Pete Seeger
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Pete Seeger

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Biography

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, Seeger also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, workers' rights, and environmental causes.

Films Featuring Pete Seeger

Alice's Restaurant

19696.2

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

20077.0

The Foolish Frog

19718.0

Freedom Summer

20147.2

Give Me the Banjo

20117.2

Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center

1989

A Sigh and a Wish: Helen Creighton's Maritimes

A Sigh and a Wish: Helen Creighton's Maritimes

2001

The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack

20007.4

An Act of Conscience

19977.0

Tribute to Harry Chapin

19917.0

I’m a Negro, I’m an American – Paul Robeson

19907.0

Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry: Red River Blues 1948-1974

20033.8

Down By The Riverside

2023

Pete and Toshi Get a Camera

2015

To Hear Your Banjo Play

19474.5

Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal

20047.0

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

20057.8

Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan

20088.5

Strange Fruit

20029.0

Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie Story

1996

Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation

20137.0

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

20228.2

Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

2007

Gasland

20107.1

I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War

Pete Seeger at Home

Pete Seeger at Home

1989

Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning

Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning

1988

The Arlo Guthrie Show

The Arlo Guthrie Show

1987

Festival

19676.0

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

19705.5

The Winding Stream

20146.5

Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home

2006

Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

20024.5

Chords of Fame

198410.0

The Streets of Greenwood

19628.0

ReMastered: The Lion's Share

20196.6

Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie

19886.8

Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970

2019

Canto Libre - den fria sången

1980

Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'

19846.5

The Internationale

20008.0

Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration

1977

The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time

19827.8

Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists

19836.4

Wasn't That a Time

Wasn't That a Time

1962

Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain

2013

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

19998.0

We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial

20094.6

Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie: Together in Concert

1978

Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!

19906.0

The Creative Person: The Folksinger

1965

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

20116.6

Pete Seeger: A Song and A Stone

Pete Seeger: A Song and A Stone

1972

BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie

1988

Palme

20127.6

The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival

20078.1

Newport and the Great Folk Dream

2025

Ella Jenkins Live at the Smithsonian

2007

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