He performed the song with Pete Seeger and the other Almanac Singers.
Their Complete General Recordings is a 1996 album of 1941 recordings by the Almanac Singers.
In 1940 he began singing with the Almanac Singers.
Songs for John Doe was the 1941 debut album and first released product of the Almanac Singers, an influential early folk music group.
The Almanac Singers felt strongly that songs could help achieve these goals.
It is in the context of this social movement that the story of the Almanac Singers, which formed in early 1941, ought to be seen.
The following year, it was recorded by the Almanac Singers in a version that gained a wide audience.
Together the trio began to sing at left-wing functions and to call themselves the Almanac Singers.
The Almanac Singers - Talking Union, in 1941.
Several historians trace "Pittsburgh Town" to the Almanac Singers' 1941 national tour.