Nope.
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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As the 78-rpm era began to fade, albums of this sort were increasingly replaced by long-playing records, which quickly became known as "albums."
Benny Hill was the best.
Methinks Benny was a Tory.
It was the Limeliters.
Nope.
Oh well, those folk singers are all alike, anyway.
Ahh yes, the term “Fascist”, the favorite term for Commies to use against their enemies.
They never say “Nazis” because that’s too limiting, using the term “Fascist” was a way of lumping all of their enemies with the Nazis.
And remember the old joke. "Do you want to go to Soviet hell or capitalist hell?" "Soviet hell. In Soviet hell the heating doesn't work."
You got me there, man! Why, of course, that’s where the name ‘album’ originated!
Back in the 1980's, I tried to locate a copy of "Songs for John Doe" and finally obtained a cassette recording from a record dealer in San Diego. I have never seen the actual album, which must be quite a collector's item.
Most of the tunes in the album are also on Youtube, and I have posted a few in this thread.
Mark Gregory in his compilation of “union” songs has posted the following on his website:
The Big Joe Blues
A Poem by Pete Seeger©Pete Seeger 2007
I’m singing about old Joe, cruel Joe,
He ruled with an iron hand
He put an end to the dreams
Of so many in every land
He had a chance to make
A brand new start for the human race
Instead he set it back
Right in the same nasty place
I got the Big Joe Blues
(Keep your mouth shut or you will die fast)
I got the Big Joe Blues
(Do this job, no questions asked)
I got the Big Joe Blues.
Notes
Pete Seeger wrote this song about Stalin. This is how it was reported in the Chicago Tribune 31 Aug 2007
Pete Seeger has the Joe Stalin blues
Decades after drifting away from the Communist Party, the 88-year-old banjo-picker has written a song about the Soviet leader that’s as scathing as any tune in the folk legend’s long career.
“I’m singing about old Joe, cruel Joe. He ruled with an iron hand. He put an end to the dreams of so many in every land,” Seeger wrote in “The Big Joe Blues.”
Seeger said he left the Communist Party around 1950 and apologized years ago for not recognizing that Josef Stalin was a “very cruel misleader.” But he told The Associated Press on Friday that the song he finally finished this year is a first for him, despite three visits to the Soviet Union beginning in the ‘60s.
“It’s the first overt song about the Soviet Union,” Seeger said during a phone interview from his Hudson Valley home in Beacon. “I think I should have though, when I was in the Soviet Union — I should have asked, ‘Can I see one of the old gulags?’”
His site is:
http://unionsong.com/u580.html
Wow Pete Seeger. I like that song Old time rock and roll and Night moves.
Even Khrushchev denounced Stalin.
So Pete Seeger was only 50 years behind Nikita Khrushchev. In all seriousness, better late than never.
BS. Like every other unrepentant Commie, Seeger was lying about that.
He knew about the Gulags, the purges and the murders in the 30s and had absolutely no problem with them. What Comrade Stalin wanted was what Seeger wanted. He was a dutiful servant.
He and his entire circle of 'entertainer' associates were nothing but Commie dupes.
Woody, that machine doesn’t kill fascists. If you want one that does, pick up an M1 Garand.
Pete Seeger never actually pulled the trigger himself, but has supported every anti American totalitarian thug dictator from Stalin to Mao on through Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Hugo Chavez, and BHO. As well as supporting the Occupy Movement and and the anti Israel BDS and flotillas with the likes if Bill Ayers
Read the article in the New Republic that discusses that. Seeger was anti-war before it was kewl.... Anti WWII that is. Took his marching orders straight from the Kremlin.
Pete Seeger lived in Beacon, NY almost his whole life until his death. He was blessed with great musical talent and family pedigree but perverted his gift to further totalitarian communism. He was a hard core ideologue who used his music as a propaganda tool.
He only denounced Stalin because Khrushchev did...If the Soviet Union never denounced Stalin then you bet your sweet bippy that Seeger never would have, neither.
He was a Moscow toady the whole time.
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