Millions of radio listeners heard a voice from the Cape Canaveral control room say: "This is it,Alan Shepard,there's no turning back.

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In any case,John and Alan Lomax were very dedicated to locating these what they thought of as folk geniuses.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

But Alan also collected recordings himself in other parts of the country New England, New York and the Midwest.

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Other musicians like Harry Belafonte and the Kingston Trio also recorded songs for which Alan Lomax shared in the copyright.

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"The Lomaxes,John and Alan, thrfather and son team and then Bess to a certain extent worked at the Library of Congress.

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A month later, on the morning of May fifth, American Navy pilot Alan Shepard crawled into his little Mercury spacecraft.

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They included Bess' brother Alan as well as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Baldwin "Butch" Hawes, who became her husband.

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And when Alan was added,he says, all three shared the money, so Lead Belly got only a third.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

His heart doctor,Alan Schwartz, said the former president had been feeling pressure in his chest for several days.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

The copyrights to these songs were held not only by the singers but also by his son Alan.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

His son Alan soon joined him, and continued collecting music after his father died in nineteen forty-eight.

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It was a musical version of the famous novel about Africa, "Cry,the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Alan Greenspan, who would later become chairman of the Federal Reserve, was part of this group.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

Alan Bersin will supervise efforts to secure the border with Mexico and to slow illegal immigration.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

Barbara Klein tells us about the latest records from Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and Alan Jackson.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

The author notes that Alan Lomax apparently claimed composer credit on about eight hundred songs.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

Some observers have criticized Alan Lomax and his father for earning money from the traditional music they collected, including from black musicians in the South.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

Our program was written and produced by Brianna Blake, with reporting by Alan Silverman.

VOA: special.2010.12.13

They were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper,John Glenn,Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra,Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Space officials announced that astronaut Alan Shepard would become the first American in space.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

We leave you with Alan Jackson and Lee Ann Womack performing a love song.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

In the nineteen fifties Alan Lomax traveled to Europe where he collected folk music.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

It was used in nineteen sixty-one during the flight of astronaut Alan Shepard.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Alan Shepard made only a fifteen-minute flight in the little one-man Mercury spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.07.08