Tom Glazer

After his father's death, Glazer grew up in Philadelphia, completed night courses while working at Macy's and attended City College of New York before joining the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., where Alan Lomax mentored him and his amateur performances led to a Town Hall debut in 1943. He wrote socially aware folk ballads such as “A Dollar Ain’t a Dollar Anymore” and “Talking Inflation B… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources