We'll celebrate Pete Seeger on his centennial with funk, soul, gospel, & hip-hop takes on songs Pete wrote or frequently sang and helped to popularize around the world. We'll hear from Isaac Hayes, Mavis Staples, The Freedom Singers, Earth, Wind and Fire, Billy Preston, and more!. It's Pete as you've never heard him before!
UpFront Soul #2019.17 Playlist PLEASE NOTE: Due to the vagaries of Spinitron, these songs are listed in reverse order. (i.e., Joan Armatrading Back to the Night is song 1, hour 1.
Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 on RCA Ace Cannon "If I Had a Hammer" from The Best of Ace Cannon Pete Seeger "Worried Man Blues" from The Complete Bowdoin College Concert, 1960 Billy Preston "If I Had a Hammer" from Don't Let Me Catch You Crying Dr. John "Goodnight Irene" from Trippin' Live Earth, Wind, and Fire "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" from The Eternal Dance Pete Seeger "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" from Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Other Love Songs Bill McAdoo & Pete Seeger "I'm Gonna Walk and Talk for My Freedom" from Bill McAdoo Sings with Guitar Pete Seeger "School of the Americas scene" from Pete Seeger: The Power of Song documentary Betty Mae Fikes "This Little Light of Mine" from Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966 Pete Seeger & Jeff Haynes "Fannie Lou Hamer" from Pete Seeger The Storm King- Stories, Narratives, Poems Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds "Mbube" on Gallotone Bembeya Jazz National "Guantanamera" on Editions Syliphone Conakry Singing Fishermen of Ghana "Singing Fishermen of Ghana" from Pete Seeger Family Short Films available at http://www.folkstreams.net/ Paul Robeson "John Henry" from At Carnegie Hall Paul Robeson "Joe Hill" from Songs of Struggle & More Mavis Staples "We Shall Not Be Moved" from We'll Never Turn Back The Staple Singers "Jacob's Ladder" from Freedom Highway
Rebel Diaz "Which Side Are You on? Remix (feat. Dead Prez & Rakaa Iriscience)" from Radical Dilemma on Rebel Diaz. Genre: Hip Hop/Rap Isaac Hayes "At Wattstax" from If I Had a Hammer (Live- Finale) Aretha Franklin "If I Had a Hammer" from Yeah! Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings "This Land is Your Land" from Naturally Amjad Ali Khan "We Shall Overcome" Mahalia Jackson "Down By the Riverside" from The Essential Mahalia Jackson Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "We Shall Overcome" from We Shall Overcome Louis Armstrong "We Shall Overcome" from Louis Armstrong and His Friends The Freedom Singers "If You Miss Me on the Back of the Bus" from Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966 Disc 1 Sweet Honey in the Rock "Eyes on the Prize (Hold On)" from Freedom Song- Television Soundtrack Pete Seeger and Brother Kirk Visit Sesame Street "The Ballad of Martin Luther King" from Childrens Records of America Odetta "One Grain of Sand" from One Grain of Sand Sam Cooke "If I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song) (Live)" from Sam Cooke at the Copa Nina Simone "Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything There Is A Season)" from To Love Somebody Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from Back to the Night on A&M