Artist: Pete Seeger

Aliases

Pete Seeger With The Song Swappers
Peter Seeger and His Five String Banjo

Born

May 3, 1919

Country

United States

Comments

Legendary folksinger and political activist.

Member of

The Almanac Singers
Washboard Band
The Weavers

Family

Mike Seeger Half-brother
Peggy Seeger Half-sister

Performances

Originals

	Title	Performer	Release date	Covered by
1	The Bells of Rhymney	Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry	1958	(14 artists)
2	Black and White	Pete Seeger	1956	(9 artists)
3	From Way Up Here	Pete Seeger	1964	(2 artists)
4	Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream	Pete Seeger	1956	(12 artists)
5	Little Boxes	Pete Seeger	1963	(9 artists)
6	My Rainbow Race	Pete Seeger	1971	(3 artists)
7	Oh, Had I a Golden Thread	Pete Seeger	July 1960	(5 artists)
8	Waist Deep in the Big Muddy	Pete Seeger	1967	(4 artists)
9	What Did You Learn In School Today?	Pete Seeger	November 1963	(5 artists)
10	Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Pete Seeger	July 1960	(46 artists)
11	Who Killed Davey Moore?	Pete Seeger	November 1963	(4 artists)
12	The Willing Conscript	Pete Seeger	1963	Tom Paxton

Covers

	Title	Performer	Release date	Originally by
1	A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall	Pete Seeger	1963	Bob Dylan
2	Alabama Bound	Pete Seeger	1958	Prince's Orchestra
3	All Mixed Up	Pete Seeger	1965
4	All My Trials	Pete Seeger	1961	Bob Gibson
5	Amazing Grace	Arlo Guthrie/Pete Seeger	1982
6	America the Beautiful	Pete Seeger	1961	Frank Sinatra With The Ken Lane Singers
7	Ballad of Ira Hayes	Pete Seeger	1963	Peter La Farge
8	Banks of the Ohio	Pete Seeger	1961	Ernest V. Stoneman
9	Barbara Allen	Peter Seeger and His Five String Banjo	1957
10	Be Kind to Your Parents	6 to 11 Year Olds Directed and Accompanied by Pete Seeger and Erik Darling and the Song Swappers	1955	Florence Henderson and Lloyd Reese
11	Black Girl	Pete Seeger	1958
12	Black Is the Color	Pete Seeger	1958	John Jacob Niles
13	Blowin' in the Wind	Pete Seeger	1965	Bob Dylan
14	Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)	Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon with Pete Seeger	1962	Jimmie Rodgers
15	Careless Love	Pete Seeger	1958	Bessie Smith
16	Circles	Arlo Guthrie/Pete Seeger	1982	The New Seekers
17	Didn't Old John Cross the Water?/Michael, Row the Boat Ashore	Pete Seeger	1956
18	Done Laid Around	Pete Seeger	1960	Ollis Martin
19	Erie Canal	Pete Seeger	1944	Billy Murray
20	Farther Along	Pete Seeger	1962
21	Foggy Dew	Pete Seeger	1962
22	Forever Young	Pete Seeger	January 24, 2012	Bob Dylan
23	Frog Went A-Courtin'	Pete Seeger	1954
24	Ghost of Tom Joad	Pete Seeger & Bruce Springsteen	2007	Bruce Springsteen
25	Gypsy Davy	Peter Seeger and His Five String Banjo	1957
