Re: [IRCA] WHKP-1450 and their Commie music format

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Dunno about Peter, Paul and Mary, but "If I Had a Hammer"'s two writers were respectively a Communist and what the McCarthyites used to call a "fellow traveler."

Pete Seeger joined the Young Communist League (YCL) in 1937, and the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) in 1942.

Lee Hays was a regular contributor to the Marxist periodical New Masses in the 1930's.  In a letter published in the January 11, 1938 issue, he describes himself as "a rank-and-file worker of a Soviet America."

Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee





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