Down By The Riverside - Pete Seeger [7/24] [1963]

[mombassano27]

best video in youtube

[marxistbros370]

This is the most hilarious thing I've ever seen.

[g3nby]

@mancheromanchero Quite baffled why you need to so insulting when I was speaking FOR black audiences who would instinctively clap on the off beat and against white audiences who generally wouldn't feel the off beat if you hit them with a baseball bat!

You're racial sensitivity blinds you to logic & courtesy! I am a honky jazz musician who's played Black music for 50 yrs. You also failed to pick up that I knew it's in OZ when I signed Pommie B'st*rd. You provide much about which to be insulting

[marxistbros370]

@g3nby

You're being unintentionally funny right now. Sure somebody is being too sensitive about something you said about black people having different rhythm than white ppl, but why call yourself a honky? It's so submissive- you can have some pride and be respectful simultaneously

[g3nby]

Sorry. Typing error on last posting.

Thanks for the info.

Even our colonial cousins are allowed to get excited and be inspired to pick up the off-beat which is the essence of this kind of music. Seeger worked them masterfully but they refused to be 'worked'. So much reserve, it could have been a jamboree for English Vicars and wives. Great show. Shame that the theatre audience audience missed it!

Regards from a Pommie B*st*rd.

[g3nby]

Notice the white audience.

A) Exclusively white.

B) Unable to clap on the off-beat

C) Too reserved to show any excitement at all.

Hardly a Gospel Meeting, eh?

....from an ageing, honky jazz muso in Olde Englande.

[MonCoeurDesCoeurs]

@g3nby

It's Melbourne Australia.

[g3nby]

@MonCoeurDesCoeurs ut the refused

[01rai01]

5:14 --> Harmonization

[Broblem12]

Awesome!! Pete is so precious to me. Wish I could meet him and give him a gentle but heartfelt hug and a huge smile. God bless you Pete!!!

[PappyMcslappy777]

You may think the audience isn't really into it but they are, i mean things were different then and there notice how they're all dressed up, people dont dress up to go to concerts these days, plus pete gets the whole place singing and laughing everyone there was loving the performance they just show it differently than its shown today in my opinion atleast

[metapenguin1]

HE......was......COOKIN'.... !!!!!!!!!!!

[wiltingplant]

this looks to have been an awesome show -- too bad the audience sucked :(

[stellador]

Bless you for uploading all these. Thanks so much.

[judydrake11]

Hyxu - in 1963, Negro was the inoffensive term used. "African American" had not yet been adopted.

[elvinmay]

God Bless Pete Seeger!

[markantonymcwhorter]

ain't gonna study war no more...a good lesson for yesterday,today, and the future!

[imaginepce27]

does any one no where i can find pete seegar and other musicians singing down by the riverside at the end of the 1963 newport festival?

[IrishandFolkmusic]

@imaginepce27 there is a small video of it somewhere here on Youtube (but not in it's entirety, it can also be found on Pete Seeger - Live In Newport CD.

[Hyxu]

Now, polcorr hypocrites and censors, if someone like Seeger can have uttered the word "negro", we all can. And will.

[Frustratedartist2]

@Hyxu you'll sure put a lot of effort to preserve your racist, primitive dialect

[MrBobbyzimmerman]

Contagious enthusiasm? The audience's faces didn't tell that story in this particular case. Compare to these performances:

Elvis watch?v=iS7La6pnnno and *especially* what they call down south "pew jumpin' music", Sister Rosetta Tharpe: watch?v=4xzr_GBa8qk

I love what Pete Seeger did with his life, and all the great music, and his work for the working men and women, but in this case, he seemed to be only talking the talk. The other two danced the dance.

[ledder68]

Sometimes the audience carries you through; sometimes you just have to slug it out. If you're afraid, you stay on the sidelines 'cause you might fail. But If you're truly brave like Pete, you put yourself out there, win or lose.

[niljuanzo]

pete is a ledgend, i have met him multible times.....at 90 years old he still has that contagious enthusiasm for music and its power.

[MrBobbyzimmerman]

@niljuanzo Enthusiasm? I love all that Pete Seeger has done, but, look at the faces in the audience. Watch the young lady in the black stockings in the first row. She actually re-crosses her legs a couple of times. I don't pretend to compare myself to Seeger, but as a small-time folk-singer, I'd say he pretty much talks this one to death. Compare this to the "pew-jumpin' " versions in these links: watch?v=iS7La6pnnno & esp. watch?v=4xzr_GBa8qk

[TerryFree3]

@MrBobbyzimmerman Let's not forget this is Australia in 1963 .... They ARE enthusiastic!!

[benoni45]

Born entertainer this man! Excellent!

[KateAnneNYC]

I was singing along with this one! Thanks for posting!

[Zeilentransformator]

5* from Germany !