26	House of the Rising Sun	Pete Seeger	1958	Ashley and Foster
27	I'm Gonna Be an Engineer	Pete Seeger	1979	Peggy Seeger, Ewan MacColl
28	If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)	Arlo Guthrie/Pete Seeger	1982	The Weavers
29	If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)	Pete Seeger	1956	The Weavers
30	Joe Hill	Pete Seeger	1964	Michael Loring
31	John Hardy	Peter Seeger and His Five String Banjo	1957	Eva Davis
32	John Henry	Peter Seeger and His Five String Banjo	1957
33	Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho	Pete Seeger	1960	Harrod's Jubilee Singers
34	Kisses Sweeter than Wine	Arlo Guthrie/Pete Seeger	1982	The Weavers - Leadbelly
35	Kisses Sweeter than Wine	Pete Seeger	1956	The Weavers - Leadbelly
36	Little Margaret	Pete Seeger	1956
37	Lonesome Valley	Pete Seeger	1980	The Carter Family
38	Masters of War	Pete Seeger	1965	Bob Dylan
39	Midnight Special	Pete Seeger	1958	Dave Cutrell with McGinty's Oklahoma Cow Boy Band
40	Oh Susanna	Pete Seeger	1958
41	Old Dan Tucker	Pete Seeger	1957
42	Passing Through	Pete Seeger	1956	Dick Blakeslee
43	Paths of Victory	Pete Seeger	1965	Bob Dylan
44	Pretty Polly	Peter Seeger and His Five String Banjo	1957
45	Red River Valley	Pete Seeger	1962	Hugh Cross and Riley Puckett
46	She Moves Through the Fair	Pete Seeger	1956
47	Shenandoah	Pete Seeger	1958	Henry Burr & Albert Campbell
48	Spanish is the Loving Tongue	Pete Seeger	July 1960
49	Stagolee	Pete Seeger	1958
50	Study War No More	Pete Seeger	1956	Fisk University Jubilee Singers
51	Summertime	Pete Seeger	1962	Abbie Mitchell
52	T.B. Blues	Pete Seeger	1962	Jimmie Rodgers
53	The Bells of Rhymney	Pete Seeger	1959	Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry
54	The Bourgeois Blues	Pete Seeger	1964	Leadbelly
55	The Draft Dodger Rag	Pete Seeger	1966	The Mitchell Trio
56	The Greenland Whalers	Pete Seeger With The Song Swappers	1955
57	The Lonesome Valley	Joan Baez & Pete Seeger	1982	The Carter Family
58	The Power and the Glory	Pete Seeger	January 1966	Phil Ochs
59	The Riddle Song	Pete Seeger	1958
60	The Water Is Wide	Pete Seeger	1958
61	This Land is Your Land	Pete Seeger with Sweet Honey in the Rock, Doc Watson & The Little Red School House Chorus	1988	Woody Guthrie
62	Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)	Pete Seeger	January 1963	The Limeliters
63	Wabash Cannonball	Arlo Guthrie/Pete Seeger	1982	The Carter Family
64	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	Arlo Guthrie/Pete Seeger	1982	The Carter Family - William McEwan
65	Wimoweh (Mbube)	Arlo Guthrie/Pete Seeger	1982	The Weavers - Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds
66	You Are My Sunshine	Pete Seeger	1961	Pine Ridge Boys
67	¿Which Side Are You On?	Ani DiFranco featuring Pete Seeger	January 17, 2012

