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Pete Seeger

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2010 - Tomorrow's Children

2009 - Darling Corey

2003 - Traditional Christmas Carols

2002 - Folk Songs for Young People

2002 - American Favorite Ballads, Volume 1

2001 - Song and Play Time

1999 - Headlines & Footnotes: A Collection of Topical Songs

1998 - If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle

1997 - Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Fishes (Little and Big): Animal Folk

1993 - Darling Corey and Goofing-Off Suite

1992 - Abiyoyo and Other Story Songs for Children

1992 - American Industrial Ballads

1982 - God Bless the Grass

1967 - Waist Deep in the Big Muddy & Other Love Songs

1966 - Dangerous Songs!?

1965 - Little Boxes and Other Broadsides

1964 - I Can See a New Day

1963 - We Shall Overcome

1963 - Broadside Ballads Volume 2

1962 - The Bitter and the Sweet

1958 - Gazette

1956 - Love Songs for Friends & Foes

0 - American Folk Game & Activity Songs

Members
1 Male

Popularity

47

Followers
193,997

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Patterson, New York, USA

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Folk

Style
Folk

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Born

1919

Active
1939 to 2014

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Most Loved Tracks

Track	Last.FM Listens	Loves
Guantanamera	36,903	3 users
Little Boxes	108,123	3 users
This Land Is Your Land	40,055	3 users
We Shall Overcome	47,101	3 users

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Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919; † 27. Januar 2014) was an American folk singer. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably 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, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, and environmental causes.

As a song writer, he is best known as the author or co-author of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (with Joe Hickerson), "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)", (composed with Lee Hays of The Weavers), and "Turn, Turn, Turn!", which have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement and are still sung throughout the world. "Flowers" was a hit recording for The Kingston Trio (1962); Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962); and Johnny Rivers (1965). "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for Peter, Paul & Mary (1962) and Trini Lopez (1963), while The Byrds popularized "Turn, Turn, Turn!" in the mid-1960s, as did Judy Collins in 1964, and The Seekers in 1966. Seeger was one of the folksingers most responsible for popularizing the spiritual "We Shall Overcome" (also recorded by Joan Baez and many other singer-activists) that became the acknowledged anthem of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement, soon after folk singer and activist Guy Carawan introduced it at the founding meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. In the PBS "American Masters" episode Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, Seeger states it was he who changed the lyric from the traditional "We will overcome" to the more singable "We shall overcome".