Pete Seeger departs

[DigitalBuddha]

Pete Seeger passes, DB's head is bowed 

Check out...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20140128/us--apnewsalert/?utm_hp_ref=media&ir=media

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger



Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919 - died January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950.[2] Members of The Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture and environmental causes.

As a song writer, he is best known as the author or co-author of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (with Joe Hickerson), "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)", (composed with Lee Hays of The Weavers), and "Turn, Turn, Turn!", which have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement and are still sung throughout the world. "Flowers" was a hit recording for The Kingston Trio (1962); Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962); and Johnny Rivers (1965). "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for Peter, Paul & Mary (1962) and Trini Lopez (1963), while The Byrds popularized "Turn, Turn, Turn!" in the mid-1960s, as did Judy Collins in 1964, and The Seekers in 1966.

Seeger was one of the folksingers most responsible for popularizing the spiritual "We Shall Overcome" (also recorded by Joan Baez and many other singer-activists) that became the acknowledged anthem of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement, soon after folk singer and activist Guy Carawan introduced it at the founding meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. In the PBS "American Masters" episode Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, Seeger states it was he who changed the lyric from the traditional "We will overcome" to the more singable "We shall overcome".

[Rev. Iconocclesiastes]

Well, at least he lived to a ripe old age.  He was 94.

[DigitalBuddha]

Well, at least he lived to a ripe old age.  He was 94.

Fuckin' eh.

[Hominid]

Head bowed, hat in hand...  Let's all lift a pint and toast this man.  A dude indeed.

[DigitalBuddha]

Head bowed, hat in hand...  Let's all lift a pint and toast this man.  A dude indeed.

[The_Sleevez]

A sad day indeed

[jdurand]

Head bowed, hat in hand...  Let's all lift a pint and toast this man.  A dude indeed.

How do you lift a pint with you head bowed?