AMERICAN MASTERS | Pete Seeger: The Power of Song | 3 | PBS

AMERICAN MASTERS Pete Seeger: The Power of Song airs February 27 on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/americanmasters Pete Seeger helped introduce America to its own musical heritage, devoting his life to using the power of sing as a force for social change. Standing strong for deeply-held beliefs, Seeger went from the top of the pop charts to the top of the blacklist and was banned from American commercial television for more than 17 years. This determined singer/songwriter made his voice heard and encouraged the people of the world to sing out along with him. Now almost 90, Seeger continues to invigorate and inspire the musicians who help tell his story- including Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, Natalie Maines, Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie, and others. In this online-only premiere, Pete Seeger performs a song called "Quite Early Morning." AMERICAN MASTERS is produced for PBS by Thirteen/WNET New York.

Pete Seeger - Little Boxes

LYRICS: Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes made of ticky tacky Little boxes, little boxes Little boxes all the same There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same And the people in the houses all went to the university Where they all were put in boxes, little boxes all the same And there's doctors and there's lawyers and business executives And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same And they all play on the golf course and drink their martini dry And they all have pretty children and the children go to school And the children go to summer camp and then to the university Where they all got put in boxes, and they all came out the same And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family In boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same There's a green one, and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same

Pete Seeger - Guantanamera

As usual, Pete gets the whole audience to sing along. PLEASE NOTE: This is posted as a tribute to the artists. If there is a copyright issue, please notify me and it will be promptly deleted.

Jean Ritchie & Pete Seeger - Jenny Jenkins

Rainbow Quest with Pete Seeger (No. 5)

pete seeger which side are you on

union song

Buffy Sainte-Marie & Pete Seeger - Cindy

Well, Cindy is a little gal She lives away down south She's so sweet the honeybees Swarm around her mouth Chorus: Get along home, Cindy Cindy Get along home, Cindy Cindy Get along home, Cindy Cindy I'll marry you some day Well, I went to see my Cindy She was standing in the door Her shoes and stockings in her hands Her clothes all over the floor (Chorus) My Cindy is a pretty girl My Cindy is a peach She throws her arms around my neck And hangs on like a leech (Chorus) I wish I were an apple A-hangin on the tree An' every time that Cindy passed She'd take a bite o' me (Chorus) She told me that she loved me She called me Sugarplum She drew her arms around me I thought my time had come (Chorus) Wish I had a needle and thread Wish that I could sew I'd sew that gal to my coat tails And down the road we'd go (Chorus) She loved me on the mountainside She loved me on the hill And every time she said "I won't" Her echo said "I will!" (Chorus) She took me to the parlor She cooled me with her fan She said I was the prettiest thing In the shape of mortal man (Chorus) She loves me in the summertime She loves me in the fall If she don't love me all the time I want no love at all (Chorus) If I had a pretty gal I'd put her on a shelf Ev'ry time she smiled at me I'd jump right up myself (Chorus) Buffy Sainte-Marie on Rainbow Quest with Pete Seeger (Episode 38)

Pete Seeger tells how he came to write "Turn Turn Turn."

Pete Seeger tells the story of how he wrote the peace anthem, "Turn Turn Turn." This song was a No. 1 hit for the Byrds.

Solidarity Forever (Pete Seeger)

Solidarity Forever sung by Pete Seeger & The Weavers, with old photographs of the labor movement in US History.This is a tribute to all the workers who sacrificed to make a better world for their children and grand children.

Pete Seeger - What Did You Learn In School?

Pete singing on BBC's 'Tonight In Person' in 1964. (Ripped from Folk Sounds of the Sixties, BBC4, 2006). Apologies for the watermark which appears. I hope to upload a watermark-free version in the future.

Pete Seeger - We shall overcome

Pete Seeger sings We Shall Overcome.

AMERICAN MASTERS | Pete Seeger: The Power of Song | PBS

AMERICAN MASTERS Pete Seeger: The Power of Song aired February 27 on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/americanmasters Pete Seeger helped introduce America to its own musical heritage, devoting his life to using the power of sing as a force for social change. Standing strong for deeply-held beliefs, Seeger went from the top of the pop charts to the top of the blacklist and was banned from American commercial television for more than 17 years. This determined singer/songwriter made his voice heard and encouraged the people of the world to sing out along with him. Now almost 90, Seeger continues to invigorate and inspire the musicians who help tell his story- including Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, Natalie Maines, Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie, and others. AMERICAN MASTERS is produced for PBS by Thirteen/WNET New York.

