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Discography
Note: I compiled this discography for Pete's autobiography Where Have All the Flowers Gone: A Singalong Memoir. Please contact me at rasongbook@gmail.com with additions and corrections. Thank you! - Peter Blood
Virtually all these songs are available in an abbreviated form on the mp3 disc that accompanies the 2009 Norton edition of Where Have All the Flowers Gone. This wonderful resource was put together by David Bernz from many different recordings.
The following list indicates where specific songs in this book can be found on the author's recordings, as well as on selective recordings by other artists. Songs not listed have not been released on any recordings to date to my knowledge.
A listing of Pete Seeger's recordings that include more than one song in this collection with catalog information can be found at the end of this discography. A different Pete Seeger discography can be found in David Dunaway's revised and re-issued biography, How Can I Keep from Singing (see Bibliography).
Over 80 of the songs in this book are available from Appleseed Recordings on a 3 volume series called the Songs of Pete Seeger and a new Pete Seeger CD, called “At 89”. The Songs of Pete Seeger CDs consist mainly of oth
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The Pete and Toshi Seeger Film Collection
The Pete and Toshi Seeger Film Collection
In David Dunaway's biography of Pete Seeger, How Can I Keep from Singing, Pete Seeger describes how, in 1939, Alan Lomax, assistant-in-charge of the Archive of Folk Song, hired him for "fifteen dollars a week." "His duties were untaxing -cataloging the dusty archives and transcribing songs. In the process he absorbed an entire repertoire" (p. 61). Thus began a long association between Seeger and the Library of Congress that has led to the donation of numerous sound recordings, including his song to President Roosevelt, "Dear Mr. President" (1942), field recordings made at a Texas prison (1951), a performance at Oberlin College (1955), and performances by the Hudson River Sloop Singers (1971).
While most people properly associate Pete Seeger with folk music performances, it is not well known that Pete and his wife, Toshi Seeger, share an interest in film as an expressive medium. Beginning in the mid- 1950s, the Seegers began to document on film the music, dance, games, and occupational lore of the many places they visited around the world. In June 2003 they donated this collection to the American Folklife Center.
"These films are only the latest in a long series of contri
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Pete Seeger
American clan singer abide social tangible (1919–2014)
Musical artist
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