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Pete Seeger

voc, bj, 1919-2014 US, Manhattan
Singer / Musician of Folk and World
A.k.a. Peter Seeger

American folk singer and songwriter, born May 3rd, 1919 in Manhattan, New York, USA. He passed away at the age of 94 due to natural causes on January 27th, 2014, Manhattan, New York, USA. Stepson of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. Inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 (Early Influence).

     
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • Banjo
  • Guitar
  • Acoustic guitar
Genres
  • Folk
  • World
  • Children's Music
  • Pop
  • Blues
Popular Tracks   
Which Side are You On? on If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope and Struggle by Pete Seeger
Little Boxes on Headlines and Footnotes: A Collection of Topical Songs by Pete Seeger
Solidarity Forever on If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope and Struggle by Pete Seeger
Oh, Susanna on American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 2 by Pete Seeger
John Brown's Body on American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1 by Pete Seeger
Which Side Are You On on The Essential Pete Seeger by Pete Seeger
We Shall Overcome on Broadsides - Songs and Ballads by Pete Seeger
If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song) on Love Songs for Friends and Foes by Pete Seeger
I Know an Old Lady (Who Swallowed a Fly) on Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Fishes by Pete Seeger
Goodnight Irene on Una Leyenda by Pete Seeger

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Discography



Title Artist Year Type
live at Cahn Auditorium, Northwestern University, Evanston, Chicago on 25th October 1956Big Bill Broonzy, Pete Seeger2016Album
Gentle On My Mind 1970John Hartford, Joni Mitchell, Pete Seeger2016Album
Sing Out America!: The Best Of Pete SeegerPete Seeger2014Compil.
Live At The Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me. 1960Pete Seeger2014Album
The Pete Seeger StoryPete Seeger2014Compil.
The Singer And The SongBob Dylan vs Pete Seeger2014Compil.
If I Had A Hammer: The Definitive CollectionPete Seeger2013Compil.
Tribute To Leadbelly Sung By Pete SeegerPete Seeger2013Single
The Essential Pete SeegerPete Seeger2013Compil.
Pete Remembers Woody: Volume TwoPete Seeger2013Album
Pete Remembers Woody: Volume OnePete Seeger2013Album
American Ballads / American Ballads 1-4 / 5 Original Albums On CD!!Pete Seeger2012Compil.
Playlist: The Very Best Of Pete SeegerPete Seeger2012Compil.
A More Perfect UnionPete Seeger, Lorre Wyatt2012Album
Pete SeegerPete Seeger2012Compil.
4 Classic Albums Plus Rare Live RecordingsPete Seeger2011Compil.
In ConcertPete Seeger2011Album
The Complete Bowdoin College Concert 1960Pete Seeger2011Album
The Original Folkways RecordingsPete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly Featuring Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry, Josh White2009Compil.
American Favorite BalladsPete Seeger2009Compil.
Live In Australia 1963Pete Seeger2009Album
American Industrial BalladsPete Seeger2009Compil.
Live In Australia 1963Pete Seeger2009Album
Rainbow Race / Now / Young Vs. OldPete Seeger2009Compil.
American Favorite Ballads Vol. 5Pete Seeger2009Album
"Live In '65"Pete Seeger2009Album
American Favorite BalladsPete Seeger2009Single
American Folk AnthologyPete Seeger2008Compil.
At 89Pete Seeger2008Album
The Power Of SongPete Seeger2008Single
In Der SchaubühnePete Seeger2007Album
American Favorite Ballads Vol. 5Pete Seeger2007Compil.
Clementine - American Favorite BalladsPete Seeger2007Single
American Industrial Ballads... And MorePete Seeger2007Compil.
Can't Start A Fire Without A Spark: Seeger To SpringsteenPete Seeger2007Compil.
Music From Pete Seeger: The Power Of Song Vol. 1Pete Seeger2007Compil.
Talking UnionPete Seeger2007Compil.
Una LeyendaPete Seeger2006Compil.
The Folksinger's Guitar GuidePete Seeger2006Album
The First Rays Of The Protest In The Twentieth CenturyWoody Guthrie / Pete Seeger2006Compil.
Brothers & SistersPete Seeger2006Compil.
