Pete Seeger - resources

Subject: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 20 Nov 14 - 02:34 PM

This is an edited PermaThread® for Thomas Stern's Pete Seeger Resources project. This thread will be edited by Thomas Stern. Feel free to post to this thread, but remember that all messages posted here are subject to editing or deletion.
-Joe Offer-

PETE SEEGER resources
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RECORDINGS
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FILM-VIDEO
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1972 film: A SONG AND A STONE by Bob Elfstrom
now available on DVD WIENERWORLD WNRD 2588 (2014)
See SING OUT: http://singout.org/2014/10/14/robert-elfstrom-pete-seeger-song-stone/
http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/37842/Pete-Seeger-A-Song-and-a-Stone/overview

My comment: I watched a short bit of this. Image and sound and
not very good - looks like perhaps 8mm film, but it is wonderful
to see Pete at that time, with Johnny Cash, Clearwater, Rev.Kirkpatrick

April 1981
Symposium on the Spanish Civil War, held at DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.
Pete introduces and sings VIVA LA QUINTE BRIGADA
This is an EXTRA on the 2008 KINO DVD of "The Good Fight".

BOOKS & ARTICLES
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2005, The New Press, New York/London
AND THEY ALL SANG - Adventures of an eclectic disc jockey by STUDS TERKEL
an interview with Pete Seeger from 2002 p.213-223

interesting information about ancestors, working with Alan Lomax
at the Library of Congress etc.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 20 Nov 14 - 07:38 PM

Thanks Joe!
Not much to edit, so far.....


Best wishes, Thomas.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 16 Apr 16 - 12:20 PM

a year and a half, no interest! ??

An interesting release, new to me - Pete Seeger: The Storm King
has there been mention of these elsewhere ???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKCriRjxcU0
http://www.peteseegerthestormking.com/site/


two 2-CD sets issued by HACHETTE AUDIO, 2013; 2016.

PETE SEEGER: THE STORM KING
Stories, Narratives, Poems
Spoken word set to a world of music
Presented by JEFF HAYNES


Pete Seeger: Storm King volume 1

Pete Seeger: The Storm King volume 2


Best wishes, Thomas.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: maeve
Date: 16 Apr 16 - 01:08 PM

It's all interesting, Thomas- just not anything to add.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: voyager
Date: 17 Apr 16 - 12:55 PM

Repost -

Seeger Family Concert - March 2007

voyager

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 17 Apr 16 - 02:19 PM

I was lucky enough to win a copy of the DVD of the 1972 documentary film "A Song and a Stone":thanks to Pete Heywood of "Living Tradition" magazine for deeming my few short words about Pete worthy of publication, and the DVD!

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 08:33 AM

HACHETTE 2-11830                         2-CD 2013
PETE SEEGER: The Storm King, Volume 1

[Introduction]
Covered Wagon
Sailing Up My Dirty Stream
Talking Drum
To Know Good Will
Toshi
Storm King
Jacob's Vision
Peace Pilgrim
Libba Cotton
Fannie Lou Hamer
Big Muddy
Story of the Banjo

Imagine
Little Girl
Abiyoyo
Father
MLK 14
Double Helix
Tzena Tzena
Rendezvous with Death
Talking Leaves
Woody Guthrie
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
[Copyright Information]


HACHETTE 2-X6561                         2-CD 2016
PETE SEEGER: The Storm King, Volume 2

[Introduction]
Choir of Fools
Long Train
Mexico
Sonny Terry - Brownie McGhee
Clearwater
Satchel Paige
President Hayes
Rosa Parks
Can You Hear Me Now
Occupy Wall Street
Wish
World's Last Whale

African Banjo
Lead Belly
Folk Process
Violin Cello Bass
To My Old Brown Earth
Big Corporations
Danny Boy
India
Paul Robeson
Martin Luther King
We Shall Overcome
Somebody Else's Eye
[Copyright Information]

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 03 Jun 16 - 10:06 AM

scheduled for 29 July 2016 release, from FELLSIDE Recordings:

