Pete Seeger

Rolling Stone ran a nice story on Pete Seeger’s death yesterday at the age of 94. WXPN’s David Dye also posted some nice reflections.

WXPN’s “Select-A-Song” set this morning is below. (Seeger didn’t write “This Land Is Your Land,” but frequently performed the Woody Guthrie classic.)

• Pete Seeger - We Shall Overcome - Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits
• The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn! - Turn! Turn! Turn!
• Pete Seeger - If I Had A Hammer (the Hammer Song) - If I Had A Hammer: Songs Of Hope And Struggle
• Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings - This Land Is Your Land - Up In The Air (Music From The Motion Picture)
• Tommy Sands, Dolores Kean & Vedran Smailovic - Where Have All The Flowers Gone - Where Have All The Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger

When I first got seriously into music in 1965, the record that I put on my Christmas list was the Byrds album Turn! Turn! Turn! Mom & Dad got me a Herb Alpert LP instead (could have been worse), but my aunt and uncle came through.