Pete Seeger - Folk Songs for Young People
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Artist: Pete SeegerEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-09-24
Music Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Soundtracks:
- Skip To My Lou
- Blow The Man Down
- Weave-Room Blues
- The Farmer Is The Man
- Wood-Chopping Song
- Four Pence A Day
- Vigndig A Fremd Kind
- Way Down Yonder In The Cornfield
- Pepsi-Cola
- Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
- Joshua Fought The Battle Of Jericho
- Oh, Worrycare
- On Top Of Old Smokey
- Goodnight, Irene
- John Henry
- Dayenu
- It Could Be A Wonderful World
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Pete Seeger has become an American tradition right along with the songs he sings. This recording, first released in 1959, captures and conveys Pete's personal warmth, engaging style, and ability to educate children while entertaining them. He sings old favorites such as "On Top of Old Smokey," "Skip to My Lou," and "John Henry," introducing them as songs "you never hear on the radio,...on jukeboxes,...or on TV...Just ordinary songs which one person teaches to another." These songs have endured as part of the American soundscape partly because of Pete's tireless dedication to their preservation. This album gives a whole new generation of children the opportunity to learn and sing these classic American folksongs. Appropriate for children ages 5 and up.There's a reason why Pete Seeger--despite a lifetime of good deeds on behalf of the environment, the workingman, and other worthy causes--is best known for his renditions of children's folk songs. This album, originally released in 1959, goes a long way to explaining why. Starting with "Skip to My Lou," winding southward toward "Wood-Chopping Song," "Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield," and "On Top of Old Smoky," and ending with the wistful "It Could Be a Wonderful World," Young People grabs hold from the opening syllable. Seeger introduces his crop of preserved treasures as "just ordinary songs which one person teaches to another," and guides us ever reassuringly toward sepia-toned landscapes of lost America. There, channeled through a warm voice and a plunking banjo, we encounter sailors ("Blow the Man Down"), factory workers ("Weave-Room Blues"), farmers ("The Farmer Is the Man"), babysitters ("Vigndig a Fremd Kind"), and heroes ("John Henry") with sad or celebratory or silly tales to tell. It's part history lesson, part boomer nostalgia trip. Given the renewed appreciation in the U.S. for folks who roll up their sleeves in 2002, the timing couldn't be better. --Tammy La Gorce
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