PETE SEEGER IN ENGLAND       2-CD
Disc: 1
1. Intro
2. East Virginia
3. Deep Blue Sea
4. I Knew Leadbelly
5. El Dia De Tu Santo
6. Cumberland Bear Hunt
7. Pretty Polly
8. He Lies In The American Land
9. One Big Fat Hen
10. Leather Britches/jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring
11. Suliram
12. The Bells Of Rhymney
13. John Riley
14. Go Tell Aunt Rhody
15. I Am A Union Woman/fare Y'well Old Ely Branch
16. Which Side Are You On?
17. The Scaler
18. Talking Union
19. The Water Is Wide
20. Bayeza
21. Abi-yo-yo
22. I Never Will Marry
23. She Moves Through The Fair
24. How Beautiful Are The Nights In Israel
25. Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream
[the selections on DISC 1 were released by FOLKLORE Records
in 1963 on 2 LP's
FOLKLORE F/LAUT/1 PETE SEEGER IN CONCERT
FOLKLORE F-LAUT/2 PETE SEEGER In Concert Vol.2 ]

Disc: 2
1. Old Joe Clark
2. The House Carpenter
3. Medley
4. Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
5. What Did You Learn In School Today?
6. Little Boxes
7. Intro
8. If You Miss Me At The Back Of The Bus
9. Intro
10. Pastures Of Plenty
11. The Sinking Of The 'reuben James'
12. Intro
13. Mail Myself To You
14. The Frog & The Mouse
15. Shanties: Shenandoah/Louisiana
16. Little Birdie
17. Intro
18. Guantanamera
19. A Hard Rains Gonna Fall
20. We Shall Overcome

"The legendary American Folk singer's career had been seriously knocked off course by the McCarthy witch-hunts into Unamerican Activities in the USA affecting artists believed to be communists. At one stage Seeger was facing a ten year prison sentence, but he managed to visit the UK in 1958. The concert was recorded and issued by the Folklore label which emanated out of the Dobell's record shop on Charing Cross road in West London. In 1964 he was back again and at one concert, at Manchester's Free Trade Hall, he was recorded again.

Both concerts on this DOUBLE CD FOR THE PRICE OF ONE set are typical Seeger material of that time. He talks about his friends Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie and champions new songwriters like Tom Paxton and Malvina Reynolds. The concerts also give a wonderful insight to how Seeger worked an audience and had them eating out of his hand. His ability to engage the audience is an object lesson for young performers. The Folklore LPs had limited circulation and the Manchester concert has never been heard before. The booklet comes with an informative essay about Pete Seeger by Joe Stead. "

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Jun 16 - 02:33 PM

I hadn't heard of the audiobook Pete Seeger: The Storm King, and I'm intrigued. The production has a Website:

http://www.peteseegerthestormking.com/

I think "Storm King" was the name of Pete's record label. There's a Storm King Mountain across the Hudson River and a bit downstream from Pete's home in Beacon, New York. When I drove the highway on the west side of the Hudson several years ago, it was a treacherous but beautiful drive to get around Storm King.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 03 Jun 16 - 03:28 PM

Hi Joe,
My recollection, without searching, is STORMKING was Pete's music publishing company.
The storm king CDs are imo a wonderful resource, great to hear Pete's stories, recollections, and philosophy in his last years - I think they were broadcast on NPR a few years ago.
The IN ENGLAND CDs will be available through the usual sources
at the end of July, probably sooner via the FELLSIDE website (which is being updated). If anyone is interested give them a few days
to get up and running. Seeger fans probably have the FOLKLORE LPs, but I look forward to having them on much more convenient CD format, as well as getting the additional previously unreleased concert.
Cheers, Thomas.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 16 Feb 19 - 10:03 PM

Coming May 2019, Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection is a career-spanning anthology of one of America’s most quintessential, celebrated, and influential musicians. Featuring a large-format 200-page book, 6 CDs recordings, 20 previously unreleased tracks, historic live performances, and special collaborations, this set encompasses over 60 years of Pete’s Folkways catalog, released on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

