Pete Seeger - History Page - Raymond's Folk Song Page

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	Sep 17 2009, 9:46 AM EDT	raymondcrooke		edit	24 words added 18 words deleted
Change: "TheThe Hammer Song,"Song, was first recorded by The Weavers. It did not achieve popular success probably because the world was not ready for such overt political commentary in their music. It did much better when covered by Peter, Paul and Mary in 1962, when View changes from previous version. (Word count: 795)
	Sep 5 2009, 12:15 PM EDT	raymondcrooke		edit	1 word added 1 word deleted
Change: cyclic song. The song has been recorded many times, including versions by The Kingston Trio (1961), Marlene Dietrich in French (1982), English and German, Harry Belafonte (1966), Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez and Dolly Parton (2005).My rendition is cominghere and the lyrics are here. View changes from previous version. (Word count: 795)
	Sep 1 2009, 11:48 AM EDT	raymondcrooke		edit	13 words added 2 words deleted
Change: cyclic song. The song has been recorded many times, including versions by The Kingston Trio (1961), Marlene Dietrich in French (1982), English and German, Harry Belafonte (1966), Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez and Dolly Parton (2005).My rendition is coming and the lyrics are here. View changes from previous version. (Word count: 795)
	Sep 1 2009, 9:17 AM EDT	raymondcrooke		edit	35 words added
Change: by Joe Hickerson to make a cyclic song. The song has been recorded many times, including versions by The Kingston Trio (1961), Marlene Dietrich in French (1982), English and German, Harry Belafonte (1966), Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez and Dolly Parton (2005). View changes from previous version. (Word count: 786)
	Sep 1 2009, 8:59 AM EDT	raymondcrooke		edit	79 words added 1 widget added 1 widget deleted
Change: Pete Seeger wrote the first three verses of this song in1961, after reading the following lines from a Cossack folk song, mentioned in Mikhail Sholokhov's View changes from previous version. (Word count: 751)
	Mar 2 2009, 9:21 AM EST	raymondcrooke		edit
Change: There were only format changes (bold, italics, etc.) in this version. See this version for details. (Word count: 669)
	Nov 5 2008, 5:53 AM EST	raymondcrooke		edit	1 word added 5 words deleted
Change: 1962 to record it,1962, on his album, The Bitter and the Sweet." Here is Pete Seeger talking about how he wrote the song. Here is Judy Collins on Pete Seeger's 1960s television show and by Nina Simone. It was also a big hit for The Byrds. View changes from previous version. (Word count: 669)
	Oct 17 2008, 6:26 AM EDT	raymondcrooke		edit	2 words added 1 word deleted
Change: renditions.rendition. Here are the lyrics. Turn! Turn! Turn!The full title of this song is "Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There is a Season)". It is adapted entirely from the the Book of Ecclesiastes View changes from previous version. (Word count: 673)
	Oct 17 2008, 6:09 AM EDT	raymondcrooke		edit	177 words added
Change: Pete Seeger's album "God Bless The Grass" (1966) was probably the first to deal with environmental issues. It featured several songs by Malvina Reynolds and included this song by Pete Seeger himself. It is also known as "The Hudson River Song".Here is a recording of Pete Seeger singing it View changes from previous version. (Word count: 673)
	Oct 12 2008, 7:14 AM EDT	raymondcrooke		edit	26 words added 1 widget added
Change: An excellent documentary from PBS about Pete Seeger. American Masters: The Power of Song.Part 1 is above. Here are Part 2 and Part 3.If I Had a Hammer (Pete Seeger and Lee Hays)Written in 1949, this song, also known View changes from previous version. (Word count: 500)
	Sep 3 2008, 10:03 AM EDT	raymondcrooke		edit	5 words added
Change: Here is my rendition. You can see the lyrics here. My Dirty StreamHere are the lyrics. Turn! Turn! Turn!Here are the lyrics. Waist Deep In The Big Muddy Pete Seeger wrote this song in 1967 about View changes from previous version. (Word count: 475)
	Aug 29 2008, 4:38 AM EDT	raymondcrooke		edit	181 words added 1 word deleted
Change: and Sam Cooke. It has been translated into many languages, including a French version, "Si j'avais un marteau," by Claude François (1963), a watered-down Italian View changes from previous version. (Word count: 471)
	May 29 2008, 3:04 AM EDT	raymondcrooke		edit	272 words added 2 words deleted
Change: For example, Seeger sangthe song on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967, but it was edited out as CBS objected to the blacklisted Seeger's View changes from previous version. (Word count: 289)
	May 29 2008, 3:01 AM EDT	raymondcrooke		edit	22 words added
Change: My Dirty StreamHere are the lyrics.Turn! Turn! Turn!Here are the lyrics.Waist Deep in the Big Muddy View changes from previous version. (Word count: 20)
	May 29 2008, 2:26 AM EDT	raymondcrooke	Moved from: Singer Songwriters	move	No content added or deleted.
Change: Moved by raymondcrooke May 29 2008, 2:26 AM EDT
	May 29 2008, 2:25 AM EDT	raymondcrooke		create	No content added or deleted.
Change: Created by raymondcrooke May 29 2008, 2:25 AM EDT for: no reason given