Recommended Materials
A LINK IN THE CHAIN
Part of the Columbia/Legacy Records Common Chord series, this 2-disc compilation album includes topical songs and social anthems as well as ballads and historical story songs. All songs performed by Pete Seeger, including the previously unreleased "My Oklahoma Home Blowed Away”, “Aimee Semple McPherson”, “Pretty Boy Floyd”, “Draft Dodger”, “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone”.
Legacy Records # 64772, 1996.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE: THE SONGS OF PETE SEEGER
One of the great collaborations of modern artists and the legendary folk songwriter. All new performances by Ani DeFranco, Odetta, Studs Terkel, The Weavers, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Bruce Cockrun, Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt, Roger McGuinn, Bruce Springsteen and Nanci Griffith. Includes the 1999 Grammy nominated performance of “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine”, by Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne. Liner notes by Pete Seeger, Ani DeFranco, Jackson Browne and Bruce Cockrun.
Appleseed Records # 1024, 1998.
PETE SEEGER: GREATEST HITS
Pete Seeger performs “Wimoweh (Mbube)”, “Where Have all The Flowers Gone”, “The Bells of Rhymney” and “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)”.
Legacy Records # 65711, 1987.
PETE SEEGER IN PRAGUE 1964
2-disc album of songs recorded in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1964, including “Tzena Tzena”, “We Shall Overcome” and “Living In The Country”. Remastered version released in 2001 includes personal notes spoken by Pete Seeger.
Flyright # 68, 2001.
IF I HAD A HAMMER: SONGS OF HOPE AND STRUGGLE
Pete Seeger records “We’ll All Be A-Doubling”, “Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream”, “If I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song)”, “Oh, Had I A Golden Thread” and “Bourgeois Blues” with the Almanac Singers, David Amram and Tao Rodriguez.
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings # 40096, 1998.
WAIST DEEP IN THE BIG MUDDY AND OTHER LOVE SONGS
Originally released in 1967, this album illustrates the diversity of the Pete Seeger catalog by featuring social anthems and protest songs, as well as love ballads. Includes “Oh, Yes I’d Climb (The Highest Mountain For You)”, “The Sinking of the Reuben James”, “Waist Deep In the Big Muddy” and Ed McCurdy’s “Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream”. Also includes liner notes by Pete Seeger.
Legacy Records # 57311, 1994.
HEADLINES & FOOTNOTES
Collection of Pete Seeger recordings from 1955 through 1999, including “Guantanamera”, “Wimoweh (Mbube)”, “Little Boxes” and “I Come and Stand At Every Door”.
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings # 4011, 1999.
DANGEROUS SONG!?
Originally released in 1966, this remastered version includes previously unreleased recordings of “Casey Jones”, “What Next?” and “Equinoxial”. Liner Notes by Pete Seeger and Arthur Levy.
Legacy Records # 65261, 1998.
ABIYOYO AND OTHER SONGS FOR CHILDREN
Pete Seeger performs folk songs for children including “One Grain of Sand”, “Sweepy, Sweepy, Sweepy” and “Abiyoyo”. Originally released on Folkways Records in 1958.
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings # 45001, 1989.
WE SHALL OVERCOME: THE COMPLETE CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT
Recorded at Carnegie Hall on June 8, 1963. 2-disc set includes the full legendary concert of America’s greatest folk performer.
Columbia # 45312, 1989.