Festivities are planned throughout this weekend in celebration of the 100th birthday of folk-music pioneer Pete Seeger. Born May 3rd, 1919, in Manhattan, Seeger’s songwriting and political activism would for decades go hand-in-hand, leading to the folk revival of the late Fifties and early Sixties, which were bolstered by such Seeger compositions as “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” “Turn!, Turn!, Turn!” and the civil-rights anthem “We Shall Overcome.”
One of Seeger’s earliest songs that would be a hit more than once was “If I Had a Hammer,” written with Lee Hays,...
One of Seeger’s earliest songs that would be a hit more than once was “If I Had a Hammer,” written with Lee Hays,...
- 5/3/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
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