Pete Seeger - Wimoweh & Flowers Gone

This is from a controversial episode of the Smothers Brothers. Originally, Pete sang his song "Waist Deep In The Big Muddy" in between these two songs but CBS deemed it too political to air and deleted it from the broadcast. However, he did perform the song on a subsequent broadcast and this time CBS allowed it to air. That version is available on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjONblHLPPI You can also see the full seven minute performance here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENXhShuof1I PLEASE NOTE: This is posted as a tribute to the artists. If there is a copyright issue, please notify me and it will be promptly deleted.

Jack Elliott, Pete Seeger, & Malvina Reynolds - Woody's Rag

Rainbow Quest with Pete Seeger (No. 6)

Union Song Almanac Singers, Pete Seeger "The Union Maid"

The Union Maid. 1955 Folkway Records. FH 5285

Ode to Pete Seeger

Chorus: He sung in hobo jungles For Rockefellers too Pacifists and soldiers heard his songs To everything there is a season Sang The Byrds in Turn Turn Turn Pete asked us Where Have All The Flowers Gone? Back in nineteen fifty-five before the days of red and blue He was called before congress to testify Wouldn't plead the fifth amendment He'd already read the first The one that still applies to you and I Sentenced to ten years in prison until sanity prevailed One day in May way back in sixty-two A conviction overturned upon a technicality Kept Pete Seeger free to sing for me and you Chorus: He asked us where have all the flowers gone I remember down in Houston Nixon running again I heard Pete sing This Land Was Made for You and Me Chills of pride ran down my spine When the whole crowd sang along And I thanked God for my land of liberty Things don't look real rosy now But I'm sure somehow we'll survive Trusting in the spirit of the USA That lives in everybody here even the aliens Who risk their lives for what we have each day Would you cross the burning desert Would you swim the Rio Grande Do what you had to do to feed your family Trust your fate to some coyote with blood money on his hands To in the end be only known as deportee A song he sang in hobo jungles For Rockefellers too Some say he's right and others say he's wrong Call him commie call him patriot But whichever one you choose Don't underestimate the power of a song Don't underestimate the power of a song willrichardson.net words and music by William O. Richardson © 2008 Unpublished Songs (SESAC) All Rights Reserved

Pete Seeger - Little Birdie

Pete Seeger - Little Birdie

Tom Paxton and Pete Seeger "Ramblin' Boy" 1965

Tom Paxton and Pete Seeger performing Tom's song "Ramblin' Boy" on Pete Seeger's "Rainbow Quest" NYC PBS TV Show in 1965.

Pete Seeger - Guantanamera

LYRICS: Yo soy un hombre sincero, de donde crece la palma Yo soy un hombre sincero, de donde crece la palma Y antes de morirme quiero echar mis versos de alma Guantanamera, guajira guantanamera Guantanamera, guajira guantanamera Mi verso es de un verde claro y de un carmin encendido Mi verso es un ciervo herido que busca en el monte amparo Con los pobres de la tierra quiero yo mi suerte echar El arroyo de la sierra me complace mas que el mar Rainbow Quest with Pete Seeger (No. 3)

Pete Seeger: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

On July 26, 1956, the House of Representatives voted 373 to 9 to cite Pete Seeger and seven others (including playwright Arthur Miller) for contempt, as they failed to cooperate with House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in their attempts to investigate alleged subversives and communists. Pete Seeger testified before the HUAC in 1955. In one of Pete's darkest moments, when his personal freedom, his career, and his safety were in jeopardy, a flash of inspiration ignited this song. The song was stirred by a passage from Mikhail Sholokhov's novel "And Quie Flows the Don". Around the world the song traveled and in 1962 at a UNICEF concert in Germany, Marlene Dietrich, Academy Award-nominated German-born American actress, first performed the song in French, as "Qui peut dire ou vont les fleurs?" Shortly after she sang it in German. The song's impact in Germany just after WWII was shattering. It's universal message, "let there be peace in the world" did not get lost in its translation. To the contrary, the combination of the language, the setting, and the great lyrics has had a profound effect on people all around the world. May it have the same effect today and bring renewed awareness to all that hear it.

