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Jackie Washington Landron is a an Afro-Puerto Rican folksinger, songwriter, and actor based in New York City. He is not to be confused with the Jackie Washington who is a blues and jazz performer in Canada. Nor is either of them to be confused with the fictional, female Jackie Washington.

Born Juan Candido Washington y Landron on June 2, 1938, he was signed at nineteen to Vanguard records, and studied at Emerson College in Boston. As Jackie Washington, he was one of the stars of the Cambridge/Boston folk scene in the early and mid 1960's, recording four albums for Vanguard—Jackie Washington, Jackie Washington/2, Live at Club 47, and Morning Song; this last album consisted entirely of original compositions and was his first with a band. His version of the traditional English nonsense song "Nottamun Town" was the tune and arrangement used by Bob Dylan as the basis for "Masters of War". Washington taught Joan Baez "There But For Fortune" by Phil Ochs, which song provided Baez with a single that brought her her first appearance on the singles chart. (You can tell she learned it from him because he had made a lyric change; where Ochs had written "whose face has grown pale", Jackie, being black, had substituted "whose life has grown stale"—which is how Baez sings it.)

He relocated to Manhattan to pursue acting under the name of Jack Landron. One of his earliest performances was in a 1966 National Education Television production of Tennessee Williams' Ten Blocks on Camino Real with Lotte Lenya and Martin Sheen.

Landron is a member of the board of the New York Screen Actors Guild.

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 '''Jackie Washington Landron''' is a an Afro-Puerto Rican folksinger, songwriter, and actor based in New York City. He is not to be confused with the Jackie Washington who is a blues and jazz performer in Canada. Nor is either of them to be confused with the fictional, female Jackie Washington.
 Born Juan Candido Washington y Landron on June 2, 1938, he was signed at nineteen to Vanguard records, and studied at Emerson College in Boston. As Jackie Washington, he was one of the stars of the Cambridge/Boston folk scene in the early and mid 1960's, recording four albums for Vanguard—''Jackie Washington'', ''Jackie Washington/2'', ''Live at Club 47'', and ''Morning Song''; this last album consisted entirely of original compositions and was his first with a band. His version of the traditional English nonsense song "Nottamun Town" was the tune and arrangement used by Bob Dylan as the basis for "Masters of War". Washington taught Joan Baez "There But For Fortune" by Phil Ochs, which song provided Baez with a single that brought her her first appearance on the singles chart. (You can tell she learned it from him because he had made a lyric change; where Ochs had written "whose face has grown pale",  Jackie, being black, had substituted "whose life has grown stale"—which is how Baez sings it.)
-He relocated to Manhattan to pursue acting under the name of Jack Landron. One of his earliest performances was in a National Education Television production of Tennessee Williams' "Ten Blocks on Camino Real" with Lotte Lenya and Martin Sheen.
+He relocated to Manhattan to pursue acting under the name of Jack Landron. One of his earliest performances was in a 1966 National Education Television production of Tennessee Williams' ''Ten Blocks on Camino Real'' with Lotte Lenya and Martin Sheen.
 Landron is a member of the board of the New York Screen Actors Guild.
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