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"Little Boxes" is a song written and composed by Malvina Reynolds in 1962. The song was first released by her friend, Pete Seeger , in 1963, and became his only charting single in January 1964. The song is a social satire [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] about the development of suburbia and associated conformist middle-class attitudes.
The song appeared on the compilation album Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits (1967) released by Columbia Records as CS 9416. Pete Seeger's recording from the Columbia album The Bitter and the Sweet (November 1962), CL 1916, produced by John H. Hammond was also released as a Columbia Hall of Fame 45 single as 13-33088 backed by "Little Boxes" in ...
Reynolds' song "Little Boxes" was used as the theme for Showtime's TV series Weeds (2005–2012). The TV show Big Sky featured the song "Little Boxes" at the end of the episode aptly titled "Little Boxes". In 2020, most of the second verse of her one-minute ditty "Place to Be," as recorded by her, was used as the sound for a Zillow commercial.
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer-songwriter, musician and social activist. He was a fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, and had a string of hit records in the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene," which topped the charts for 14 weeks in 1950.
'Little Boxes' explores the ideas of identity, growing up, and defining who you are even if the people raising you don't seem to understand. 'Little Boxes' is the can't-miss Tribeca Film Festival ...
Seeger selected the eleven songs for the album from an anthology of folk songs for children that had been published by his stepmother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, in her 1948 book titled American Folk Songs For Children, ISBN 0-385-15788-6, a book of musical notations and notated guides.
Pete Seeger Now: 1968 Columbia [44] Pete Seeger Young vs. Old: 1969 [45] Rainbow Race: 1971 [46] Banks of Marble and Other Songs: 1974 [47] Pete Seeger and Brother Kirk Visit Sesame Street: Sesame Street [48] Fifty Sail on Newburgh Bay: 1976 Folkways [49] Circles and Seasons: 1979 Warner Bros. [50] A Fish That's a Song: 1990 [51] Pete: April 16 ...
Dangerous Songs!? is a studio album by Pete Seeger and was released in 1966 on the Columbia Records label. ... Mary Quite Contrary/ Little Jack Horner" ...