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

Alice's Restaurant

1969

All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music

1977

Rainbow Quest

1965

Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!

1990

ReMastered: The Lion's Share

2019

The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack

2000

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

1970

Tribute to Harry Chapin

1991

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

1999

Festival

1967

An Act of Conscience

1997

Palme

2012

I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War

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Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'

1984

Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie

1988

Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970

2019

Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

2002

Give Me the Banjo

2011

Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home

2006

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

2011

Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation

2013

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

2007

The Internationale

2000

Freedom Summer

2014

The Creative Person: The Folksinger

1965

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

2004

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

2007

The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time

1982

Newport and the Great Folk Dream

2025

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

1990

Pete and Toshi Get a Camera

2015

Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan

2008

Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists

1983

BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie

1988

Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center

1989

To Hear Your Banjo Play

1947

Ella Jenkins Live at the Smithsonian

2007

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Strange Fruit

2002

Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie Story

1996

Down By The Riverside

2023

The Winding Stream

2014

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

2013

Canto Libre - den fria sången

1980

Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration

1977

The Streets of Greenwood

1962

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

2003

Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie: Together in Concert

1978

The Foolish Frog

1971