Which Side Are You On?Pete Seeger2006Compil.
Pete Seeger In ItaliaPete Seeger2006Album
Folk Songs, Ballads And BanjoPete Seeger2006Compil.
We Shall Not Be Moved: 25 Originals From The Pioneer Of FolkPete Seeger2006Compil.
We Shall Not Be Moved / American Folk Songs For ChildrenPete Seeger2006Compil.
American Favorite Ballads Vol. 4Pete Seeger2006Compil.
Canciones De Las Brigadas InternacionalesPete Seeger, Ernst Busch2006Compil.
The LegendPete Seeger2006Compil.
The Essential Pete SeegerPete Seeger2005Compil.
American Favorite Ballads Vol. 3Pete Seeger2004Compil.
How To Play The 5-String BanjoPete Seeger2004Single
If I Had A HammerPete Seeger2004Compil.
Seeds: The Songs Of Pete Seeger, Volume 3Pete Seeger2003Album
Western Story Frontier Ballads By Pete SeegerPete Seeger2003Compil.
Pete Seeger/The WeaversPete Seeger / The Weavers2003Compil.
American Favorite Ballads Vol. 2Pete Seeger2003Compil.
It Takes A Worried Man (The Best Of)Pete Seeger2003Compil.
Follways RevisitedPete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly2003Compil.
American Folk SongsWoody Guthrie & Pete Seeger2002Compil.
American Favorite Ballads Vol. 1Pete Seeger2002Compil.
The CollectionPete Seeger2001Compil.
Pete Seeger LivePete Seeger2001Album
Pete Seeger In Prague 1964Pete Seeger2001Album
Hard Travelling - The Best Of Pete SeegerPete Seeger2001Compil.
American Folk, Game & Activity SongsPete Seeger2000Compil.
Pioneer Of FolkPete Seeger1999Album
Pioneer Of FolkPete Seeger1999Compil.
Headlines & Footnotes (A Collection Of Topical Songs)Pete Seeger1999Compil.
We Shall OvercomePete Seeger1999Single
"Where Have All The Flowers Gone": The Songs Of Pete SeegerPete Seeger1998Compil.
Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes Little & Big (Animal Folk Songs)Pete Seeger1998Compil.
If I Had A Hammer: Songs Of Hope & StrugglePete Seeger1998Compil.
For Kids And Just Plain FolksPete Seeger1997Compil.
Pete Seeger & Carolyn HesterPete Seeger & Carolyn Hester1996Compil.
More Together Again In Concert (Vol. 1 & 2)Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger1996Album
A Link In The ChainPete Seeger1996Compil.
PetePete Seeger1996Album
Concert: Folk Songs & BalladsPete Seeger1995Album
Songs Of The Lincoln Brigade & International Brigades And Southern Mountain HoedownWoody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry, Pete Seeger, Bess Lomax, Butch Hawes, Ernst Busch1995Album
More Together Again (In Concert) - Volume OneArlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger1994Album
More Together Again (In Concert) - Volume TwoArlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger1994Album
Darling Corey And Goofing-Off SuitePete Seeger1993Compil.
Live At NewportPete Seeger1993Album
Clearwater ClassicsPete Seeger1993Compil.
Yankee DoodlePete Seeger1992Compil.
Pete Seeger’s Family ConcertPete Seeger1992Album
Pete Seeger Singalong - Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1980Pete Seeger1991Album
16 Great SongsWoody Guthrie, Pete Seeger1990Compil.
Concierto En VivoPete Seeger, León Gieco1990Album
Folkways: A vision revisitedLeadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger1989Album
The "American Folk Song" CollectionPete Seeger1989Compil.
Peace & Freedom In South AmericaPete Seeger, Illapu, Osvaldo Torres, Capri1987Album
Carry It On (Songs Of America's Working People)Pete Seeger, Jane Sapp, Si Kahn1986Album
Pete SeegerPete Seeger1986Single
Abiyoyo : Pete Seeger's StorysongPete Seeger1986Single
Hootenanny With Pete SeegerPete Seeger1986Album
Pete SeegerPete Seeger1986Compil.
