Dear Mr. President (Almanac Singers album)
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Dear Mr. President is a 1942 album by the Almanac Singers
Almanac Singers
The Almanac Singers were a group of folk musicians who, as their name indicates, specialized in topical songs, especially songs connected with the labor movement...

: Agnes Cunningham, Baldwin Hawes, Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...

, Millard Lampell
Millard Lampell
Millard Lampell was an American movie and television screenwriter who first became publicly known as a member of the Almanac Singers in the 1940s....

, Lee Hays and Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
Peter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer and was an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead...

. After the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor
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, 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
United States
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 entrance into World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 all American unions adopted a no-strike pledge. 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
Songs for John Doe
Songs for John Doe was the 1941 debut album and first released product of the Almanac Singers, an influential early folk music group.The album was released in May 1941, at a time when World War II was raging but the United States remained neutral. The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were still at...

. This lost the Almanacs a sizeable chunk of their working repertoire. The songs are:

Track listing

Track Song Title By
1. Belt Line Girl Agnes 'Sis' Cunningham
2. Dear Mr. President Pete Seeger
3. Deliver the Goods Seeger, Hawes
4. Ruben James Guthrie, Hays, Lampell
5. Round and Round Hitler's Grave Guthrie, Lampell, Seeger
6. Side By Side Arthur Stern
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