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The Official YouTube Channel of Bob Seger. Bob Seger is an inductee of both the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, The Billboard Legend of Live honoree's catalog. Pete Seeger was the dean of 20th century folk singers. For over sixty years up until his passing in January of , he had been performing and lending his energies to causes he believed in. Born to a musical family, Pete grew up surrounded by music.
His father was the eminent musicologist, Charles Seeger and his mother Constance, a concert violinist. In addition, his siblings Mike, Peggy, and Penny and various cousins and relatives by marriage have had successful recording careers. After the Almanacs disbanded in , Pete became national director of People's Songs later People's Artists , a national topical folk song organization and magazine which was a pre-cursor to Broadside.
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The slogan of the organization was "Songs of Labor and the American People. The Weavers were the first group from the folksong revival to have songs reach national prominence through record sales and radio ironic in Pete's lifelong disdain for "the hit parade". Their version of Lead Belly's Goodnight, Irene reached number one in The group's left-wing activities over the previous decade landed them on the hit list during the McCarthy era and they soon found themselves blacklisted and unable to record, appear on television or radio and perform in many concert venues.
The blacklist would haunt the members of the group throughout the s and part of the s. Pete started recording for Moses Asch on the Asch Recording label in Asch continued to record Pete during the s and beyond with Pete eventually recording over fifty records for the label. With Asch and Folkways Records, Pete was free to record the type of material that he felt was important to record. He was finally acquitted on appeal in During the height of the folksong revival he also recorded a number of successful albums for Columbia Records.
Pete Seeger was involved in almost every important facet of American culture in the years since. Since the s, he was involved in a successful fight to clean up his beloved Hudson River, near his Beacon, New York home. Along with the sloop The Clearwater, Seeger and others spent years sailing the Hudson to sing songs in support of the river clean up to audiences in towns along the way. He and his wife Toshi ran the Clearwater Festival in New York state each year until her passing in Just days before his passing, he participated in the yearly celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Up until the very end, he was committed to working for what he felt was right. His voice and presence will truly be missed, though his legacy will continue to live on. Skip to main content. Music of, by, and for the people. Browse By. Eastern Africa. Middle Africa. Northern Africa. Southern Africa.
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