Committee (SNCC) in 1960. In the PBS American Masters episode "Pete Seeger: The Power of Song", Seeger said it was he who changed the lyric from the traditional...
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folk songs made popular by activist folk musician Pete Seeger. Using songs written by others, Seeger focused on popularizing and promoting the ethic of...
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Award-winning documentary Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, released through PBS in 2007. In 1966, Seeger and her husband, folk-singer Pete Seeger, co-founded the...
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discography of Pete Seeger, an American folk singer, consists of 52 studio albums, 23 compilation albums, 22 live albums, and 31 singles. Seeger's musical career...
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Greenwich Village area of New York City originally consisting of Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman. Founded in 1948, the group sang...
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musicologist; he was also the uncle of folk musicians Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, and Mike Seeger. He is lauded for the poem "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"...
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formed in November 1948 by Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman, and Ronnie Gilbert of People's Songs, of which Seeger had been president and Hays executive...
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folk singers Pete Seeger (1919–2014), Peggy Seeger (b. 1935), and Mike Seeger (1933–2009); and brother of the World War I poet Alan Seeger (1888–1916)...
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mouth harp, mandolin, dobro, jaw harp, and pan pipes. Seeger, a half-brother of Pete Seeger, produced more than 30 documentary recordings, and performed...
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John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers, who is Pete Seeger's brother-in-law, states that Seeger wanted to lower the volume of the band because the...
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (category Pete Seeger songs)
American singer-songwriter Pete Seeger in 1955. Inspired lyrically by the traditional Cossack folk song "Koloda-Duda", Seeger borrowed an Irish melody for...
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ailing Woody Guthrie. He is embraced by the New York folk scene (Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and others) who recognize his talent. He finds gigs in downtown...
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Sharp and Karpeles (1917), in References below), and the version by Pete Seeger that greatly popularized the song in modern times (see below) is also...
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actor Alan Arkin) and Earl Robinson (music). It was first recorded by Pete Seeger featuring an African-American child, in 1956 from the album Love Songs...
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Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2007) is a documentary film about the life and music of the folk singer Pete Seeger. The film, which won an Emmy Award...
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Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Hunter, Harry Chapin, John Mellencamp, Pete Seeger, Andy Irvine, Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Jeff...
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Guantanamera (category Pete Seeger songs)
international hit. The song has notably been covered or interpreted by Pete Seeger, Celia Cruz, Compay Segundo and Wyclef Jean. The music for the song is...
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Rodríguez-Seeger (born 1972) is an American contemporary folk musician. A founder of The Mammals, he is the grandson of folk musician Pete Seeger. He plays...
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Administration. One of her brothers was Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger was her half-brother. Poet Alan Seeger was her uncle. One of her first recordings was...
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Turn! Turn! Turn! (category Pete Seeger songs)
or subtitled "To Everything There Is a Season", is a song written by Pete Seeger in 1959. The lyrics – except for the title, which is repeated throughout...
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Guts". She is the daughter of filmmaker Toshi Seeger and Pete Seeger, a legendary American folk musician. Seeger achieved some prominence in 1968 when she...
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Grammy Award for Best Historical Album (redirect from Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection)
(compilation producers) Pete Reiniger (mastering engineer) Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection · Smithsonian Folkways Pete Seeger The Girl from Chickasaw...
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We Shall Overcome is a 1963 album by Pete Seeger. It was recorded live at his concert at Carnegie Hall, New York City, on June 8, 1963, and was released...
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We Shall Overcome (category Pete Seeger songs)
organizers). She taught it to many others, including People's Songs director Pete Seeger, who included it in his repertoire, as did many other activist singers...
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John Brown's Body (section Version of Pete Seeger)
Brown has brightened into day, And his soul is marching on. (Chorus) Pete Seeger, an American folk musician, recorded a version of John Brown's Body in...
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If I Had a Hammer (category Songs written by Pete Seeger)
"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...
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The Bells of Rhymney (category Pete Seeger songs)
the folk singer Pete Seeger, which consists of Seeger's own music accompanying words written by the Welsh poet Idris Davies. Seeger first released a...
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artists have contributed to the Smithsonian Folkways collection, including Pete Seeger, Ella Jenkins, Woody Guthrie, and Lead Belly. Famous songs include "This...
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founder George Wein, music manager Albert Grossman, and folk singers Pete Seeger, Theodore Bikel, and Oscar Brand. It was one of the first modern music...
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activist, wife of Pete Seeger; 4 children Peter Seeger (1944–1945), died while Pete was deployed overseas Daniel Seeger Mika Seeger American ceramic artist;...
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