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Lee Elhardt Hays (March 14, 1914 – August 26, 1981) was an American folk singer and songwriter, best known for singing bass with the Weavers. Throughout his life, he was concerned with overcoming racism, inequality, and violence in society.
The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City originally consisting of Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman. Founded in 1948, the group sang traditional folk songs from around the world, as well as blues, gospel music, children's songs, labor songs, and ...
27 ago 1981 · Lee Hays, who sang bass with the Weavers, the folk-singing quartet that started the folk-music boom of the 1950's, died of a heart attack at Phelps Memorial Hospital in...
14 mar 2014 · Lee Hays was a key part of the folk music revolution in America. Born 100 years ago today, the singer and songwriter performed with the Almanac Singers and the Weavers, two of the great folk...
"If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)" is a protest song written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays. It was written in 1949 in support of the Progressive movement, and was first recorded by the Weavers, a folk music quartet composed of Seeger, Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman.
Lee Hays (born March 14, 1914, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA – died August 26, 1981, Croton-on-Hudson, New York, USA) was an American Folk singer with The Weavers. He is also best known for co-writing "If I Had A Hammer" with Pete Seeger.
the Weavers were a seminal American folksinging group of the late 1940s and ’50s. The original members were Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, Fred Hellerman, and Pete Seeger. Later members.