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21 unusual facts about Pete Seeger


Anne Hills

In 1998, she contributed renditions to tribute albums for Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs.

Barbara Seaman

Seaman, whose parents, Henry J. Rosner and Sophie Kimels, met at a Young People's Socialist League picnic, grew up in a politically progressive milieu (Pete Seeger sang at her nursery school when she was four years old).

Chris DeGeare

DeGeare's wife, Moraya, is a graduate student and the granddaughter of the late folk singer and activist, Pete Seeger.

Christian Bauman

Christian was frequently an opener for acts including Pete Seeger, Jack Hardy, John Gorka, Odetta, Cheryl Wheeler, and Livingston Taylor, at venues like Godfrey Daniels, Passim, Eddie's Attic, The Iron Horse, and Freight & Salvage.

Emanuel Vardi

They accepted Emanuel, but since the age limit was 16, he was sent to the Institute of Musical Art, where he studied under Constance Seeger, mother of folk singer Pete Seeger.

Ernest Medina

Medina is mentioned by name in the first stanza of Pete Seeger's Vietnam protest song "Last Train to Nuremberg" (1970).

Fred Holstein

After seeing a Pete Seeger concert he decided he wanted to study folk music.

Hally Wood

As a singer she had two solo albums in early 1950s (Stinson "Hally Wood Sings Texas Folksongs"; Elektra "Oh Lovely Appearance of Death"), appeared on several concert/compilation albums, sang in concerts with Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Jean Ritchie, & others in the NYC area, including a concert at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, December 21, 1957 with Sonny Terry and Dave Sears.

John Brown's Body

Len Chandler sang a song called "move on over" to the tune on Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest TV show.

John Handcox

His songs were later promoted by fellow protest songsters, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Joe Glazer.

Nanosonatas

Totally 56 Nanosonatas had been composed, afterwards, and dedicated to his families and friends, such as Elliott Carter and Pete Seeger.

Nanosonata No. 28 “It can be done!” (November 12. 2008) (To Elliott Carter and Pete Seeger)

Quicksand

Pete Seeger's song "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" mentions someone drowning after getting stuck in quicksand.

Samantha Bumgarner

Folksinger Pete Seeger attended Lunsford's festival in 1935 at the age of 16 in the company of his father, composer Charles Seeger, then working for the music division of the WPA, and his stepmother, noted modernist composer Ruth Crawford Seeger, and would have heard Bumgarner perform there.

Samuel W. Koster

Koster is mentioned by name in the first stanza of Pete Seeger's Vietnam protest song "Last Train to Nuremberg".

Sherman Wu

Sherman Wu is best known because of the song "The Ballad of Sherman Wu", which appeared on the Pete Seeger recording Gazette.

The Essential Byrds

#"Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season)" (Book of Ecclesiastes/Pete Seeger) – 3:51

United States v. Seeger

:This is about pacifism-related case that involved Daniel Seeger; for the First-Amendment- and HUAC-related case Seeger v. United States, see Pete Seeger.

William Mandel

The book received critical acclaim from notables, including author and senior editor of The Black Scholar, Robert L. Allen; renowned musician and activist Pete Seeger; and the internationally respected poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Winnsboro, South Carolina

The traditional blues song Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues was written about working in a cotton mill in Winnsboro; the song has been sung by Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, and other artists and was reworked by modernist composer/pianist Frederic Rzewski.

Zilphia Horton

Other musicians credited with transforming the song are Frank Hamilton, Guy Carawan, and Pete Seeger.


And Quiet Flows the Don

The lyrics for the folk song "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson were adapted from a cossack folk song mentioned in And Quiet Flows the Don.

Aunt Molly Jackson

In the mid-1930s, she performed in New York City together with Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Earl Robinson, Will Geer, her half-brother Jim Garland, and her half-sister Sarah Ogan Gunning.

Dafydd Iwan

Dafydd Iwan's earliest material was Welsh translations of tunes by American folk / protest singers: Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan.

David Bennett Cohen

When he was young he attended live performances of Otis Spann, Professor Longhair, Meade Lux Lewis, Pete Seeger, Joshua Rifkin and Josh White, among others.

David King Dunaway

He is a national radio producer/podcaster, the biographer of Pete Seeger, and a national expert in American studies specializing in oral history, folk music, and Route 66.

