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Posted on 01/28/2014 5:58:18 AM PST by Mercat
NEW YORK – Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music heritage, died Monday at the age of 94.
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I grew up in the 60s listening to Peter Paul and Mary, The Kingston Trio and others. My parents bought the records and I really enjoyed them. They were funny...”The MTA”, and sad, “PollyVon”, “Tom Dooley”...and exciting, “By the Rising of the Moon.”... and most of all, they were beautiful and beautifully sung with amazing harmonies. My dad had a beautiful voice and sang in choruses in college and I think that is where he gained an appreciation for this kind of singing.
As I grew into conservatism, I saw that some of the songs had these left-leaning lyrics, but that has not turned me away from all folk music.
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Seeger nailed LBJ back in the 60s.
Poor guy keeps dying over and over and over.
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In the Spring of 41, Seeger recorded a 'peace song' that was released in New York record stores the day before Hitler's invasion of Russia. Seeger spent the next several days running around NYC to all those stores pulling all the records back.
The guy was a Commie and puppet of Stalin first and a 'folk singer' second.
Indeed!
I got my first guitar for Christmas 1963 (Two months before the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show), and so, for a budding guitar player (11 years old) I naturally gravitated towards “Folk” music. I liked Dylan and learned all his early songs. The only Pete Seeger song I used to sing was “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?” and just by accident found out that Seeger had stolen the song almost verbatim from a Don Cossack Folk Song! Then, there was that time when he tried to cut off Dylan’s electricity at the Newport Folk Festival! I have had no use for Seeger for at least a HALF CENTURY!!!!
So long, you commie bastard.
Yes. I remember discovering, in my own musical journey, the “originals” of many of Seeger’s Songs. They weren’t “his songs” at all.
Yes...my Dad had all the Kingston trio and PPM records.
Years later, on a Caribbean Cruise, my Mom met Mary Travers (who was the Lounge Singer on the Voyage).
My Mom, who doesn’t miss a beat, said to Mary, “That was a lovely show you did last night. Tell me...are you still a communist?”
Mary, all flustered said, “Uhuh no...but I still CARE.”
(Whatever THAT was supposed to mean! LOL!) I wonder if she will attend Ol’ Pete’s Funeral.
No...I think Mary passed away a few years ago.
He just couldn’t help his love for communism; he must have been elated at the end to see his views triumph in the USA.
Ah...thanks. It was in 2009. I don’t know how i missed that.
Probably because it was just before I joined FR.
A lot of the American people are just like Seeger though tens of millions now would have never heard of him.
I have had a lifelong pit-of-my-stomach hatred of this clown, including his stupid commie face, his stupid commie voice and his stupid commie stardom. That he was enriched by a central tenet of the society he hoped would fall and be trampled on disgusts me. There’s a gasbag gang of his acolytes that has taken over our State Capital building - who every day invade and sing these gasbag songs over and over and over, it’s Pete Seeeeeeg-er, click!, Pete Seeeeeg-er, click!, Pete Seeeeeeg-er!, click! Sung in in a taunting, pompously sonorous tone by his little commie friends - on and on and on. If I worked there I’d be daydreaming of sending a detachment of Praetorian guards with very sharp swords to collect a few heads. Puke!
An NYC waitress told me he was famous for NEVER tipping. Even for hosting a party of 10 or more. Typical liberal hypocrite..
He spawned a whole generation of creatures that invaded my nice state of Oregon. There were many folk groups that told stories without having to support destruction of everything we’ve built.
I watched PPM perform in Tokyo in the 90s and met them back stage. Great show but they were still pushing the communist agenda to the crowd.
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