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"If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)" is a protest song written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays. It was written in 1949 in support of the Progressive movement , and was first recorded by the Weavers , a folk music quartet composed of Seeger, Hays, Ronnie Gilbert , and Fred Hellerman .
If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle is a 1998 compilation album by Pete Seeger and was released on Smithsonian Folkways as SFW40096.. This collection is a compilation of 24 songs selected from hundreds released on Folkways Records in the late 1950s and 1960s and two new songs recorded especially for this collection.
"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.
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.
The World of Pete Seeger: 1974 Columbia The Essential Pete Seeger: 1978 Vanguard: We Shall Overcome: The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert: 1989 Columbia We Shall Overcome [80] Folk Music of the World: 1991 Legacy [81] Clearwater Classics: 1993 Sony [82] A Link in the Chain: September 3, 1996 Legacy [83] Best of Pete Seeger: September 30, 1997 ...
He had an enormous effect of inspiration on many people.” Norton hopes people who see A Complete Unknown will learn about “the span and depth of [Seeger’s] commitment to social causes across ...
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 ...
The songs on the album include "Kisses Sweeter than Wine", made famous by The Weavers, "If I Had a Hammer", and a multi-religious "Old Time Religion". The duo also perform three of Woody Guthrie's songs. Some tracks, rather than songs, are Guthrie or Pete telling stories or thinking out loud.