Read more about the set in
Rolling Stone
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pete-seeger-smithsonian-folkways-box-set-100th-birthday-794235/

and Pitchfork,
https://folkways.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=21cdbe91fb363c7ead362b511&id=398a541627&e=23dafbc3a6

and pre-order your copy https://folkways.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=21cdbe91fb363c7ead362b511&id=6a5b81191b&e=23dafbc3a6



Disc: 1
1. We Shall Overcome
2. If I Had a Hammer
3. Turn Turn Turn
4. Goodnight, Irene
5. Guantanamera
6. The Bells of Rhymney
7. Where Have All the Flowers Gone
8. Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
9. Little Boxes
10. Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
11. So Long It's Been Good to Know You
12. Mrs. McGrath
13. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
14. Banks of Marble
15. Talking Atom
16. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
17. Puttin' on the Style
18. Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
19. Viva la Quince Brigada
20. Living in the Country
21. This Land Is Your Land

Disc: 2
1. Union Hoot: The Scabs Crawl In / We Pity Our Bosses Five / Keep That Line A-Moving / Join the Picket
2. You Can All Join In: It Takes Everybody to Build This Land / Indian Deer Hunting / Yankee Doodle / O
3. Sea Chanties: Boston "Come-All-Ye" (Blow Ye Winds Westerly) / New Bedford Whalers / The Bigler/ John
4. Down in the Valley
5. Buffalo Gals
6. UAW-CIO
7. Dinky Die
8. Uncle Sam, Won't You Please Come Home to Guam
9. Moorsoldaten
10. Listen Mr. Bilbo
11. Joe Hill
12. Roll the Union On
13. OPA Shout
14. Talking Union
15. John Riley
16. Banjo Medley: Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss / Cripple Creek / Ida Red / Old Joe Clark
17. Jam on Jerry's Rocks
18. Lonesome Traveler
19. Goofing-Off Suite: Opening Theme
20. Beethoven, Ludwig v.:Chorale from Symphony No. 9
21. Suliram
22. Babevuya
23. Blue Mountain Lake
24. Coal Creek March / Pay Day at Coal Creek / Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line
25. Wasn't That a Time
26. Which Side Are You On? - By The Almanac Singers

Disc: 3
1. Foolish Frog
2. I Had a Rooster
3. Mr. Rabbit
4. Oh, Worrycare
5. Hard Times in the Mill
6. Casey Jones (the Union Scab)
7. The Death of Harry Simms
8. The Preacher and the Slave
9. I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
10. Passing Through
11. Kumbaya
12. Black and White
13. Didn't Old John Cross the Water / Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
14. Midnight Special
15. Que Bonita Bandera
16. The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
17. In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down
18. Hold On
19. Down by the Riverside
20. Wimoweh
21. Tina Sizwe (We the Brown Nation)

Disc: 4
1. In Tarrytown
2. Oleanna
3. Deep Blue Sea
4. Barbara Allen
5. Big Rock Candy Mountain
6. House of the Rising Sun
7. Shenandoah
8. Go Tell Aunt Rhody
9. Bottle Up and Go
10. Hard Travelling
11. Dink's Song
12. When I First Came to This Land
13. The Half Hitch
14. I Never Will Marry
15. Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase
16. No More Auction Block
17. Talking Blues
18. St. James Infirmary
19. Strawberry Roan
20. Follow the Drinking Gourd
21. Seneca Canoe Song (Kayowjajineh)
22. The Banks of Champlain
23. My Gallant Black Bess
24. Nonesuch
25. Battle of New Orleans

Disc: 5
1. Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
2. Carol of the Beasts (Burgundian Carol)
3. The Quiz Show
4. Eight-Hour Day
5. The Popular Wobbly
6. Bourgeois Blues
7. Garbage
8. Guardian Beauty Contest (Attila the Hun)
9. Rambling Boy
10. Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter
11. Freiheit (Die Thülmann-Kolonne)
12. Battle of Maxton Field
13. What Did You Learn in School Today
14. From Way Up Here
15. To My Old Brown Earth
16. My Dirty Stream (The Hudson River Song)
17. Letter to Eve
18. Ballad of Dr. Dearjohn
19. My Name is Lisa Kalvelage
20. Don't Ask What a River Is For
21. God Bless the Grass
22. Of Time and Rivers Flowing
23. Well May the World Go
24. Guantanamera (Live at the Poor People's March on Washington, 1968)