Pete SeegerPete Seeger1986Album
HarpHolly Near, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Gilbert and Pete Seeger with Jeff Langley1985Album
Can't You See This System's Rotten Through And Through?Pete Seeger1985Album
Live At The Royal Festival HallPete Seeger With Illapu1985Album
Pete Seeger Ao Vivo Em LisboaPete Seeger1984Album
Volume 1Pete Seeger1983Compil.
2 LP'sPete Seeger1983Compil.
Vol. 2Pete Seeger1983Compil.
Folk Music RadioWoody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, Josh White1982Compil.
Precious FriendArlo Guthrie / Pete Seeger1982Album
How I Hunted The Lttle Fellows Read By Pete SeegerPete Seeger & Борис Житков1980Album
Equilibrium (The National Audubon Society's Album Of Songs Of Nature And Humanity)Dave Laing • Tom Wisner • Pete Seeger • Woody Guthrie1980Album
Singalong - Enregistrement LivePete Seeger1980Album
Pete Seeger Canta A Woody GuthriePete Seeger1979Album
Circles & SeasonsPete Seeger1979Album
We Shall OvercomePete Seeger1978Album
The Essential Pete Seeger volume 2Pete Seeger1978Album
The Essential Pete SeegerPete Seeger1978Compil.
Canta Pete SeegerPete Seeger1977Album
Pete SeegerPete Seeger1976Compil.
Fifty Sail On Newburgh Bay - Hudson Valley Songs, Old & NewPete Seeger & Ed Renehan1976Album
This Land Is Your Land / Michael Row The Boat AshorePete Seeger & Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick Featuring Big Bird1976Single
If A Revolution Comes To My Country... Om Revolutionen Kommer Till Mitt Land...Pete Seeger1975Album
Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie Together In ConcertPete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie1975Album
Banks Of MarblePete Seeger1974Album
Visit Sesame StreetPete Seeger & Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick1974Album
America's BalladeerPete Seeger1973Compil.
The World Of Pete SeegerPete Seeger1972Compil.
Quinzaine De L'Ecole Publique 1972 - FolksongSteve Waring, Pete Seeger, John Wright1972Album
Pete Seeger At The Village GatePete Seeger With Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon1972Single
Golden Slumbers (Lullabies From Near And Far)Pete Seeger / Oscar Brand1972Album
Ballads Of Black AmericaRev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, Pete Seeger, Jeanne Humphries1972Album
Rainbow RacePete Seeger1971Album
Last Train To Nuremberg / My Rainbow RacePete Seeger1971Single
Where Have All The Flowers Gone?Pete Seeger1970Album
America The BeautifulPete Seeger1970Single
Young Vs. OldPete Seeger1969Album
Cantemos Con Pete Seeger, Vol IPete Seeger1969Album
John Henry And Other Folk FavoritesPete Seeger1969Album
Sings And Answers Questions (At The Ford Hall Forum Boston Massachussets)Pete Seeger1968Album
Wimoweh And Other Songs Of Freedom And ProtestPete Seeger1968Compil.
Last Night I Had The Strangest DreamPete Seeger1968Single
Pete Seeger Sings LeadbellyPete Seeger1968Album
NowPete Seeger With Bernice Johnson Reagon & Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick1968Album
Waist Deep In The Big Muddy And Other Love SongsPete Seeger1967Album
Pete Seeger's Greatest HitsPete Seeger1967Compil.
Bought Me A Cat (And Other Animal Folk Songs)Pete Seeger1967Single
Pete Seeger Sings Woody GuthriePete Seeger1967Album
Down By The Riverside / Waist Deep In The Big MuddyPete Seeger1967Single
Traditional Christmas CarolsPete Seeger1967Album
We Shall OvercomePete Seeger1967Single
GuantanameraPete Seeger1967Single
The Pete Seeger StoryPete Seeger1967Compil.
The Pete Seeger BoxPete Seeger1966Album
God Bless The GrassPete Seeger1966Album
We Shall OvercomePete Seeger1966Single
На Концерте Пита СигераPete Seeger1966Album
Pete SeegerPete Seeger1966Album
The Draft Dodger RagPete Seeger1966Single
Dangerous Songs!?Pete Seeger1966Album
Protest And Folk Song - Blowin' In The WindBob Dylan / Pete Seeger1966Compil.
