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A Tribute to Lee Hays - Part 2

Folksinger Lee Hays (left) and his attorney Paul Ross listen to a question from the House Committee on Un American Activities Committee (HUAC) in Washington, D.C. August 16, 1955.

This is the second of three programs prepared as a tribute to a pivotal and influential figure in American folk music, Lee Hays, who died in August 1981. These shows were aired on successive Saturday evenings, and engendered considerable mail response from our listeners, some of which is referred to in the final broadcast.

WNYC archives id: 69252

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Part of Woody's Children.

Since January 1969 Woody's Children has aired the likes of Judy Collins, Odetta, Tom Paxton, Tom Chapin, Josh White, Jr., Peter, Paul & Mary, Pete Seeger and many other folk singers. The program is named for Woody Guthrie, the pioneering folk-singer and composer, and derives from Pete Seeger’s oft-quoted comment that most of the later performers and writers in the contemporary folk idiom are Woody’s Children.

The show was hosted and produced by Bob Sherman for 30 years on WQXR before the station decided it no longer fit its format. However, it did not die! Thankfully, Woody's Children was then picked up by WFUV where it can be heard to this day.

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