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From the newsroom: Reflecting on 'Songs of the Humpback Whale' five decades since its release

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Team Common is taking some time off to rest and recover over the holidays. In the meantime, we’re sharing some of our favorite stories from WBUR’s newsroom in 2022. The album “Songs of the Humpback Whale” hit record stores five decades ago, energizing the nascent Save the Whales movement and helped push Congress to pass the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

When the album “Songs of the Humpback Whale” first hit record stores five decades ago, it energized the Save the Whales movement and helped push Congress to pass the Marine Mammal Protection Act. To mark the 50th anniversary of that landmark act, WBUR’s Barbara Moran spoke with the album's creator about its influence on the environmental movement.

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