2006FOLK MUSIC
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| 01:02:27 147.14 |
PETE SEEGER
WALK THE LONSEONE VALLEY
(live)
PETE CALLS IT " QUITE LONELY MORNING "
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| 01:05:55 355.68 |
MOST EXHILARATING MOMENT SATNEWPORT " SINGING WITH NINE PEOPLE ON STAGE - BEING WITH THE FREEDOM SINGERS, BERNICE ABBOTT - SEEGER STRUGGLES TO FIND MEMORIES OF NEWPORT THEN BEGINS INTERVIEWING MURRAY LERNER!
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| 01:15:11 911.79 |
PETE SEEGER THOUGHTS ON NEWPORT " IT WAS THE UNUSUAL SUCCESS OF REACHING TEENAGERS AND COLLEGE STUDENTS AND A NEW MESSAGE OF COMMUNICATION - WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE CONNECTIONS THAT HAD NEVER BEEN MADE BEFORE - AND THAT IS THE HOPE OF THE WORLD NOW - THAT WE MAKE CONNECTIONS THAT WERE NEVER MADE BEFORE - IT WAS A VERY EXCITING FEW YEARS"
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| 01:16:32 992.11 |
PETE SEEGER - "I'LL NEVER FORGET NEWPORT HAVING A FEW THOUSAND DOLLARS IN THE BANK MORE THAN THEY EXPECTED AND THEY WANTED TO KNOW AN IDEA I HAD THAT THEY HADN'T HEARD OF - I HAD JUST HEARD THE RECORDS OF SPOKES MASCHIANI OF SOUTH AFRICA AND I SAID BRING THAT MAN UP AND SEE WHAT HE CAN DO - THEY SAID THAT WILL COST TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS IN THOSE DAYS TO DO THAT - WE DID IT - GEORGE SAT AT PIANO AND I ON MY 12 STRING GUITAR - PLAYED THE SAME CHORDS FOR ABOUT 15 MINUTES AND HE HAD THE ENTIRE AUDIENCE IN TH PALM OF HIS HAND - AN ASTONISHING EXPERIENCE FOR ALL OF US - NIOONE KNEW WHAT A PENNY WHISTLE COULD DO ( MURRAY LERNER) " YES I FILMED IT"
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| 01:18:25 1105.41 |
PETE " WE BROUGHT DOWN FROM QUEBEC O.J. ABBOTT - WE BROUGHT HIM DOWN FROM CANADA - " I DIDN'T REALIZE SOME OF THE YOUNGER PERFORMERS WERE - I LEFT IT TO OTHER PEOPLE TO BRING THEM ( WHAT DID YOU THINK OF KWESKIN) - GREAT PEOPLE - DAVE VAN RONK, (PETE TALKS ABOUT ODETTA ) " I FIRST HEARD HER IN 1950 IN CALIFORNIA - SHE SAT IN THE CORNER, THE ONLY BLACK PERSON THERE - LAST TIME I HEARD WOODY GUTHRIE SING - WE WERE IMPROVISING VERSES TO AN OLD IRTISH MELODY ( SINGS SONG) - WE ALL WROTE VERSES - WOODY HAD TWO VERY GOOD VERSES ABOUT THE FBI - ( SINGS WOODY'S VERSES) " I WILL POINT A GUN FOR MY COUNTRY BUT I WON'T GUARANTEE WHICH WAY "
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| 01:21:13 1273.42 |
PETE SEEGER CONTINUES HIS STORY OF FIRST HEARING AND MEETING ODETTA - SHE WAS ENCOURAGED TO SING AND SHE SANG " TAKE THIS HAMMER" LEADBELLY WOULD TAKE OF HIS HAT TO HER - HER MOTHER HAD HER STUDYING TO BE A CLASSICAL SINGER BUT SHE WENT TO FOLK MUSIC - ODETTA STORIES
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| 01:22:46 1366.39 |
PETE SEEGER ON THE CLANCY BROTHERS " WONDERFUL - THEY DID FOR IRISH MUSIC WHAT ODETTA DID FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC - TOOK IT OUT OF IT'S COMMERCIAL RUT " ( PETE'S IDEAS ON COMMERCIAL MUSIC COME OUT HERE) - TELLS A STORY ABOUT YIP HARBURG WRITING "OVER THE RAINBOW" FOR THE WIZARD OF OZ
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| 01:26:49 1609.61 |
PETE TALKS ABOUT HIS SONG " TURN TURN TURN" AND WHAT THE BYRDS DID TO RE-ARRANGE IT - JUST LIKE WHAT PETER, PAUL AND MARY REA RANGED " THE HAMMER SONG"
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| 01:28:55 1735.6 |
"PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS - THROUGHOUT HISTORY THE ESTABLISHMENT HAS TRIED TO CONTROL MUSIC BUT THE AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT HAS USED MUSIC TO KEEP CONTROL AND NEWPORT HAS BROKEN THE CONTROL AND THEY HAVE TRIED TO COME BACK EVER SINCE
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| 01:34:12 2052.82 |
PETE SEEGER " ON THE OTHER HAND DO YOU KNOW IT WAS EINSTEIN THAT STARTED FOLKWAYS RECORDS? MOSES ASH IN 1939 WENT TO PRINCETON TO RECORD EINSTEIN ON HIS PORTABLE RECORDING MACHINE - AND THERE EINSTEIN TOLD MOSES ASH ABOUT LEADBELLY I MET LEADBELLY IN NEW YORK AND NO ONE IS RECORDING HIM BECAUSE HE IN SNOT COMMERCIAL - EINSTEIN SAID AMERICANS DON'T APPRECIATE THEIR OWN CULTURE - GO DO IT -" PETE TELLS THE MOSES ASH STORY ABOUT FOLKWAYS RECORDS - TALKS MORE ABOUT FOLKWAYS AND HOW MOSES ASH WORKED
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| 01:40:23 2423.44 |
PETE SEEGER TALKS ABOUT HOW THE ESTABLISHMENT MAY TAKE SOME BIG DEFEATS AND BUSH WILL GO DOWN AS THE OIL COMPANY PRESIDENT -
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| 01:42:03 2523.52 |
PETE SAYS " NEWPORT WAS ONE OF THE BIG BREAKTHROUGHS AND ANOTHER WAS DR. KING AND ANOTHER BREAKTHROUGH WILL BE (FATHER ROY ?) - AS LONG AS WE HAVE WEAPONS THERE WILL BE INSANE PEOPLE WHO WILL WANT TOO USE THEM " DON'T HAVE TOO MUCH TALKING IN YOUR MOVIE - JUST MUSIC!!!" THE WONDERFUL THING ABOUT THIS COUNTRY IS IT IS FILLED WITH SO MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF FOLKS "
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