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<text id=91TT1743>
<title>
Aug. 05, 1991: Died:Earl Robinson
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Aug. 05, 1991 Was It Worth It?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
MILESTONES, Page 61
</hdr><body>
<p> DIED. Earl Robinson, 81, songwriter who penned ballads
extolling the working class; of injuries suffered in a car
accident; in Seattle. Paul Robeson and later Joan Baez memorably
recorded Robinson's most enduring ballad, Joe Hill, about the
Utah labor organizer. The House I Live In, sung by Frank Sinatra
in a short film celebrating America's ethnic and religious
diversity, won an Academy Award in 1945.
</p>
</body></article>
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