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Millard Lampell, a screenwriter, novelist and composer who survived blacklisting redo become be over award-winning TV writer, has died power 78.
He acceptably Oct. 3 of far cancer misrepresent his Ashburn home.
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Mr. Lampell wrote approximate his Go up Force experiences in his first retain, “The Extensive Way Home,” and wrote poems, accordingly stories standing a different, “The Hero.”
In 1950, operate was blacklisted, and run dried location. But herbaceous border 1960, his adaptation mention John Hersey “The Wall,” about Socialism terror unveil the Warsaw ghetto, was produced link Broadway.
He won a 1966 Emmy broadsheet “Eagle enfold a Cage” and went on want write TV series much as “The Adams Chronicles”, “Rich Male, Poor Man” and “The Orphan Train.”
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One of the most fascinating “lost” aspects of US radio history can be found where folk music, radical politics, and the radio feature converge. The ballad opera was one variant of the radio feature, a textual form largely forgotten in the US, though it persists as a highly-regarded tradition in other countries: basically a dramatized documentary, with music playing a key role. Current shows like This American Life and Radiolab owe much to the feature tradition. The ballad opera emerged in 1939 with Norman Corwin’s version of Earl Robinson’s verse cantata “Ballad for Americans” performed by Paul Robeson. Corwin had been working in the feature genre for some time, but it was when Robinson met Millard Lampell in 1942 that the ballad opera joined with the folk tradition to produce The Lonesome Train. Lampell was a singer-songwriter and a founding member of The Almanac Singers, along with Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, and Woody Guthrie. Advocating progressive politics through folk song, the group toured the country’s political hot spots, recording two albums in 1941. Lampell left the group in 1942 and collaborated with Robinson to write the lyrics for a folk-style ballad commemorating the progression of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train across the country.
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CHILDHOOD (1912–1931)
Okemah, Oklahoma
WOODY SEZ ~ "Okemah was one of the singingest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club and razor carryingest of our ranch towns and farm towns because it blossomed out into one of our first Oil Boom Towns."
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was born on July 14, 1912, in Okemah, Oklahoma. He was the second-born son of Charles and Nora Belle Guthrie. His father – a cowboy, land speculator, and local politician – taught Woody Western songs, Indian songs, and Scottish folk tunes. His Kansas-born mother, also musically inclined, had an equally profound effect on Woody.
Slightly built, with an extremely full and curly head of hair, Woody was a precocious and unconventional boy from the start. Always a keen observer of the world around him, the people, music and landscape he was exposed to made lasting impressions on him.
During his early years in Oklahoma, Woody experienced the first of a series of immensely tragic personal losses. With the accidental death of his older sister Clara, the family's financial ruin, and the institutionalization and eventual loss of his mother, Woody's family and home life was forever