Disc: 6
1. Quite Early Morning
2. There's Better Things to Do
3. My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms
4. Estadio Chile
5. Why, Oh Why?
6. How About You?
7. The Sinking of the Reuben James
8. Abiyoyo
9. Cristo Ya Nacio
10. The Water is Wide
11. Greensleeves
12. If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song)
13. We'll All Be A-Doubling
14. Arrange and Rearrange
15. English is Cuh-Ray-Zee (English is Crazy)
16. A Little of This and That
17. Sailin' Up, Sailin' Down
18. All Mixed Up
19. Star Spangled Banner / To Anacreon in Heaven
20. One Grain of Sand


Thomas.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Feb 19 - 10:10 PM

I'm helping Peter Blood and Annie Patterson on a Pete Seeger songbook, titled If I Had a Hammer (click). It's nice to be working with Peter and Annie on another songbook.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 May 19 - 11:55 PM

There's an interesting segment on NPR's All Things Considered today about the May 3 release of Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection:

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/01/718814390/pete-seegers-legacy-gets-immortalized-with-smithsonian-folkways-collection

A number of us will be doing a Pete Seeger singalong June 8 at the San Francisco Free Folk Festival, https://sffolkfest.org/pete-seeger-program/. We did this program last year at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, and it was a great success. This time, we'll be joined by Emma's Revolution, which is pretty cool.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: GUEST,EBarnacle this machine won't accept membersh
Date: 02 May 19 - 06:58 AM

With Pete's 100th birthday coming up, a friend sent me this "Democracy Now" segment which was aired shortly after his death.

Pete retrospective

Subject: Folklore: Pete Seeger Smithsonian Collection
From: GUEST,Starship
Date: 02 May 19 - 04:03 PM

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/01/718814390/pete-seegers-legacy-gets-immortalized-with-smithsonian-folkways-collection?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR21wCAFc-ZuaDo2dejZZLsYmk2Q0EOVDamhNksg_VCTylF9s3usIMQQoUc

If this has already been posted or mentioned, please feel free to add to, edit or delete. Thank you.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 17 Jun 21 - 10:09 PM

PURE PETE SEEGER (PBS 1994)
A 54 minute portrait of Pete Seeger, filmed for BILL MOYERS JOURNAL
is available on DVD as a supplement to:

Bill Moyers AMAZING GRACE
Athena(Acorn Media) AMP-8564    (DVD 2011)

Thomas.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 02 Jun 22 - 09:31 PM

Pete Seeger - Live in Australia 1963
this DVD released in 2009 by ACOEN Medial
article here:
DVD Talk - Pete Seeger in Australia

https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/37743/pete-seeger-live-in-australia-1963/

Thomas.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Jun 22 - 11:15 PM

Pete Seeger and The Bush Music Club, 1963 plus earlier & later correspondence, including a link to the video.

The earliest contact was a 1957 letter, thanking BMC for a donation to his legal expenses relating to his appearance at the House Un-American Activities Committee, which has unfortunately not survived. The latest correspondence was for his 90th birthday.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Stringsinger
Date: 06 Jun 22 - 03:48 PM

"The Lonesome Train" by Earl Robinson. Early recording features Pete and Burl Ives.
Also, The Peekskill Story featuring the song "Hold The Line".

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Stringsinger
Date: 08 Jun 22 - 07:10 PM

There's a film on YouTube "To Hear My Banjo Play".
Also, our recording of Nonesuch is available through Smithsonian/Folkways.
My favorite recording of Pete's is "Darling Corey" though Smithsonian/Folkways.
I asked Pete about this recording. He was young then. I thought the banjo accompaniments
were brilliant. Pete said, "Yes and it was downhill from then on". I thought that was a funny answer.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: BK Lick
Date: 12 Jun 22 - 06:54 PM

"To Hear Your Banjo Play" (1947) featuring Pete Seeger

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: BK Lick
Date: 12 Jun 22 - 07:15 PM

If one visits Art's Place and follows the link there to Art's photo gallery, searching for "Pete Seeger" turns up 14 of his photos of Pete and a 15th photo where Pete is mentioned in the caption.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 12 Jun 22 - 09:06 PM

Hello BK Lick,
thanks for the link. The photos are on pages 15, 16, 21.
Also Peggy and Mike.