Zpívá Americké Lidové Písně A BaladyPete Seeger1966Compil.
Big Bill Broonzy And Pete Seeger In ConcertBig Bill Broonzy And Pete Seeger1965Album
Healing RiverPete Seeger1965Single
On CampusPete Seeger1965Album
Sing With SeegerPete Seeger1965Album
Strangers And CousinsPete Seeger1965Album
We Shall OvercomePete Seeger1965Single
!Folk Music! Live At The Village GatePete Seeger1965Album
Sings Little Boxes & Other BroadsidesPete Seeger1965Album
Folk Songs With The SeegersPete Seeger And Peggy Seeger And Mike Seeger1965Album
'D' Day DodgersPete Seeger1965Single
Folk Music! Live At The Village GatePete Seeger1965Album
Folk MusicPete Seeger1965Single
In PersonPete Seeger1965Album
BroadsidesPete Seeger1965Album
Freight TrainPete Seeger1964Album
We Shall OvercomePete Seeger1964Single
Ye Playboys And PlaygirlsBob Dylan / Pete Seeger / Joan Baez1964Single
Blowing In The WindBob Dylan / Pete Seeger / Joan Baez1964Single
Folk Song HootenannyThe Brothers Four, Pete Seeger, The New Christy Minstrels, The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem1964Compil.
Healing River / (The Ring On My Finger Is) Johnny Give MePete Seeger1964Single
We Shall OvercomePete Seeger1964Single
38 Favorite American Folk SongsLeadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger1964Compil.
Little BoxesPete Seeger1964Single
We Shall OvercomePete Seeger1964Single
Sing With Seeger! Live - At The Village Gate (Greenwich Village)Pete Seeger1964Album
With God On Our SideBob Dylan / Pete Seeger / Joan Baez1964Single
The Soil And The SeaPete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Peter Hawes1964Compil.
Songs Of Struggle & Protest: 1930-1950Pete Seeger1964Compil.
In Concert - I Can See A New DayPete Seeger1964Album
Broadsides - Songs And Ballads Sung By Pete SeegerPete Seeger1964Album
GuantanameraPete Seeger1963Single
Live HootenanyPete Seeger1963Album
Pete Seeger in ConcertPete Seeger1963Single
We Shall OvercomePete Seeger1963Single
Children's Concert At Town HallPete Seeger1963Album
We Shall OvercomePete Seeger1963Album
In Concert Vol 2Pete Seeger1963Album
Story Of The Nativity The BirthPete Seeger1963Album
Sing Out! Hootenanny With Pete Seeger And The HooteneersPete Seeger1963Album
Broadside Ballads Vol. 2Pete Seeger1963Compil.
The 12-String Guitar As Played By LeadbellyPete Seeger1963Album
HootenannyPete Seeger, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Mike Seeger, Bonnie Dobson, Bill Keith, Jim Rooney1963Album
We Shall OvercomePete Seeger1963Album
American Game And Activity Songs For ChildrenPete Seeger1962Album
A Spontaneous Performance Recording! The Clancy Brothers And Tommy MakemThe Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem With Pete Seeger, Bruce Langhorne1962Album
Pete Seeger At The Village Gate, Vol. 2Pete Seeger With Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon1962Album
The Bitter And The SweetPete Seeger1962Album
Story SongsPete Seeger1961Album
Sing Out With PetePete Seeger1961Album
Gazette, Vol. 2Pete Seeger1961Album
American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 4Pete Seeger1961Album
Folk Songs For Young PeoplePete Seeger1960Album
Careless Love / Times Are Getting HardPete Seeger / Leon Bibb1960Single
Pete Seeger At The Village GatePete Seeger With Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon1960Album
Champlain Valley SongsPete Seeger1960Album
Indian SummerPete Seeger1960Album
The Rainbow QuestPete Seeger1960Album
American PlaypartiesPete Seeger, Mika Seeger, Rev Larry Eisenberg1959Album
Yankee Doodle And Other Folk SongsPete Seeger1959Album
Pete Seeger's Five String Banjo TutorPete Seeger1959Album
Nonesuch And Other Folk TunesPete Seeger And Frank Hamilton1959Album
