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Actor Alan Alda on Singing and Science

Alda was the star of the TV show M*A*S*H, for which he won Emmys for acting, writing, and directing. He's in Woody Allen's latest "Everyone Says I Love You," and hosts Scientific American Frontiers on PBS.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, February 18, 1997: Interview with Alan Alda; Review of the album "The Almanac Singers: Their Complete General Recordings."
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A New Collection Captures the Beginning of Urban Folk

Critic Milo Miles reviews the new collection by the Almanac Singers, an early urban folk group that included Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Pete Hawes, Millard Lampell and Pete Seeger. The CD is "The Almanac Singers: Their Complete General Recordings" (on MCA).

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