David Mallett

His songs have been recorded by more than 150 artists, including Pete Seeger, Alison Krauss, John Denver, Arlo Guthrie, Emmylou Harris, Peter, Paul & Mary, Bok, Trickett, Muir, and Liam Clancy among others.

Eighth Step Coffee House

The long list of known and unknown artists with whom The Step has worked includes Pete Seeger, Milt Hinton, Paula Robeson, Janos Starker, Ronnie Gilbert, Holly Near, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Richie Havens, Guy Davis and independent rock phenomenon Ani DiFranco.

Florencio Morales Ramos

Besides Ramito's original version, it has been versioned by multiple artists, including Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Pete Seeger, Yolandita Monge, Tony Croatto, José González y su Banda Criolla, and others.

Garrison Institute

Teachers and presenters at the Garrison Institute have included Adyashanti, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Rajmohan Gandhi, Philip Glass, Daniel Goleman, Mikhail Gorbachev, Paul Hawken, Father Thomas Keating, Sharon Salzberg, Pete Seeger, Roshi Enkyo O’Hara, Peter Senge, Lama Surya Das, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, and many others.

Gene Deitch

He was also an amateur sound recordist, who made tape recordings of artists like John Lee Hooker and Pete Seeger.

George Pickow

His photographs depict many musical artists, ranging from Louis Armstrong, Little Richard, and Theodore Bikel, to Pete Seeger and Judy Collins, as well as visual artists such as Edward Hopper.

Get Up, Stand Up: The Story of Pop and Politics

The series feature an impressive list of interviewees, including Joan Baez, Tom Paxton, Bono, David Bowie, Johnny Cash, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Bob Dylan, Ice-T, Bob Geldof, Willie Nelson, Roger Waters, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger, and Neil Young.

Hudson River Sloop Clearwater

In 2012, Pete Seeger and Lorre Wyatt released the music video and single "God's Counting on Me, God's Counting on You", which they recorded and filmed on the "Clearwater" while sailing on the Hudson in 2010.

Joe Hill Award

Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger often performed this song and are associated with it.

John Dull

John's music promotion company JHM Dull Productions has worked with various artist including Pete Seeger, Peter Paul and Mary, The Oak Ridge Boys, Richie Havens, Uncle Floyd, Emmylou Harris, Tom Paxton and Tom Chapin among many others.

Judy Collins 3

He would later bring with him the acoustic arrangements of the Pete Seeger songs "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season" and "The Bells of Rhymney" (as well as the notion of covering Dylan-material in an unusual fashion) when he went on to co-found the folk rock group The Byrds, where they would get a full electrified rock'n'roll-band treatment.

Kelly Sullivan

Other well-known works include depictions of musical icons including Dave Matthews Band, B.B. King, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Rogers, Pete Seeger, Koko Taylor, Clarence Clemons, John Lee Hooker.

Mimi Fariña

Fariña used her connections with the folksinging community to elicit help in her focus with Bread and Roses, including Pete Seeger, Paul Winter, Odetta, Judy Collins, Taj Mahal, Lily Tomlin, Carlos Santana, and Bonnie Raitt, amongst others.

Murray Lerner

Produced and directed by Lerner, the film was a documentary shot between 1963 and 1966 at the Newport Folk Festival that included performances by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Donovan, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul & Mary, Johnny Cash and Joan Baez.

Terry Pettus

When Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger passed through Seattle, they performed at the hoots; it is believed that they picked up the term hootenanny there, and passed it into the broader American vocabulary.

The Fause Knight Upon the Road

Stephan Said recorded "The False Knight on the Road" and a version re-written as an anti-war anthem on the 2002 EP The Bell which included Pete Seeger and Tara Nevins.

Traditional Irish singing

In the past, many such 'source' singers were deemed so upon ‘discovery’ by field researches such as Cecil Sharp, Alan Lomax, Hamish Henderson, Pete Seeger, Ewan MacColl or other song collectors who were prominent in 1950s and 1960s.

Trenton Six

The international attention focused on the case included many notables, from W. E. B. Du Bois to Pete Seeger -- even Albert Einstein, who lived close by in Princeton, New Jersey.

Zulu music

The song was in a traditional Zulu choral style, which soon came to the attention of American musicologist Alan Lomax, who brought to the song to folk singer Pete Seeger, then of The Weavers.