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Peter Seeger was an American 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, especially their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, Se…
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Born 3 May 1919 · Died 27 January 2014 · Q244441
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Released album “The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection”.
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Died 2014-01-27.
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“All songwriters are links in a chain.”
Released album “Sing Out America! The Best of Pete Seeger”.
Released album “The Singer And The Song”.
Seeger performed at Farm Aid at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, New York
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One month widowed, Seeger was in New York City for the 400-year commemoration of the Two Row Wampum Treaty between the Iroquois and the Dutch
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To an enthusiastic audience of around two hundred people, and featured many of the musicians from the project (among them Samite, Dar Williams, Dave Eggar, and Richie Stearns of the Horse Flies and Natalie Merchant) perf
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Hachette Audio Books issued an audiobook titled Pete Seeger: The Storm King; Stories, Narratives, Poems
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Released album “If I Had a Hammer: The Definitive Collection”.
Seeger performed, along with Harry Belafonte, Jackson Browne, Common, and others, at a concert to bring awareness to the 37-year-long ordeal of Native American activist Leonard Peltier
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Released album “Pete Remembers Woody”.
Released album “A More Perfect Union”.
At age 92, Pete Seeger was part of a solidarity march with Occupy Wall Street to Columbus Circle in New York City
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Released album “Buffalo Girls”.
Released album “Tomorrow's Children”.
Still active at the age of 91, Seeger co-wrote and performed the song "God's Counting on Me, God's Counting on You" with Lorre Wyatt, commenting on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
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Seeger made his first appearance at the 52nd Monterey Jazz Festival, which was particularly notable because the festival does not normally feature folk artists
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At the Clearwater Concert, dozens of musicians gathered in New York at Madison Square Garden to celebrate Seeger's 90th birthday (which was later televised on PBS during the summer), ranging from Dave Matthews, John Mell
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Released album “American Favorite Ballads, Vols. 1-5”.
Seeger and his grandson Tao Rodríguez-Seeger joined Bruce Springsteen and the crowd in singing Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" in the finale of Barack Obama's inaugural concert in Washington, D
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Released album “At 89”.
The 89-year-old singer-activist, once banned from commercial TV, made a rare national TV appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, singing "Take It From Dr
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Released album “American Folk Anthology”.
Awarded Schneider Family Book Award (2007).
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Pete Seeger, his sister Peggy, his brothers Mike and John, his wife Toshi, and other family members spoke and performed at a symposium and concert sponsored by the American Folklife Center in honor of the Seeger family,
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Released album “American Industrial Ballads… and More”.
Released album “American Favorite Ballads, Volume 2”.
Kitama Jackson is a documentary filmmaker who was associate producer of the 2007 PBS documentary Pete Seeger: The Power of Song.
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Released album “Talking Union”.
Released album “Music From Pete Seeger: The Power Of Song Vol. 1”.
In response to criticism from historian Ron Radosh, a former Trotskyist who now writes for the conservative National Review, Seeger wrote a song condemning Stalin, "Big Joe Blues":
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Released album “The Legend”.
Released album “Brothers & Sisters”.
Released album “Canciones de las Brigadas Internacionales”.
David Boaz—Voice of America and NPR commentator and president of the libertarian Cato Institute—wrote an opinion piece in The Guardian, entitled "Stalin's Songbird", in which he excoriated The New Yorker and The New York
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Released album “Folk Songs, Ballads and Banjo”.
Released album “Folk Music of the World”.
Released album “We Shall Not Be Moved”.
Released album “The First Rays of Protest in the Twentieth Century”.
Released album “If I Had a Hammer (Original Recordings 1944-1950)”.
Released album “Which Side Are You On?”.
Released album “Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Volume 3”.
Pete Seeger was a participant in an anti-Iraq war protest
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Released album “Pete Seeger’s Greatest Hits”.
Released album “The Collection”.
About how he recalled his "objections" to the electric style, Seeger said:
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Awarded Library of Congress Living Legend (2000).
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Released album “Stories and Songs for Little Children”.
Released album “The Folk Singer”.
Released album “Headlines & Footnotes: A Collection of Topical Songs”.
“his humanistic and artistic work in defense of the environment and against racism”
Released album “If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle”.
Released album “The 'American Folk Song' Collection”.
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1996).
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Released album “Pete”.
Released album “Sing Out”.
Released album “A Link in the Chain”.
Released album “Concert: Folk Songs & Ballads”.
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1993).
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“Should I apologize for all this? I think so.”
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Released album “Darling Corey and Goofing-Off Suite”.
Released album “American Favorite Ballads”.
Released album “Traditional Christmas Carols”.
Released album “Folkways: A Vision Revisited”.
Released album “Carry It On: Songs of America's Working People”.
Released album “The Essential Pete Seeger”.
Seeger performed at a benefit concert for the 1982 demonstrations in Poland against the Polish government
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Pete Seeger performed in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Awarded Eugene V. Debs Award (1979).
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Released album “Circles & Seasons”.
Seeger joined American folk, blues, and jazz singer Barbara Dane at a rally in New York for striking coal miners
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Awarded Paul Robeson Award (1977).
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Seeger appeared at a fundraiser in Homestead, Pennsylvania
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Released album “Fifty Sail on Newburgh Bay”.
Released album “Visit Sesame Street”.
Released album “Banks of Marble and Other Songs”.
Released album “America's Balladeer”.
Released album “The World of Pete Seeger”.
Released album “Rainbow Race”.
