Pete Seeger - Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits
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Artist: Pete SeegerEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-04-09
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Little Boxes
- Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
- Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
- Abiyoyo
- The Bells Of Rhymney
- Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)
- Talking Union
- Which Side Are You On
- We Shall Overcome
- Living In The Country
- Darling Corey
- Guantanamera
- Waist Deep In The Big Muddy (Bonus Track)
- Barbara Allen (Bonus Track)
- This Land Is Your Land (Bonus Track)
- Michael Row The Boat Ashore (Bonus Track)
Free Music Notes for Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: A good set of selections featuring Pete Seeger at his best
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD represents one set of Pete Seeger's most well known works. No single CD can encompass the broad body of Seeger's work. But this does provide a sense of his art. Seeger wrote some of the songs; some were created by other artists. But he was able to make them his own. As one listens to the sings, there are a few basic characteristics: simplicity of his singing, simplicity of his guitar work, and a genuine earnestness.
"Little Boxes" was not one of his own compositions, but he provides an inimitable and good-humored version. The live audience laughs at some points, as he proceeds from verse to verse in this satirical piece.
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone" is one of his best-known compositions. This classical political sung is well sung; he takes it at a slow pace, and this adds a degree of power to the work.
One of my personal Seeger favorites. . . . "Turn, Turn, Turn" uses language from the Biblical book, "Ecclesiastes." As so often, he uses those words to make some political points. As usual, his simply singing and guitar playing is effective and the effect telling.
"Which Side Are You on" is an old union song. It was someone else's composition, but Seeger makes it his own; the audience sing-along is attractive.
Then, there is "We Shall Overcome." This civil rights anthem is eloquently sung by Seeger.
Four songs were added to the original album, with two of the best addenda being "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" and the redoubtable and enchanting "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore."
Wonderful! If one like Seeger, this is a good compilation to refresh your memories of his work. If you never really knew much about Seeger, this is a very nice introduction.
Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits Poster
Pete Seeger's recording career covers more than 60 years, so a single-CD collection is bound to leave out more than a few worthy songs. But the 16 selections on Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits include indispensable Seeger-composed classics like "Turn! Turn! Turn!," "Bells of Rhymney," and an abbreviated a cappella version of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" Also included are songs Seeger popularized, such as "Wimoweh," which he learned from Solomon Linda's original South African recording in the 1940s, and "Guantanamera," which he picked up from some children at a Catskills summer camp where he was singing. All of the performances are drawn from his 1960s tenure at Columbia Records--only the first 12 tracks were included on the original 1967 package--and include both studio and live recordings. This CD features only a small fraction of the songs that could legitimately be called Seeger's greatest hits, but because most of these selections are so important to his career, this set can be thought of as the greatest of his greatest hits. --Michael SimmonsFolk Music CDs
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