Dear Mr. President (album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Dear Mr. President
| type = Album
| artist = Almanac Singers
| cover = Dear mr prez.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1942
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Folk
| length =
| label = Keynote
| producer = Alan Lomax
| prev_title = Songs Of The Lincoln Battalion
| prev_year = 1940
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}}
Dear Mr. President is a 1942 album by the Almanac Singers.
{{cite web
| title = The Almanac Singers: Dear Mr. President
| publisher = Woody Guthrie
| url = http://www.woodyguthrie.de/prez.html
| access-date = 28 September 2020}}
History
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 because with American entrance into World War II all American unions adopted a no-strike pledge.The Almanac Singers. [https://web.archive.org/web/20091020152511/http://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.
Track listing
| class="wikitable"
|+Dear Mr. President 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. | Reuben James | Guthrie, Hays, Lampell |
| 5. | Round and Round Hitler's Grave | Guthrie, Lampell, Seeger |
| 6. | Side By Side | Arthur Stern |
Personnel
- Agnes Cunningham, vocals, accordion
- Baldwin "Butch" Hawes, vocals
- Bess Lomax Hawes, vocals, mandolin
- Arthur Stern, vocals
- Pete Seeger, vocals, banjo
Production notes:
- Earl Robinson – director
References
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Category:Almanac Singers albums