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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.
Almanac members Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie began playing together informally in 1940 or 1941. Pete Seeger and Guthrie had met at Will Geer's Grapes of Wrath Evening, a benefit for displaced migrant workers, in March 1940. That year, Seeger joined Guthrie on a trip to Texas and California to visit Guthrie's relatives.
Over the years, it became a popular protest song. As an activist himself, Norton said he “admired [Seeger] enormously” and felt an “alignment” with him, especially when he was in his early ...
In 1940, Lee Hays and Pete Seeger co-founded the Almanac Singers, which – along with American folk songs and ballads – promoted peace and isolationism in the years preceding World War II, working with the Communist Party-backed American Peace Mobilization (APM). The Almanacs featured many songs opposing entry into the war by the U.S.
He also meets folk legend Pete Seeger (Edward Norton) and ... a large part of his dialogue in that scene comes from an extremely early radio interview he did in 1962. ... and Rotolo died in 2011 ...
Edward Norton plays Pete Seeger, a fellow musician and early mentor for Dylan. Norton, left, in "A Complete Unknown" and Seeger, right, in 1963. Searchlight Pictures; Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ...
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 ...
1 Early years. 2 The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. ... Steppenwolf, Simon & Garfunkel, The Hollies, The Who, and even Pete Seeger were showcased on the show, ...