American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 3Pete Seeger1959Album
Camp Songs (With 6 To 11 Year Olds)Unknown Artist Directed And Accompanied By Pete Seeger And Erik Darling And Plastylite1959Album
Abiyoyo & Other Story Songs For Children By Pete SeegerPete Seeger1958Album
Sleep-Time Songs & Stories By Pete SeegerPete Seeger1958Album
Pete Seeger And Sonny TerryPete Seeger and Sonny Terry1958Album
Hootenanny NYCPete Seeger, Sonny Terry, Jerry Silverman, Robert DeCormier1958Single
American Favorite Ballads, Volume 2Pete Seeger1958Album
Song And Play TimePete Seeger1958Album
Pete Seeger Accompanying Himself On HIs Five Stringed BanjoPete Seeger1958Single
The Gazette, Vol. 1Pete Seeger1958Album
Jewish, Children's Songs & GamesRuth Rubin, Pete Seeger1957Album
American BalladsPete Seeger1957Album
American Favorite BalladsPete Seeger1957Album
American Industrial BalladsPete Seeger1956Album
Sings with 5-string banjoPete Seeger1956Single
With Voices Together We SingPete Seeger1956Album
Love Songs For Friends And FoesPete Seeger1956Album
American Industrial BalladsPete Seeger1956Album
Studs Terkel's Weekly Almanac On Folk Music Blues On WFMT With Big Bill Broonzy And Pete SeegerBig Bill Broonzy, Pete Seeger, Studs Terkel1956Album
Folksongs Of Four ContinentsPete Seeger With The Song Swappers1955Album
Birds Beasts Bugs And Little FishesPete Seeger1955Album
The Pete Seeger SamplerPete Seeger1955Album
The Folksinger's Guitar GuidePete Seeger1955Album
Birds Beasts Bugs And Bigger FishesPete Seeger1955Album
Goofing Off SuitePete Seeger1955Album
Frontier BalladsPete Seeger1954Album
How To Play The 5-String BanjoPete Seeger1954Album
Frontier BalladsPete Seeger1954Album
Frontier BalladsPete Seeger1954Album
How To Play The 5-String BanjoPete Seeger1954Album
American Folk Songs For ChildrenPete Seeger1954Album
A Pete Seeger Concert: Folk Songs And BalladsPete Seeger1953Album
Train To The ZooNorman Rose, Pete Seeger, The Weavers1950Album
Darling CoreyPete Seeger1950Album
Elephant And The Ass / Travelin'Goodson And Vale / Pete Seeger1946Album
Songs Of The Lincoln BrigadePete Seeger, Bess Hawes, Baldwin Hawes, Tom Glazer1940Album
Keep A-Steppin' / Little Old Log Cabin In The LaneAl Brundage, Pete SeegerAlbum
One Day As I Rambled (I Never Will Marry) / Skip To My LouPete SeegerSingle
We Shall Overcome: The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert: Historic Recording Of June 8, 1963Pete SeegerCompil.
HootenannyPete SeegerSingle
The House Carpenter / In The Evening When The Sun Goes DownPete SeegerSingle
Live Concert - Volume IIPete SeegerAlbum
The Roots Of FolkJudy Collins, Pete Seeger, Eric Weissberg, Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry, Carolyn HesterAlbum
Pete Seeger In Concert Incluyendo Su Gran Creacion GuantanameraPete SeegerAlbum
The House CarpenterPete SeegerSingle
Let's All Join InPete SeegerAlbum
Let's All Join InPete SeegerAlbum
Old Devil Time / The Rake And Work Your ShowPete Seeger / Pacific Gas & ElectricSingle
Songs From The West Volume 16Pete Seeger - Woody Guthrie - Cisco HoustonCompil.
Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase // Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy / "T" For TexasPete SeegerAlbum
In Concert, SingsPete SeegerSingle
GuantanameraPete SeegerSingle
The Weavers' SongbagThe Weavers : Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays And Fred HellermanCompil.
I Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die RagPete SeegerSingle
South African Freedom SongsPete Seeger, Robert Harter, Garrett Morris, Guy Carawan, Ned WrightSingle
Little Boxes / Where Have All The Flowers GonePete SeegerSingle
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