Pete Seeger - Wimoweh & Flowers Gone

This is from a controversial episode of the Smothers Brothers. Originally, Pete sang his song "Waist Deep In The Big Muddy" in between these two songs but CBS deemed it too political to air and deleted it from the broadcast. However, he did perform the song on a subsequent broadcast and this time CBS allowed it to air. That version is available on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjONblHLPPI

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[EllyMcCormack]

Jesus Christ... when will people like Paulph04 ever learn? Pete's always seemed to be to have a good heart. Anyone can see that by his sincere songwriting. About peace and love. Giving peace a chance.

So judgemental... so angry. You don't have to be a member of a party to show some fucking respect, peace and love for your fellow human beings. Its not about politics, having some good manners doesn't make you a liberal lefty. It makes you a man.

[finnemccool]

@savvyscottyboy Seeger arranged and popularized "We Shall Overcome", He wrote if "I had a Hammer" ,"Where have all the Flowers Gone" he arranged and popularized "Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore." He formed the folk group the Almanacs with Woody Guthrie in 1940, and later formed the Weavers. There's no way he's over rated. And he is about real American traditional values. He was against abusive authority, and stood up to McCarthyism. Young Americans today are mindless lemmings.

[Rasbiff]

@ProNorden "macro-systemic importance", "adversarial culture"... Please, mister...

[Rasbiff]

@ProNorden May I introduce to you: The Internet Genius. This sad person has spent far too many hours debating the same topics over and over with likeminded that he's come to believe that everyone can jump in his train of thought like it ain't no thang.

[ProNorden]

Nice protest against Lyndon Johnson's conduct of the Viet Nam war.

The 3 main 'macro-systemic importance' points of that war were all avoidable: 1. The successful predation by the 'corporate parasite' community shifting resources to themselves from the American Treasury and economy.

2. Losing the war to the communist totalitarian NorthVietnam by not merely supporting SouthVietnam.

3. Fostering the 'Adversarial Culture' of the New Left in the U.S. and their "long march through the institutions".

[Myrthmor]

@savvyscottyboy Why in the world would good training diminish him? Besides, his talent with the banjo is due almost entirely to his own self-motivation, since in New England no one else could play it like he did. Also, Pete is the ideal American, and gave peace activists and unionizers a musical platform on which to gather. No other folk artist did as much hands-on work to make tangible change for good in the world.

[Myrthmor]

I think Pete Seeger is an example of the ideal human soul. Every bit of his personal demeanor and performance style is perfectly genuine and classy. Adding his brilliant musicianship and his persistence as a force for good throughout his entire career to that sincerity makes him my greatest hero. The most unambiguously good-natured artist and activist I know of.

[thisherecat2]

Not someone I'd invite to a party. Or even for tea.

[jshalom65]

Totally agree on Nobel prize.When MLK and Jimmy Carter won it it meant something,but giving it to Obama his first year in office was a not so funny joke.As of today american forces are bombing 6 countries(and these are just the ones we know about).The military-industrial complex goes marching on............................

[KITCHENOFDISTINCTION]

Great.