Playlist by Algernon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9_MpNwduAA
Kisses sweeter than wine – the Weavers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4
Turn turn turn – The Byrds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqiblXFlZuk
Dusty old Dust (So Long it’s been good to know you) – Woody Guthrie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2it5kYqkhN8
Sixteen Tons –The Weevers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJxm58htzqc
Maggies Farm – Bob Dylan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnJVkEX8O4
Waist Deep in the Muddy – Pete Seeger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y2SIIeqy34
Where have all the Flowers gone – Pete Seeger.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlSpc87Jfr0
Little Boxes – Pete Seeger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5JLCAIJLJ8
Guantanamera – Pete Seeger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b24Ewk934g
We shall overcome – Pete Seeger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va7aW1_KxP0
If I had a hammer – Peter Paul and Mary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6hBe-s40q4
There’s a valley in Spain call Jarama – Woody Guthrie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezyd40kJFq0
Forever young –Pete Seeger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG9RwcMP0hk
This Land is your Land – Pete Seeger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7XjzqPZJDc&feature=kp
Wimoweh – The Weevers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4QpKxCtfUI
Dear Mister Eisenhower – Pete Seeger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlDGHEk68XI&feature=kp
biyoyo – Pete Seeger
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
These are lovely old songs. Funny how he/they often took folk music and used it to create Folk Music. Guantanamera used to be the universal backpackers song. I don’t know why – possibly because Spanish and Anglo coming together. Heard it everywhere.
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Guantanamera seemed to be done by every person and their cat. Still, I like it. Probably from his sympathies to those fighting the Fascists during the Spanish civil war.
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Fully approved. Got a few on vinyl.
Emotive songs too.
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Glad you enjoyed it. covers a lot of it I think.
How old is the the new gravatar?
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The photograph, is from a shoot in a magazine, taken down by Putney bridge. I won’t table the magazine ( Vogue…ha ha), or somebody (I have a stalker you know) will be looking it up.
But, it’s many years old now Algy: late seventies. I invented designer stubble, don’t ya know .
I noticed that you slipped a ‘Byrds’ song in too. it was done by others, of course, and I presume Seeger wrote it. i didn’t look – honestly.
I loved the clangy jangly sound of the Byrds, with their harmony.
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Except for the hair you look the same now, only in colour of course.
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As are many Pete Seeger tunes, Turn Turn turn take much of its lyrics from Ecclesiasties 3. The Byrds version is one that I like, arguably the best known.
Vogue hey, a mover and shaker then.
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These are emotive songs, aren’t they. That is a good description.
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Pete Seeger also had a fine touch with old pre-recording American traditional music. He was a star amongst quite a few – not the least IMHO being the New Lost City Ramblers with Tom Paley. I’ll try and dig up some of their trad revival stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_V5KjWy4No
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If I could have found anything halfway decent sounding by The Almanacs I’d have included that also.
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Was he in Mary, Peter and Paul?
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No – seems they sang each other’s songs but I am not sure who wrote what. I think Peter Paul and Mary sang Seeger’s songs. They have a website http://www.peterpaulandmary.com/
Great list yet again Algy.
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Thank vivenne
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Go to the website I just put up and listen to Peter Paul and Mary sing Where have all the Flowers Gone with Pete Seeger also playing guitar. It is most certainly his song.
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He could be Mary HOO.
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My favourite was Little Boxes so befitting all the coloured fibro houses being built in the 1960s in Sydney’s outer suburbs.
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These days of course the boxes are much bigger but they’re still filled with “ticky tacky” and they still “look all the same”.
My favourite is “If I Had A Hammer”, giving away Pete’s socialist background. While he was a “card carrying commie” as the security forces so eloquently used to put it, he hated Stalin and these days his beliefs look more social democratic. The hammer of course being half the set of the international symbol of communism.
I also like “Sixteen Tons” which is structurally similar to old spirituals and curiously, US Marine marching songs, and sets a working rhythm and harks back to earlier working songs like “The Song Of The Volga Boatmen”.
This is a great selection and while many are aged, none the less, dealing as they do with the fundamental human condition, they are all apposite cultural memes in our continuing struggle to realise our greater humanity.
That and the fact that Seeger had a knack for simple sing a long tunes that you could whistle while you worked, or humm along to traveling in the back of a dusty pickup as it bounced it’s way to, where? Perhaps the Melagro Beanfield.
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He himself was aged. Recent recordings show that he still had a fine voice and as usual encouraged the audience to sing along with him. Little boxes and If I had a hammer would be my favourites here, so is Guantanamera, then I’ve always liked that tune. The litle boxes clip was quite good.
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You are right, the boxes are bigger, and so are the “ticky tacky”. I remember that song being played many years ago when Robin Boyd had published his book ‘The Australian ugliness’. There was a program on the ABC dealing with that book and the attack on the stylistic cowardice of our suburbs, it took courage to call Australia ugly. They played that song during the program!
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Tribute isn’t it to think how that song made a difference … to how certainly I …viewed the architecture of towns and the suburbs. It was on the radio all the time when I was still at High School, primarily the version sung by Burl Ives I remember.
here is the Malvina Reynolds version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs
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Tribute is those who have taken his music and intemperate it in a different way. I enjoyed this version shoe.
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It’s her song, algy, though. Yes, it has a lovely broad folk feel to it.
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Well I learnt something, I always thought it was one of his.
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I was much younger than my siblings and we sang around the piano. I remembered her name on the sheet music.
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Thanks Algy. Almost forgotten what music sounds like.
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Your welcome Gerard.
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