Bruce Springsteen & Seeger Session Band 'Jacobs Ladder'

Live LSO St. Lukes

Garbage (Pete Seeger)

Garbage! ********** by Bill Steele in 1969, (with the last verse and chorus added by Pete Seeger.) Mister Thompson calls the waiter, orders steak and baked potato (Then) he leaves the bone and gristle and he never eats the skin The busboy comes and takes it, with a cough contaminates it (And he) puts it in a can with coffee grounds and sardine tins And the truck comes by on Friday and carts it all away A thousand trucks just like it are converging on the Bay Oh, Garbage, garbage, garbage, garbage We're filling up the seas with garbage What will we do when there's no place left To put all the garbage Mr. Thompson starts his Cadillac and winds it down the freeway track Leaving friends and neighbors in a hydrocarbon haze He's joined by lots of smaller cars all sending gases to the stars There to form a seething cloud that hangs for thirty days And the sun licks down into it with an ultraviolet tongue (Till it) turns to smog and then it settles in our lungs Oh, Garbage, garbage We're filling up the sky with garbage Garbage, garbage What will we do, when there's nothing left to breathe but garbage Getting home and taking off his shoes he settles with the evening news While the kids do homework with the TV in one ear While Superman for thousandth's time sell talking dolls and conquers crime (They) dutifully learn the date of birth of Paul Revere In the paper there's a piece about the mayor's middle name (And) he gets it done in time to watch the all-star bingo game Oh, Garbage We're filling up our minds with garbage What will we do when there's nothing left to read And there's nothing left to need there's nothing left to watch there's nothing left to touch there's nothing left to walk upon and nothing left to ponder on nothing left to see and nothing left to be but garbage In Mr. Thompson's factory they're making plastic Christmas trees Complete with silver tinsel and a geodesic stand The plastic's mixed in giant vats, from some conglomeration that's been piped from deep within the Earth, or strip-mined from the land And if you ask them questions they say "why don't you see? It's absolutely needed for the economy." Oh, garbage, garbage, garbage Their stocks and their bonds all garbage What will they do when their system go to smash there's no value to their cash there's no money to be made that there's a world to be repaid their kids will read in history book about financiers and other crooks and feudalism and slavery and nukes and all their knavery To history's dustbin they're consigned, along with many other kinds of garbage

Pete Seeger on The Peekskill Riots

Legendary folk singer and activist Pete Seeger talks to urban environmental activist Majora Carter about September 4, 1949: The Peekskill Riots.

Pete Seeger Late Night

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Pete Seeger: Power of Song trailer

In PETE SEEGER: POWER OF SONG, the only authorized biography, Jim Brown documents the life of one of the greatest American singer/songwriters of the last century. Pete Seeger was the architect of the folk revival, writing some of its' best known songs including "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," "Turn, Turn, Turn" and "If I Had A Hammer." Largely misunderstood by his critics, including the US government, for his views on peace, unionism, civil rights and ecology, Seeger was targeted by the communist witch hunt of the Fifties. He was picketed, protested, blacklisted, and, in spite of his enormous popularity, banned from American television for more than 17 years. With a combination of never-before-seen archival footage and personal films made by Seeger and his wife, PETE SEEGER: POWER OF SONG chronicles the life of this legendary artist and political activist. The film serves as testament of Seeger's belief in the power of song above all else and his conviction that individuals can make a difference. Musicians including Joan Baez, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Natalie Maines, Tom Paxton and Peter, Paul and Mary appear in this intimate portrait and discuss Seeger's lasting influence on the fabric of American music. PETE SEEGER: POWER OF SONG was directed by Jim Brown and produced by Jim Brown, Michael Cohl, and William Eigen and executive produced by Norman Lear and Toshi Seeger.

Pete Seeger 'Amazing Grace' at the Pumpkin Festival 2007

Singing his songs, a remarkable man. 88 years. Great thanks to Pete.