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Pete Seeger dies at 94
Fox News ^ | 1/28/2014 | Fox News

Posted on 01/28/2014 5:58:18 AM PST by Mercat

NEW YORK – Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music heritage, died Monday at the age of 94.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: 4ththread; antiamerican; communism; folkmusic; hollywoodreds; music; nakedcommunist; obit; obituary; peteseeger; prodictator; seeger
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To: skeeter

*Off to that workers paradise in the sky.
Or some other place. *

He has an appointment with Hitler and a pineapple...


61 posted on 01/28/2014 8:30:40 AM PST by PATRIOT1876
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To: ArtDodger; Ditto
Aug 23, 1939. Hitler-Stalin Pact

The first album by the Almanac Singers "Songs for John Doe" was released in May 1941, included
    Ballad of October 16
    Billy Boy
    'C' For Conscription

Can you use a bayonet, Billy boy, Billy boy?
Can you use a bayonet, charming Billy?
No, I haven't got the skill to murder and to kill...

Jun 22, 1941. Nazis invade Soviet Union

1942. Album "Dear Mr. President"
    Reuben James
    Round and round Hitler's grave

Must have been dizzying to have been a premature anti-fascist and then a premature pro-fascist and then an anti-fascist

62 posted on 01/28/2014 8:31:02 AM PST by omega4412
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To: Mercat

I know on this forum, the following comments will be less than fully appreciated, but hey ...

My mom (RIP) was full on into the great folk scare of the late 50s and early 60s. I grew up on this stuff.

The Weavers (even though they were earlier), The New Christie Minstrels, Kingston Trio, Dylan, Joan Baez, Woody and Pete.

I still have my copy of his The Folk Singers Guitar Guide from which I learned some songs. Still play today.

You’ll have to forgive me for not spitting on his grave.


63 posted on 01/28/2014 10:39:15 AM PST by dmz
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To: Mercat

Ol’ ‘If I had a hammer .. and a sickle’ Pete..

dead at 94? we all should be so lucky.


64 posted on 01/28/2014 10:39:17 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: Mercat

To quote the song “Teen Angst” by “Cracker”

“What the world needs now/Is another folk singer/Like I need a hole in my head.”


65 posted on 01/28/2014 10:40:57 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: NormsRevenge

The Devil takes care of his own.


66 posted on 01/28/2014 10:42:17 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: omega4412
Was he the one who had on his guitar "This Machine Kills Fascists"? Here's my retort....


67 posted on 01/28/2014 10:44:13 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
I posted this on another thread but I should add it here as well. In the end Seegar finally admitted his wrongful support of Stalin as cited below:

Jack Cashill has done a marvelous job in Hoodwinked and elsewhere over the years documenting fellow travelers of the 30s and 40s and how they eventually helped found the New Left Progressivism.

In a WND review in 2007 he cites in a movie review how Seegar finally repented from his support of Stalinsm and actually gives him some credit for coming clean about it.

But it focuses more on the folksinger as hero and victim, rather than shill for Soviet Stalinism.

But, if the movie doesn’t quite get it right, Seeger himself seems determined to repent of old sins.

In a letter to his former banjo student and writer Ron Radosh, he confesses: “I think you’re right – I should have asked to see the gulags when I was in USSR.”

Pete Seeger testifying before House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955

Seeger has even written a song denouncing Josef Stalin, a song inspired by what he thought his mentor, Woody Guthrie, might have written about the fall of the Soviet Union had he been around.

It’s called “The Big Joe Blues” – a song Radosh says “makes the point that Joe Stalin was far more dangerous and a threat than Joe McCarthy

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2007/10/44217/#2cI526PC4Ah6PQw4.99

If Cashill can cut him a little slack, I think we should cite the instance to go along with our just criticism.

68 posted on 01/28/2014 11:39:22 AM PST by KC Burke (Officially since Memorial Day they are the Gimmie-crat Party.ha)
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To: KC Burke

So he’s a Trotskyite. Even Khrushchev denounced Stalin.


69 posted on 01/28/2014 11:40:52 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: omega4412; dmz

All the communists reversed once Hitler attacked the Soviet Union — all of a sudden, they were with the Allies.

See my comment at #68 below where at the end of his life he finally reverses again and disavows Stalin with a later song.


70 posted on 01/28/2014 11:41:55 AM PST by KC Burke (Officially since Memorial Day they are the Gimmie-crat Party.ha)
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To: KC Burke
All the communists reversed once Hitler attacked the Soviet Union — all of a sudden, they were with the Allies.

Just as after Khrushchev denounced Stalin, all of a sudden, to them Stalin was a bad guy.

71 posted on 01/28/2014 11:43:35 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dmz

I forgive you. :-D I’ve found the posts pretty harsh. But I’ve also learned a lot. Sounds like he was a flawed human being who found a way to get rich being a musician. It’s a hard industry. Hard way generally to make a living. I’m not surprised that he was a hard assed capitalist pretending to be a Marxist. Lots of that going around.


72 posted on 01/28/2014 12:15:42 PM PST by Mercat
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To: Mercat
Plow Under--The Almanac Singers (1941)

Peet Seeger was a member of the Almanacs. This anti-World War II song was inspired by a speech given by Sen. Burton K. Wheeler (D-Mont.)in January, 1941, in which he accused the Roosevelt administration of pursuing a foreign policy that would "plow under every fourth American boy."

The song was on "Songs for John Doe," an album of anti-war songs that was available for a few weeks before it was abruptly pulled off the market after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, prompting a change in the Communist Party line on intervention in the war.

73 posted on 01/28/2014 12:18:41 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: dfwgator

That’s totally cool!


74 posted on 01/28/2014 12:21:51 PM PST by februus
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To: KC Burke

I tried to find “The Big Joe Blues” on Youtube. Can’t find it.


75 posted on 01/28/2014 12:21:53 PM PST by Mercat
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To: Fiji Hill

An album in 1941? Dude, you’re stretching!


76 posted on 01/28/2014 12:24:02 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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To: Mercat

It’s not just a little chit Pete Seeger. it’s a thousand of them funded by the Soviets from the 1930s until the 1980s, affecting the public opinion and foreign policies of this country, and that is little Seeger’s crime against humanity!


77 posted on 01/28/2014 12:27:07 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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To: RJS1950

‘Now the folksinger came from America
To sing at the Albert Hall,
He sang his songs of protest
And fairer shares for all.
He sang how the poor were much too poor
And the rich too rich by far,
Then he drove back to his penthouse
In his brand new Rolls Royce car.’

-—Benny Hill, ‘What a World’, 1965.


78 posted on 01/28/2014 12:29:18 PM PST by the scotsman (i)
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To: the scotsman

Strangely that poem would apply equally to Obama and his SOTU tonight.


79 posted on 01/28/2014 12:37:05 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: omega4412
From "Songs for John Doe" (1941) The album's title was most likely inspired by the popular movie "Meet John Doe" (1941).
80 posted on 01/28/2014 12:39:32 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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