* Industrial Workers of the World & Woody Guthrie

Its roots went earlier, and performers like Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Oscar Brand had enjoyed a limited general popularity in the 1930s and 1940s.

Many notable musicians have recorded John Henry ballads, including: Lead Belly, and Woody Guthrie.

In 1941, the BPA hired Oklahoma folksinger Woody Guthrie to write songs for a documentary film promoting the benefits of hydropower.

" Yip " Harburg ( performed by Judy Garland in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz ), " White Christmas " written by Irving Berlin ( best-known performance by Bing Crosby ), " This Land Is Your Land " written and performed by Woody Guthrie, " Respect " written by Otis Redding ( best-known performance by Aretha Franklin ), and " American Pie ".

Woody Guthrie is a great example of a songwriter and artist with such an outlook.

This earlier collection — which includes the famous Jelly Roll Morton, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Muddy Waters sessions, as well as Lomax ’ s prodigious collections made in Haiti and Eastern Kentucky ( 1937 ) — is the provenance of the American Folklife Center " at the library of Congress

Along the way, McGuinn's original album concept was jettisoned in favor of a fully fledged country project, which included Parsons ' songs such as " One Hundred Years from Now " and " Hickory Wind ", along with compositions by Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Merle Haggard, and others.

In critic Kurt Loder's description, the Sex Pistols purveyed a " calculated, arty nihilism, the Clash were unabashed idealists, proponents of a radical left-wing social critique of a sort that reached back at least to ... Woody Guthrie in the 1940s ".

* Woody Guthrie recorded an excerpt of the Rubaiyat set to music that was released on Hard Travelin ' ( The Asch Recordings Vol.

" In The Last Waltz, Manuel claimed that they wanted to call themselves either " The Honkies " or " The Crackers " ( which they used when backing Dylan for a January 1968 concert tribute to Woody Guthrie ), but these names were vetoed by their record label ; Robertson suggests that during their time with Dylan everyone just referred to them as " the band " and it stuck.

Woodrow Wilson " Woody " Guthrie ( July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967 ) was an American singer-songwriter and folk musician whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works.

When Nora Guthrie was institutionalized, Woody Guthrie was 14.

The 14-year-old Woody Guthrie worked odd jobs around Okemah, begging meals and sometimes sleeping at the homes of family friends.

The Woody Guthrie Foundation is a non-profit organization that serves as administrator and caretaker of the Woody Guthrie Archives.

Jonatha Brooke's 2008 album, The Works includes lyrics from the Woody Guthrie Archives set to music by Jonatha Brooke.

The various artists compilation Note of Hope: A Celebration of Woody Guthrie was released in 2011.

The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival is held annually in mid-July to commemorate Guthrie's life and music.

Planned and implemented annually by the Woody Guthrie Coalition, a non-profit corporation, the goal is simply to ensure Guthrie's musical legacy.

The Woody Guthrie Coalition commissioned a local Creek Indian sculptor to cast a full-body bronze statue of Guthrie and his guitar, complete with the guitar's well-known inscription: " This machine kills fascists ".

He played music producer Tony Lacey in the 1977 Woody Allen film Annie Hall, and wrote and starred in 1980's One Trick Pony as Jonah Levin, a journeyman rock and roller.

An example of a re-versioned film is Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily ?, in which the director wrote new English dialogue for the Japanese film International Secret Police: Key of Keys for comic effect.

Recently, J. Hoberman wrote in The Village Voice, " The New York City that Woody so tediously defended in Annie Hall was in crisis.

Swann was obviously based on Flynn, while Benjy Stone is loosely based on both Brooks and Woody Allen, who also wrote for Caesar.

On hearing the news Woody Guthrie wrote Lomax from California, " Too honest again, I suppose?

In 1947, Woody got his own theme song when musicians George Tibbles and Ramey Idriss wrote " The Woody Woodpecker Song ", making ample use of the character's famous laugh.

Woody Guthrie wrote several songs about the Northwest under the commission of the Bonneville Power Administration.

Critic Stephanie Zacharek wrote in her review " Rising star Samantha Morton shines in this charming, finely crafted film from Woody Allen " and that " Her performance is like nothing I ’ ve seen in recent years.

Woody Guthrie wrote a song that mournfully stated: " I started out to write a song to the entire population / But no sooner than I got the words down, here come a brand new situation ".

Woody Guthrie wrote the song Farmer-Labor Train

Many writers contributed to the screenplay, including Southern ( who wrote most of the dialogue for Sellers ), Woody Allen, Wolf Mankowitz, Michael Sayers, Frank Buxton, Joseph Heller, Ben Hecht, Mickey Rose, and Billy Wilder.

A 1944 Band graduate of New York Military Academy, in Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY, he wrote jazz compositions like " Not Really the Blues " for Woody Herman in 1949, " Hershey Bar " ( 1950 ) and " Pot Luck " ( 1953 ) for Stan Getz, " Straight Life " ( 1953 ) and " Low Life " ( 1956 ) for Count Basie as well as " Tommyhawk " ( 1954 ) for Chet Baker.

In 1952, when Kennedy ran for governor of Florida, his friend and houseguest Woody Guthrie wrote a set of lyrics for a campaign song, " Stetson Kennedy ".

In March 1939, five years after Floyd's death, Woody Guthrie, a native of Oklahoma, wrote a song romanticizing Floyd's life, called " The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd.

Fifty years before Woody Guthrie she wrote protest songs and set them to traditional tunes.

Among the comics he wrote for were The Flintstones, Uncle Scrooge, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, The Three Stooges and Woody Woodpecker.

Actor Woody Strode wrote in his memoirs that he and Marvin got into a lot of pranks, on one occasion shooting an arrow into Vegas Vic, the famous smiling cowboy neon sign outside The Pioneer Club.

As well as recording an album of Woody Guthrie songs, Children's Songs of Woody Guthrie, he wrote and recorded the conservation anthem, Leave Them a Flower.

Livingston wrote and produced many other children's recordings including products for Walt Disney ; Walter Lantz's Woody Woodpecker ; Bugs Bunny and all of the Warner Bros. characters.

Continuing to write for Skelton and Hope as he moved into television, Douglas also wrote for Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby, Woody Allen, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Jack Paar Show, The George Gobel Show and Laugh-In.

A re-released version of the song " Last Train Out ," which he wrote in memory of the Allman Brothers Band and Gov't Mule bass player Allen Woody, appears on the record.