Talking Union is a 1941 album by the Almanac Singers

Almanac Singers

The Almanac Singers were a group of folk musicians who, as their name indicates, specialized in topical songs, especially songs connected with the labor movement...

: Millard Lampell

Millard Lampell

Millard Lampell was an American movie and television screenwriter who first became publicly known as a member of the Almanac Singers in the 1940s....

, Lee Hays and Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger

Peter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer and was an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead...

. It was selected by the Library of Congress

Library of Congress

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 as a 2010 addition to the National Recording Registry

National Recording Registry

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, which selects recordings annually that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Track listing

Track	Song Title	By
1.	All I Want	Jim Garland
2.	Get Thee Behind Me, Satan	Lampell, Hays, Seeger
3.	Talking Union	Lampell, Hays, Seeger
4.	Union Maid Union Maid "Union Maid" is a union song written by Woody Guthrie in response to a request for a union song from a female point of view. Along with "Talking Union", this song was one of the many pro-union songs written by Guthrie during his time as a member of the Almanac Singers...	Woody Guthrie Woody Guthrie Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
5.	Union Train	Hays
6.	Which Side Are You On	Florence Reece Florence Reece Florence Reece was an American social activist, poet, and folksong writer. Born in Sharps Chapel, Tennessee, the daughter and wife of coal miners, she is best known for the song, "Which Side Are You On?" written in 1931 during a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in which her husband,...

1955 reissue

In 1955 the album was rereleased on the Smithsonian Folkways

Smithsonian Folkways

Smithsonian Folkways is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution. It is a part of the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, located at Capital Gallery in downtown Washington, D.C. The label was founded in 1987 after the family of Moses Asch, founder of Folkways...

 label as The Original Talking Union & Other Union Songs, expanded with seven songs by Pete Seeger and Chorus (comprising side A). The track listing for this release is:

1. "We Shall Not Be Moved"
2. "Roll the Union On"
3. "Casey Jones
   Casey Jones
   John Luther Jones was an American railroad engineer from Jackson, Tennessee, who worked for the Illinois Central Railroad...
   
    (The Union Scab)"
4. "Miner's Lifeguard"
5. "Solidarity Forever
   Solidarity Forever
   "Solidarity Forever", written by Ralph Chaplin in 1915, is perhaps the most famous union anthem. It is sung to the tune of "John Brown's Body" and is inspired by "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". Although it was written as a song for the Industrial Workers of the World , other union movements,...
   
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6. "Join the Union"
7. "Hold the Fort"
8. "Get Thee Behind Me, Satan"
9. "Union Maid
   Union Maid
   "Union Maid" is a union song written by Woody Guthrie in response to a request for a union song from a female point of view. Along with "Talking Union", this song was one of the many pro-union songs written by Guthrie during his time as a member of the Almanac Singers...
   
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10. "I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister (All I Want)"
11. "Talking Union"
12. "Union Train"
13. "Which Side Are You On?
    Which Side Are You On?
    "Which Side Are You On?" is a song written by Florence Reece in 1931. Reece was the wife of Sam Reece, a union organizer for the United Mine Workers in Harlan County, Kentucky. In 1931, the miners of that region were locked in a bitter and violent struggle with the mine owners. In an attempt to...
    
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