = Dear Mr. President
Type = Album
Artist = Almanac Singers
Released = 1942
Recorded =
Genre = Folk
Length =
Label = Keynote
Producer = Alan Lomax
Reviews =
Last album = Songs Of The Lincoln Battalion
(1942)
This album = Dear Mr. President
(1942)
Next album = The Live Wire
(1949) Dear Mr. President is a 1942 album by the Almanac Singers: Agnes Cunningham, Baldwin Hawes, Woody Guthrie, Millard Lampell, Lee Hays and Pete Seeger. After the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, in February 1942 the Almanacs went into the studio to record a set of songs supporting the American war effort. This was partly to do with the fact that with American entrance into World War II all American unions adopted a no-strike pledge.[The Almanac Singers. [http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/3448/prez.html Dear Mr. President] Retrieved February 21, 2008] Another contributing factor was that, after Hitler invaded the USSR in June 1941, Moscow had reversed its previous anti-intervention stance as expressed in the group's earlier album, Songs for John Doe. This lost the Almanacs a sizeable chunk of their working repertoire. The songs are:]
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