Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits

by Pete Seeger

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  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1967
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 40:03
  • Community rating: 3.52/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This essential collection summarizes the massively influential songwriter's highly successful tenure with Columbia Records, a period marking his complete resurgence following the McCarthy-era blacklists. The album gathers definitive recordings of his most universally adopted folk and protest anthems, including 'Turn! Turn! Turn!' and 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?', underscoring his immense, lasting impact on the entire 1960s singer-songwriter movement.

Genres

Descriptors: Political, Folk

Tracklist

  1. Little Boxes
  2. Wimoweh (Mbube)
  3. Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
  4. Abiyoyo
  5. The Bells of Rhymney
  6. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)
  7. Talking Union
  8. Which Side Are You On
  9. We Shall Overcome
  10. Living In the Country
  11. Darling Corey
  12. Guantanamera

Credits

  • Pete Seeger - primary artist, vocals, guitar, banjo, written-by, words by [story by], adapted by, music by
  • Malvina Reynolds - written-by
  • Paul Campbell - arranged by [new words and music]
  • Traditional - written-by [melody]
  • Idris Davies - written-by
  • Lee Hays - written-by
  • Millard Lampell - written-by
  • Florence Reece - written-by

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