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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.
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.
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.
The lead-off singles "If I Had a Hammer" and "Lemon Tree" reached numbers 10 and 35 respectively on the Billboard Pop Singles chart. It was the group's biggest selling studio album, eventually certified Double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for U.S. sales of more than two million copies.
"If I Had a Hammer" is the sixth episode of the fourth season of the American crime drama television series Dexter. It is the 42nd overall episode of the series and was written by producer Lauren Gussis, and was directed by Romeo Tirone. It originally aired on Showtime on November 1, 2009.
Armie Hammer is sharing insight into his relationship with his mother, Dru Hammer, and how religion led to a falling out between the pair. Hammer, 38, and Dru, 62, openly discussed the ups and ...
Caleb Hammer gets placed in the hot seat for once. ... He had racked up some serious debt, including car and credit card debt. Plus, he’d taken out a $15,000 private student loan with “massive ...
The trio canceled several dates of their summer 2007 tour, as Travers had to undergo a second surgery. [17] She was unable to perform on the trio's tour in mid-2009 because of the effects of leukemia, but Yarrow and Stookey performed the scheduled dates as a duo, calling the show "Peter & Paul Celebrate Mary and 5 Decades of Friendship".