Happy birthday, Pete Seeger

Subject: Happy birthday, Pete Seeger
From: EBarnacle
Date: 03 May 06 - 07:37 AM

The title says it all. Long may he wave.

Subject: RE: Happy birthday, Pete Seeger
From: Ernest
Date: 03 May 06 - 08:14 AM

I second that.

Subject: RE: Happy birthday, Pete Seeger
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 03 May 06 - 08:19 AM

He was born in 1919 according to the Merlefest program, where he took part in the "Ribbon of Highway Endless Skyway" tribute to Woody Guthrie. And he still inspires.

Subject: RE: Happy birthday, Pete Seeger
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 03 May 06 - 08:22 AM

Happy Birthday Pete.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Happy birthday, Pete Seeger
From: Folkiedave
Date: 03 May 06 - 08:35 AM

Saw hims twice in the Sixties - Manchester and Liverpool (Spinners Birthday Concert - 10th I think it was - around 1963/4).

Brilliant. Happy Birthday.

Subject: RE: Happy birthday, Pete Seeger
From: kendall
Date: 03 May 06 - 09:17 AM

Did you see the article about him in the New Yorker? What a guy!

Subject: RE: Happy birthday, Pete Seeger
From: Fidjit
Date: 03 May 06 - 09:21 AM

How do I know my youth is all spent
My get up and go has got up and went
In spite of it all I sit here and grin
And think of the places my get up has been.

Pete wrote this when he was 39. Thought he was getting old!
Nice one Pete.

Chas

Subject: RE: Happy birthday, Pete Seeger
From: Flash Company
Date: 03 May 06 - 10:30 AM

Folkiedave... you and I must have been in the same audience at Manchester Free Trade Hall when Pete brought a log on stage and showered the first six rows of the audience with wood chips demostrating how a work song would have been used.
That was the night that I realised I could sing, in spite of all my family said.
I'ts nice that some of the great ones are still with us! Many more Happy Birthdays, Pete.
FC

Subject: RE: Happy birthday, Pete Seeger
From: Folkiedave
Date: 03 May 06 - 10:53 AM

Indeed we were!!

I also used to go to Harry Boardman´s club when Tommy Gilfellon and Terry Whelan were residents.

Subject: RE: Happy birthday, Pete Seeger
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 May 06 - 11:32 AM

Hey! Keep on keepin' on!

Subject: RE: Happy birthday, Pete Seeger
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 03 May 06 - 11:52 AM

There is nothing that anyone can say that would not be a cliche as well as being an understatement. Personally, he has been an inspiration and a teacher. In an age where role models (outside of family of course) are becoming fewer and fewer, Pete has always been there.

I think the true measure of any individual is to look back at what they have given us and left for others. While not one to rest on his laurels, Pete should take pride in all the work that he has done and for giving us the tools to carry on.

Happy birthday Pete!

Subject: RE: Happy birthday, Pete Seeger
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 03 May 06 - 01:10 PM

A large, generous life well lived. Among many other things, the the song, "We Shall Overcome" found its way to the Civil Rights Movement through Seeger:

On Labor Day weekend of 1957, the Reverends Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph David Abernathy heard Pete Seeger sing a song they had never heard before. After a visit of barely three hours, the two ministers had to leave for an engagement. During the drive, Dr. King kept humming the tune and recalled its name, "We Shall Overcome." "There's something about that song that haunts you," he told his companions.

Happy birthday, Pete.

Elmer

Subject: RE: Happy birthday, Pete Seeger
From: open mike
Date: 03 May 06 - 01:46 PM

i see there was an article in the New Yorker
in april 2006 called

THE PROTEST SINGER
Pete Seeger and American Folk Music
by Alec Wilkinson

but i look in http://www.newyorker.com/
and can not find it. Can you?

Subject: RE: Happy birthday, Pete Seeger
From: GUEST,Sh
Date: 03 May 06 - 01:54 PM

Happy Birthday. I wish there were more folk like him !

Subject: RE: Happy birthday, Pete Seeger
From: Big Tim
Date: 03 May 06 - 02:12 PM

Dylan called him the Saint. Even as a non religious person, I know what he meant.

As Dylan also said (of Woody Guthrie), "he taught you how to live", very true of Pete. Glad he's still with us and hope he remains with us for many years yet.