Songs written by

Original songs

	Title	Written by	Covered by
1	All Mixed Up	Pete Seeger
2	Fi-Li-Mi-Oo-Re-Ay	Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman, Ronnie Gilbert	The Spinners [1]
3	From Way Up Here	Pete Seeger, Malvina Reynolds	(2 artists)
4	My Rainbow Race	Pete Seeger	(3 artists)
5	Oh, Had I a Golden Thread	Pete Seeger	(5 artists)
6	The Bells of Rhymney	Pete Seeger, Idris Davies	(14 artists)
7	The Hammer Song	Pete Seeger, Lee Hays	(51 artists)
8	Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)	Pete Seeger	(35 artists)
9	Waist Deep in the Big Muddy	Pete Seeger	(4 artists)
10	Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Pete Seeger	(46 artists)

Adapted songs

	Title	Written by	Originals	Covered by
1	Gotta Travel On	Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman, Paul Clayton, Larry Ehrlich, David Lazar	[Traditional Melody]	(23 artists)
2	House of the Rising Sun	Pete Seeger	The Rising Sun Blues
3	Kisses Sweeter than Wine	Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman, Ronnie Gilbert	If It Wasn't for Dicky	(21 artists)

Releases

Audio album

	Title	Performer	Release date	Label
1	2 Broadside	Pete Seeger	1963	Broadside
2	American Ballads	Peter Seeger and His Five String Banjo	1957	Folkways
3	American Banjo	Pete Seeger	1944	Asch Recordings
4	American Favorite Ballads	Pete Seeger	1957	Folkways
5	American Favorite Ballads - Songs and Tunes, Vol. 5	Pete Seeger	1962	Folkways
6	American Favorite Ballads - Volume Two	Pete Seeger	1958	Folkways
7	American Favorite Ballads, Volume Four	Pete Seeger	1961	Folkways
8	Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Little Fishes	Pete Seeger	1954	Folkways
9	The Bitter and the Sweet	Pete Seeger	January 1963	Columbia
10	Broadsides - Songs and Ballads	Pete Seeger	1964	Folkways
11	Camp Songs	6 to 11 Year Olds Directed and Accompanied by Pete Seeger and Erik Darling and the Song Swappers	1955	Scholastic Records
12	Circles & Seasons	Pete Seeger	1979	Warner Bros.
13	Dangerous Songs!?	Pete Seeger	1966	Columbia
14	Folk Songs for Young People	Pete Seeger	1960	Folkways
15	Folksongs of Four Continents	Pete Seeger With The Song Swappers	1955	Folkways
16	God Bless the Grass	Pete Seeger	January 1966	Columbia
17	Little Boxes & Other Broadsides	Pete Seeger	1965	Verve Folkways
18	Love Songs for Friends & Foes	Pete Seeger	1956	Folkways
19	Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry	Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry	1958	Folkways
20	Precious Friend	Arlo Guthrie/Pete Seeger	1982	Warner Bros.
21	The Rainbow Quest	Pete Seeger	July 1960	Folkways
22	Sing-A-Long	Pete Seeger	1980	Folkways
23	Songs of Struggle & Protest - 1930-1950	Pete Seeger	1964	Folkways
24	Strangers and Cousins	Pete Seeger	1965	CBS
25	Studs Terkel's Weekly Almanac - Radio Programme, No. 4 - Folk Music and Blues	Studs Terkel, Big Bill Broonzy and Pete Seeger	1956	Folkways
26	Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Other Love Songs	Pete Seeger	1967	Columbia
27	We Shall Overcome	Pete Seeger	November 1963	Columbia
28	With Voices Together We Sing	Pete Seeger	1956	Folkways

Audio single

	Title	Performer	Release date	Label
1	My Rainbow Race	Pete Seeger	1971	Columbia

Performances also appear on

	Title	Performer	Release date	Label
1	A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly	various artists	1988	CBS
2	Chimes of Freedom - The Songs of Bob Dylan - Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International	various artists	January 24, 2012	Amnesty International
3	Folk Festival at Newport Volume 1	various artists	1959	Vanguard
4	Hootenanny at Carnegie Hall	various artists	1960	Folkways
5	Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon at the Village Gate	Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon	1962	Folkways
6	Sowing the Seeds - the 10th Anniversary	various artists	2007	Appleseed Recordings
7	Very Early Joan	Joan Baez	1982	Vanguard
8	¿Which Side Are You On?	Ani DiFranco	January 17, 2012	Righteous Babe

Tributes

	Title	Performer	Release date	Label
1	Where Have All The Flowers Gone - The Songs of Pete Seeger	various artists	March 17, 1998	Appleseed Recordings
2	If I Had a Song - The Songs of Pete Seeger Vol. 2	various artists	2001	Appleseed Recordings

Forum topics

	Topic	Board	Started by	Replies	Last message
1	Wayfaring Stranger cover by Pete Seeger	Add songs	flip	0	2009-11-07 14:44:50 GMT by flip
2	Peter, Paul & Mary	Add songs	zan	2	2010-10-27 17:41:31 GMT by Canary
3	Wimoweh cover by Pete Seeger	Add songs	sebastiaanl	0	2010-11-11 22:31:56 GMT by sebastiaanl
4	Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring cover by Peter Seeger	Add songs	sebastiaanl	0	2010-12-21 21:49:11 GMT by sebastiaanl
5	Blue Skies cover by Peter Seeger	Add songs	sebastiaanl	0	2010-12-21 21:56:15 GMT by sebastiaanl
6	Bring Me a Li'l Water Silvy [Leadbelly] covers	Add songs	Dave Nebraski	3	2011-04-06 18:40:08 GMT by artsinspired
7	Ballad of Ira Hayes - Pete Seeger	Add songs	sebastiaanl	1	2011-09-10 04:58:53 GMT by tsk
8	Fi-Li-Mi-Oo-Re-Ay	Add songs	Dave Nebraski	1	2012-02-10 22:49:37 GMT by Dave Nebraski
9	The Lion Sleeps Tonight covers	Add songs	bacon	1	2012-11-24 10:28:07 GMT by Limbabwe
10	Artists who have covered their songs	Discussion	Simon	14	2013-03-04 21:26:48 GMT by Bastien
11	On Top Of Old Smoky [George Reneau] covers	Add songs	jojo	0	2013-05-17 16:51:31 GMT by jojo