Peter "Pete" Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 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, counterculture, 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.
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RIP, Pete.
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PlayhousePalssays...*quality RIP Pete
siftbotsays...Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by PlayhousePals.
articiansays...If there is an afterlife formed from the love we give to the world, he will be most rested of all.
*quality RIP Pete
FlowersInHisHairsays...I can't listen to this song without a tear in my eye. It's just perfect - the simplicity of it, the perfect cyclical structure, the evocative repetition of "long time passing" and "long time ago". And the fact that it sounds hundreds of years old. Perfect.
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