Pete Seeger

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.

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Pete Seeger — movies and TV shows

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

The Dick Cavett Show

1968

Reading Rainbow

1983

The Kennedy Center Honors

1978

The Johnny Cash Show

1969

The David Susskind Show

1959

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

2022

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

2005

Gasland

2010

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

2009

Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!

1990

Alice's Restaurant

1969

All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music

1977

The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack

2000

Rainbow Quest

1965

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

1970

ReMastered: The Lion's Share

2019

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

1999

An Act of Conscience

1997

Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'

1984

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

2011

Give Me the Banjo

2011

I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War

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Tribute to Harry Chapin

1991

Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie

1988

Festival

1967

Freedom Summer

2014

Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home

2006

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

2007

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

2007

The Internationale

2000

Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

2002

Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970

2019

Palme

2012

Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists

1983

BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie

1988

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

1990

Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center

1989

Pete and Toshi Get a Camera

2015

The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time

1982

The Winding Stream

2014

Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation

2013

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

2004

To Hear Your Banjo Play

1947

Newport and the Great Folk Dream

2025

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

2013

Canto Libre - den fria sången

1980

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The Creative Person: The Folksinger

1965

Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration

1977

Ella Jenkins Live at the Smithsonian

2007

Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan

2008

Down By The Riverside

2023

Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie: Together in Concert

1978

THE MANY COLORED PAPER

Strange Fruit

2002

Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie Story

1996

The Foolish Frog

1971

The Streets of Greenwood

1962

Chords of Fame

1984