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Soon after, in 1867, these schools consolidated to form the Howard School following the vision of the Freedmen ’ s Bureau chief General Oliver O. Howard who erected a building on a tract of land generously donated by seven prominent African-American men – Matthew N. Leary, Andrew J. Chestnutt, Robert Simmons, George Grainger, Thomas Lomax, Nelson Carter, and David A. Bryant – who together paid $ 136 for two lots on Gillespie Street in Fayetteville and formed among themselves a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees to maintain the property for the education of local black youth.
Both of these were produced by Alan Lomax on General, the label that had issued his Jelly Roll Morton recordings in 1940.

Lomax and Store
Trenton was first settled in 1834 and was known as Lomax Store for the J. S.

Lomax and on
Lomax spent the last 20 years of his life working on an interactive multimedia educational computer project he called the Global Jukebox, which included 5, 000 hours of sound recordings, 400, 000 feet of film, 3, 000 videotapes, and 5, 000 photographs.
* Eric Lomax, author of The Railway Man, an autobiography based on these events, which is being made into a film of the same name starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman.
Others included " Mean Mr. Mustard " and " Polythene Pam " ( both of which would be used for the medley on Abbey Road ); " Child of Nature " ( recorded with drastically different lyrics as " Jealous Guy " for Lennon's Imagine ); " Etcetera " ( a McCartney composition ); " The Long and Winding Road " ( completed in 1969 for the Let It Be LP ); " Something " ( which ended up on Abbey Road ); and " Sour Milk Sea " ( which Harrison gave to friend and Apple artist Jackie Lomax for his first LP, Is This What You Want ).
* Jackie Lomax – background vocals and handclaps on " Dear Prudence "
" Lomax added that " hey also wanted to brew up a little whiskey and subsist on the bass, catfish and perch they hauled from the Neches and Angelina rivers and whatever they could trap and shoot on dry land.
Also in that year, Colin Petersen produced " Make a Stranger Your Friend " performed by Jonathan Kelly, on which Gibb singing on the chorus with Mick Taylor of The Rolling Stones, Klaus Voormann of Plastic Ono Band, Madeleine Bell, three members of The Family Dogg, Jackie Lomax, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and others.
During the New Deal, with his father, famed folklorist and collector John A. Lomax and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress on aluminum and acetate discs.
In the 1970s and 80s Lomax advised the Smithsonian Institution's Folklife Festival and produced a series of films about folk music, American Patchwork, which aired on PBS in 1991.
The elder Lomax, a former professor of English at Texas A & M and a celebrated authority on Texas folklore and cowboy songs, had worked as an administrator, and later Secretary of the Alumni Society, of the University of Texas.
In late 1939, Lomax hosted a series on CBS's nationally broadcast American School of the Air, called American Folk Songs and Wellsprings of Music, a music appreciation course that aired daily in the schools and was supposed to highlight links between American folk and classical orchestral music.
In 1940, Lomax and his close friend Nicholas Ray went on to write and produce a fifteen-minute program, Back Where I Come From, which aired three nights a week on CBS and featured folk tales, proverbs, prose, and sermons, as well as songs, organized thematically.
In a letter to the editor of a British newspaper, Lomax took a writer to task for describing him as a " victim of witch-hunting ", insisting that he was in the UK only to work on his Columbia Project.
Lomax spent the 1950s based in London, from where he edited the 18-volume Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, an anthology issued on newly-invented LP records.
Lomax also hosted a folk music show on BBC's home service and organized a skiffle group, Alan Lomax and the Ramblers ( who included Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, and Shirley Collins, among others ), which appeared on British television.
In Young's opinion, " Lomax put on what is probably the turning point in American folk music.
" In 1947, the day after producing a concert by Slim, Broonzy, and Williamson at New York City's Town Hall, folklorist Alan Lomax brought the three musicians to the Decca studios and recorded with Slim's on vocal and piano.