After his similar performance in September 1967 was censored by CBS
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Released album “Birds Beasts Bugs And Little Fishes”.
Released album “Pete Seeger Sings Leadbelly”.
Released album “Pete Seeger Sings Woody Guthrie”.
Released album “Now”.
With his song "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy", about a captain—referred to in the lyrics as "the big fool"—who drowned while leading a platoon on maneuvers in Louisiana during World War II
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Released album “Freight Train”.
Released album “Abiyoyo and Other Story Songs for Children”.
Released album “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy & Other Love Songs”.
Seeger and his wife Toshi founded the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, a nonprofit organization based in Beacon, New York, that sought to protect the Hudson River and surrounding wetlands and waterways through advocacy and
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Released album “Dangerous Songs!?”.
Released album “God Bless the Grass”.
And 1966, produced by Seeger and his wife Toshi, with Sholom Rubinstein
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Released album “Little Boxes and Other Broadsides”.
Released album “Songs of the USA”.
Released album “Broadsides: Songs and Ballads”.
Released album “We Shall Overcome”.
Released album “The 12-String Guitar As Played By Leadbelly”.
Helped organize a landmark Carnegie Hall concert, featuring the youthful Freedom Singers, as a benefit for the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee
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Released album “Broadside Ballads, Volume 2”.
Released album “American Favorite Ballads: Songs And Tunes, Vol. 5”.
Released album “A Song For You And Me”.
Released album “Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Vol. 1: Songs of the Lincoln Brigade, Six Songs for Democracy”.
Released album “Gazette, Vol. 2”.
Released album “American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 4”.
The San Diego school board told him that he could not play a scheduled concert at a high school unless he signed an oath pledging that the concert would not be used to promote a communist agenda or an overthrow of the go
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This collection was re-issued by Moe Asch as one side of a Folkways LP called Songs of the Lincoln and International Brigades
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Released album “Rainbow Quest / Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”.
Released album “Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Fishes (Little and Big): Animal Folk Songs”.
Released album “Champlain Valley Songs”.
Released album “Folk Songs for Young People”.
Released album “Nonesuch and Other Folk Tunes”.
Released album “American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 3”.
Released album “American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 2”.
Released album “Gazette”.
Released album “Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry at Carnegie Hall”.
Released album “American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1”.
Released album “American Ballads”.
Seeger and his wife, Toshi, traveled to Port of Spain, Trinidad, to seek out information on the steel drum
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Released album “American Industrial Ballads”.
Released album “Love Songs for Friends & Foes”.
Seeger was subpoenaed to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
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“Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”
Released album “Goofing-Off Suite”.
And in a subsequent reunion tour, which produced a hit version of Merle Travis's "Sixteen Tons", as well as LPs of their concert performances
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Released album “The Folksinger's Guitar Guide”.
Released album “American Folk Songs for Children”.
Released album “Frontier Ballads”.
Released album “Frontier Ballads Volume I: Immigrants, The Trek”.
Released album “How To Play The 5-String Banjo”.
Released album “The Pete Seeger Sampler”.
At the peak of their popularity, when blacklisting prompted radio stations to refuse to play their records and all their bookings were canceled
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With the slogan "This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces It to Surrender", writing those words on every subsequent banjo he owned
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Released album “Darling Corey”.
And was covered by many other pop singers
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The Almanacs were reconstituted as the Weavers, named after the title of an 1892 play by Gerhart Hauptmann, about a workers' strike (which contained the lines "We'll stand it no more, come what may
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But remained friends with some who did not leave it, although he argued with them about it
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Seeger worked as the vocal instructor for the progressive City and Country School in Greenwich Village, New York
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Seeger wrote the first version of How to Play the Five-String Banjo, a book that sold over 100,000 copies in the 1962 edition and is credited as teaching folk musicians such as Jerry Gray of The Travellers to play the in
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Their first child, Peter Ōta Seeger, was born in 1944 and died at six months while Seeger was deployed overseas; Seeger never saw him.
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With Tom Glazer and Bess and Baldwin Hawes, he recorded an album of 78s called Songs of the Lincoln Battalion on Moe Asch's Stinson label
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After the United States and the Soviet Union had entered the war
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A year after the John Doe album's brief appearance (and disappearance), the FBI decided that the now-pro-war Almanacs were still endangering the war effort by subverting recruitment
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Joined the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), but left in 1949
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Released album “The Original Talking Union & Other Union Songs”.
With Millard Lampell and Arkansas singer and activist Lee Hays, was a topical group, designed to function as a singing newspaper promoting the industrial unionization movement, racial and religious inclusion, and other p
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While bombs were falling), performed by Ernst Busch and a chorus of members of the Thälmann Battalion, made up of volunteers from Germany
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At the age of 17, Pete Seeger joined the Young Communist League (YCL), then at the height of its influence
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Charles held various administrative positions in the federal government's Farm Resettlement program, the WPA's Federal Music Project (1938–1940) and the wartime Pan American Union
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Pete was selected to attend Camp Rising Sun (CRS), the George E
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Charles married his composition student and assistant, Ruth Crawford, now considered by many to be one of the most important modernist composers of the 20th century
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That Constance had opened a secret bank account in her own name, he became enraged and a series of separations and temporary reconciliations ensued
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Born 1919-05-03.
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At French Hospital in Chelsea, Manhattan in New York City
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Charles was hired to establish the music department at UC Berkeley, but was forced to resign in 1918 because of his outspoken pacifism during World War I
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