Thomas.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: BK Lick
Date: 13 Jun 22 - 02:10 AM

Just to be clear, by "searching for 'Pete Seeger'" I meant using the search link found at the top of each page; doing this will select just those photos whose titles or captions contain the words "Pete Seeger."

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 29 Feb 24 - 09:19 PM

article about the Smithsonian-Folkways release
“Pete Seeger: The Complete Bowdoin College Concert, 1960.”
https://bowdoinorient.com/2019/04/26/caught-on-tape-pete-seegers-1960-visit-to-bowdoin/



Interesting late interview with Pete Seeger includes discussion of
CP membership: "My interview with Pete Seeger: July 28, 2012 (revised 2/4/14) - Eileen Newman"
https://youtu.be/tJP1NqcW90Y?si=ih-PryYC2cGfGCdS

anyone have or know of available interviews or writings about
Pete Seegers party activities ????
The famous flip flop in party line and the Almanac Singers
first two albums reflecting the flip to peace and back to war is
well known. Both SONGS FOR JOHN DOE and DEAR MR PRESIDENT are
available on CD, streaming on youtube and internet archive.
Thanks.

Thomas.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 23 Mar 24 - 09:59 PM

A Pete Seeger concert at Corell University, Ithaca NY - May 16, 1957
has been posted to YouTube.

Pete Seeger concert at Cornell, 1957


Sourwood Mountain/Nobody's Tone Death
Deep Blue Sea
I Never Shall Marry
Housewife's Lament
He Will Just Do Nothing At All
Oleanna
Tangled Melodies (spoken)
0Abiyoyo
Demi Song
The Miller's Song (She'd Have Her Corn Ground)
Dayenu Passover Song
Aguinaldo Song (Puerto Rican Christmas song)
Que Bonita Bandera (Puerto Rican Flag Song)
Open the Door, Softly/Over the Mountains
Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)
United Nations Make a Chain (WWII left-wing words to "Keep Your Hand on the Plow"
How Can I Keep from Singing?
It Takes a Worried Man (w/Ellen Stekert & Joel Hendler)
The Brazos River (The Texas Rivers Song - Ellen and Pete)
The Er-I-E Canal
Down By the Riverside
This Land is Your Land
The Wedding Songs
Get Along Home Cindy Cindy
Part 2
Banks of the Ohio (Ellen and Pete)
Rock Island Line (Joel Hendler and Pete)
Leadbelly Medley (Pete on 12-String): In the Pines
Kisses Sweeter than Wine, Mr. Tom Hughes' Town
Pay Me My Money Down/The Water is Wide
Green Corn (Leadbelly song)
Sloop John B.
There Was A Cottage in the Woods
Spanish Civil War Song
Freiheit!
Old Man Atom
Hush Little Baby, Don't Say a Word/There Once Was a Man and He Was Mad
Oh Eve, Where Is Adam?
Oh When the Saints Go Marching In
Go Down Ye Blood
Red Roses
End of tape - Pete is still going

Thomas.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 24 Mar 24 - 10:26 PM

correction:
CORNELL UNIVERSITY

first item on tape: Evening of Doggerel
(I missed it copying the song list)

2nd item probably
Sourwood Mountain/Nobody's Tone DEAD


ANYONE LISTEN TO THE CONCERT ????

I heard Pete Seeger at YALE back in those days, concert
went for long time (as indicated that tape ends concert continued).

Thos.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
From: GUEST,and e,(no cookie)
Date: 30 Mar 24 - 03:14 PM

Report from the Marianas: Notes of an Innocent Bystander
by Pete Seeger. 1945

https://archive.org/details/1945reportfromthemarianas/mode/2up