In my opinion, he is one of the greatest folk singers that ever picked up a guitar or banjo. I don't know if there is a thread for Pete Seeger, but maybe it's time to start another one. He was in a group called The Weavers who unfortunately were not liked very much by the right wing establishment. When the group started to take off, they were frowned upon and their music wasn't made available to the general public. Pete Seeger was blacklisted from performing on tv. This is probably the first time that he made it on to commercial tv. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kajnEIQGINw"]YouTube - Pete Seeger - Wimoweh & Flowers Gone I hope you have some fond memories that you can add. PAX
With the Weavers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gVTfT3tJAY"]YouTube - Pete Seeger & The Weavers - Wimoweh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh1b2YzC1uo"]YouTube - If i had a Hammer - Pete Seeger and the Weavers PAX
I had never heard of Pete Seeger until Bruce Springsteen's Seeger Sessions, excellent music.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxKy1_c6DeM"]YouTube - Pete Seeger - The Erie Canal / Low Bridge
If I Had A Hammer Where Have all the Flowers Gone Little Boxes Turn Turn Turn Two years before he was born, six black soldiers were lynched returning from WWI, for wearing their uniforms. And he sang at the inaugural of the first black Presdent. "He sings all the verses, all the time. Especially the ones that we'd like to leave out of our history as a people. ... He would have the audacity and the courage to sing in the voice of the people. And despite Pete's somewhat benign grandfatherly appearance, he is a creature of a stubborn, defiant and nasty optimism. ... At 90, he remains a stealth dagger throught the heart of our country's illusions about itself..."Bruce Springsteen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3SNvzty2fs"]YouTube - Johnny Cash Show - Worried Man Blues 2 [Pete Seeger] Its songs like this that got him blacklisted. Well, that and his membership in the Communist Party USA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VucczIg98Gw"]YouTube - Pete Seeger - What Did You Learn In School? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iAIM02kv0g"]YouTube - pete seeger which side are you on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La21jYGIQ8k"]YouTube - Pete Seeger Little Boxes But he didn't forget the fun songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqTRpH-7bOM"]YouTube - The Crawdad Song - The Weavers - (Lyrics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcbqCssiBUc"]YouTube - Pete Seeger/Arlo Guthrie - You gotta walk that lonesome valley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgzl1Sai4Y0&feature=related"]YouTube - Pete Seeger - I'm gonna be an engineer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXqTf8DU6a0&feature=related"]YouTube - Pete Seeger/ Where Have All The Flowers Gone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ5v651bQ1o"]YouTube - Tzena, Tzena, Tzena - The Weavers - (Lyrics) THIS is what Pete was about. The singer (his voice showing its age) passing it forward. Nobody stopped him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzeE238nDR8"]YouTube - Pete Seeger Sings New Choruses of This Land is Your Land Damn, he left us some big shoes to fill. (Don't ever forget Woodie's last two verses.)
This was definitely one of the most commonly sung protest songs of the day. I sang it numerous times myself and it still has a warm spot in my heart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhnPVP23rzo&feature=related"]YouTube - Pete Seeger - We shall overcome PAX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VucczIg98Gw&feature=related"]YouTube - Pete Seeger - What Did You Learn In School?‏ One of my favorites. One of the greatest Ironic folk songs of all time. Love it.:2thumbsup: EDIT: my apologies to MikeE, didn't see your post.
Pete seeger there is so much to say about this great man and as well as the weavers... Pete seeger and the weavers ARE america to me
Not to forget his incredibly talented sister Peggy, who along with her husband Ewan produced some absolutely fantastic work, and her daughter (pete's niece) Kirsty Macall! Talented family. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXYPb0rrwbA&feature=related
Pete Seeger is one of those rare elemental americans. He has been simultaneously alienated and embraced as a public figure. He stuck his neck out for the civil rights movement, for poor people, for the working class, for labor - he was a victim of McCarthyism and paid a tremendous price personally for it - and all of this by singing and playing old songs on an instrument that has come to represent America, but came into existence in the New World via Africa and the minds, hearts and memories of slaves. The banjo really is the perfect allegory for America - in the hands of musicians like Pete Seeger.
