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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.
"Turn! Turn! Turn!", also known as or subtitled "To Everything There Is a Season", is a song written by Pete Seeger in 1959. [1] The lyrics – except for the title, which is repeated throughout the song, and the final two lines – consist of the first eight verses of the third chapter of the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes. The song was originally released in 1962 as "To Everything There Is a ...
A Pete Seeger Concert: 1953: Folkways [55] With Voices Together We Sing: 1956 [56] Hootenanny at Carnegie Hall: 1960 [57] Pete Seeger at the Village Gate with Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon [58] Sing Out with Pete! 1961 [59] Pete Seeger at the Village Gate, Vol. 2: 1962 [60] The Bitter and the Sweet: Recorded In Person At The Bitter End ...
“There were people who — when I told them I was going to play Seeger — they got tears in their eyes. He had an enormous effect of inspiration on many people.”
My father, Irwin Silber, co-founded Sing Out! magazine in 1951, along with his close colleague, Pete Seeger. By the late 1950s, Sing Out! had become the go-to magazine for countless folkies—like ...
"Pete Seeger definitely was an evangelist for folk music," Mangold notes. "With a young musician who he saw having such immense talent as a folk singer, he wanted to know whether they were on the ...
The entire backfile of People's Songs was microfilmed in the 1980s by Clearwater Publishing Inc. from Pete Seeger's personal copy, including his personal commentaries. Clearwater Publishing (not related to the Sloop Clearwater) was acquired by Congressional Information Service in 1987, which was a subsidiary of Reed-Elsevier, an international ...
Edward Norton supplies the film with a gentle Pete Seeger, someone used to leading audiences in peaceful, utopian song but increasingly mystified by this newcomer who sharpens the folk movement ...