Lomax and Grand
Drew was out of town at the time, as he was dealing with former Supreme Grand Governor Lomax Bey ( professor Ezaldine Muhammad ), who had supported Green-Bey's attempted coup.
In the 1930s, radio programs such as the Grand Ole Opry kept interest in Appalachian music alive, and collectors such as musicologist Alan Lomax continued to make field recordings in the region throughout the 1940s.

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Lomax is located at ( 40. 679763 ,-91. 072341 ).
Lomax, now 17, therefore took a break from studying to join his father's folk song collecting field trips for the Library of Congress, co-authoring American Ballads and Folk Songs ( 1934 ) and Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly ( 1936 ).
The following June Red Channels, a pamphlet edited by former F. B. I agents which became the basis for entertainment industry blacklist of the 1950s, listed Lomax as an artist or broadcast journalist sympathetic to Communism ( others listed included Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein Yip Harburg, Lena Horne, Langston Hughes, Burl Ives, Dorothy Parker, Pete Seeger, and Josh White ).
Upon his return to New York in 1959, Lomax produced a concert, Folksong ' 59, in Carnegie Hall, featuring Arkansas singer Jimmy Driftwood ; the Selah Jubilee Singers and Drexel Singers ( gospel groups ); Muddy Waters and Memphis Slim ( blues ); Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys ( bluegrass ); Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger ( urban folk revival ); and The Cadillacs ( a rock and roll group ).
Each summer, between 1891 and 1894, he also attended the annual lecture-and-concert series at New York State's Chautauqua Institute, which pioneered adult education ( and where Lomax himself would later lecture ).
Tragedy struck the Lomax family in 1931 when Lomax's beloved wife Bess Brown died at the age of fifty, leaving four children ( the youngest, Bess, only ten years old ).
A filmed re-enactment in early 1935 for The March of Time newsreel of Lomax's discovery of Lead Belly in prison, led to the myth that John Lomax made Lead Belly perform in prison stripes ( which is inaccurate ).
Following in his grandfather's footsteps, Lomax's grandson John Lomax III is a nationally published United States music journalist, author of Nashville: Music City USA ( 1986 ), Red Desert Sky ( 2001 ) and co-author of The Country Music Book ( 1988 ).
Also important were occasional radio shows, such as Lomax ’ s Ballads and Blues, MacColl ’ s Radio-ballads ( 1958 – 64 ) and The Song Carriers ( 1968 ).
* Lomax, Rebecca ( July 18 – Jul 24, 2002 ).
( See Alan Lomax, Collector of Songs ).
Lady Britomart, the daughter of a British earl, and her son Stephen discuss a source of income for her grown daughters Sarah, who is engaged to Charles Lomax, and Barbara, who is engaged to Adolphus Cusins ( a scholar of Greek literature ).
After Mary Cocke died, John Wayles married a third time, to Elizabeth Lomax Skelton ( incidentally the widow of Reuben Skelton, brother of Martha Wayles ' first husband Bathurst Skelton ).
The experience of her life with Lomax and the making of the recordings in religious communities, social gatherings, prisons and chain gangs was described in Collins's book America Over the Water ( published 2004 ).
With actor Pip Barnes, she tours with her three illustrated talks " America over the Water " ( about her field trip in the Southern States of America with Alan Lomax ), " A Most Sunshiny Day " ( about the traditional music of England and Sussex in particular ) and " I'm a Romany Rai " ( about the Gypsy singers and songs of Southern England ).
Quatermass and Lomax turn instead to the press, in the form of journalist Jimmy Hall ( Sid James ).
* Lomax, Alan ( 1959 ).
* Lomax, Alan ( 1968 ).
The film continues the misadventures of two young executives, Larry Wilson ( Andrew McCarthy ) and Richard Parker ( Jonathan Silverman ), and their deceased boss, Bernie Lomax ( Terry Kiser ).
( Lomax 2000 ).
* Lomax, Alan ( 1959 ).
* Lomax, Alan ( 1968 ).
Originally published in 2003 in liner notes to The Alan Lomax Popular Song Book, Rounder CD 82161-1863-2 ( 2003 ).

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