Season 1 (1965)

Tom Paxton, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
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March 3, 1965 • 52m

The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem from Ireland sing traditional and contemporary Irish songs, including "Butcher's Boy." Seeger ...Read more

'Leadbelly'
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

This is a solo performance by Seeger in which he sings some of the songs composed by the famous black folksinger Huddie Ledbetter....Read more

Elizabeth Cotton, Rosa Valentin and Rafael Martinez
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Seeger and Elizabeth Cotton sing her famous song, "Freight Train" and she demonstrates her left-handed guitar playing. Rosa and Ra...Read more

Ruth Rubin
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Ruth Rubin is America's foremost collector of Yiddish folk music and the translator of countless Yiddish songs. Here she performs ...Read more

Jean Ritchie and Bernice Reagon
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Jean Ritchie, long-time collector of Cumberland Mountain songs, sings from her extensive repertoire and plays the dulcimer. She al...Read more

Malvina Reynolds and Jack Elliott
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Malvina Reynolds, who made up songs almost daily from stories she read in the newspapers, sings her famous "Little Boxes" among ot...Read more

Bessie Jones and Children from the Downtown Community School
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Bessie Jones and the children sing and dance a number of children's play-party songs such as "Thread & Needle" and "Drawing a Buck...Read more

New Lost City Ramblers
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

The group includes Pete Seeger's brother Mike, his brother-in-law John Cohen, and Tracy Schwartz. Among them they play fiddle, gui...Read more

The Beers Family
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Robert Beers, his wife and daughter, sing in a hauntingly beautiful style including their own "Dumbarton's Drums." Mr. Beers plays...Read more

Herbert Manana
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

South African singer, dancer, songwriter Herbert Manana sings and dances several African songs including "Zula", "Wimoweh" and "Ti...Read more

Martha Schlamme
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

German-born Martha Schlamme, accompanied by Abraham Stockman on piano, sings several songs in German including the Brecht/Weill so...Read more

Doc Watson, Clint Howard and Fred Price
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Three legendary figures of country folk music join Seeger with their guitars and fiddle in a long list of traditional songs, inclu...Read more

Norman Studer and Grant Rogers
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Scholar Norman Studer talks about the folklore of upstate New York and introduces composer-fiddler-guitarist-quarry worker Grant R...Read more

Pete Seeger: Solo
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

With his songs and a display of cartoons and unusual documents, Seeger traces the history of political satire from the early days ...Read more

Lino Manocchia, Ralph Marino and Federico Picciano
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Italian folk music is the subject of the program, including a film of a group sing in an Italian village. His guests, with two of ...Read more

Mimi and Richard Farina
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February 26, 1966 • 52m

This program was taped a short time before Richard Farina's death in an auto accident on April 30, 1966, and contains many of the ...Read more

Roscoe Holcomb and Jean Redpath
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Seeger and Roscoe trade traditional American songs including "John Hardy" and "Birdie, Pretty Birdie." Jean Redpath sings several ...Read more

The Stanley Brothers and Cousin Emmy
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

The Clinch Mountain Boys, which includes the well-known Stanley Brothers, sing a number of old-time favorites, including "Worried ...Read more

Sonia Malkine
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Ms. Malkine specializes in songs from France, especially those from the Auvergne, a mountainous area in southern France whose song...Read more

'Woody Guthrie'
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

This is a solo performance by Seeger, in which he sings some of the hundreds of songs composed by Woody, including "Philadelphia L...Read more

Pat Sky and the Pennywhistlers
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

A combination of recent and traditional songs, including Pat Sky's well-known "Separation Blues" and Seeger's "Where Have All the ...Read more

Len Chandler
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Seeger and Chandler trade songs they have written, including Chandler's "Keep on Keeping On," "Beans in My Ears" and "Move on Over...Read more

Donovan and Rev. Gary Davis
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Donovan, the British recording star, sings a number of songs, accompanied on the sitar by Shawn Phillips, who also demonstrates th...Read more

Alexander Zelkin
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

A young Russian emigré living in Canada, Alexander Zelkin trades songs from all over the world with Seeger. Sometimes they sing tw...Read more

The Cajun Band
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Descendants of the Acadians who moved to Louisiana when the British made the French leave Nova Scotia, the Cajun Band shares its t...Read more

Frank Warner
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Seeger and his guest Frank Warner sing songs of the Adirondack Mountains and reminisce about Yankee John and Frank Proffit. Proffi...Read more

Paul Draper
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Paul Draper, the famous dancer, improvises to music played by his accompanist Coleridge Perkinson and to several songs and rhythms...Read more

Penny and Sonya Cohen
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

The subject of this show is work songs and lullabies, the latter occasionally being the former, as when sung by a babysitter. We h...Read more

Theodore Bikel and Rashid Hussain
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Israeli and Arabic music and poetry are presented in their original language and in translation. Seeger demonstrates how to make a...Read more

Steve Addiss and Bill Crofut with Phan Duy
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Addiss and Crofut, American folksingers who have traveled extensively in the Far East singing under U.S. Department of State auspi...Read more

The Greenbriar Boys
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

The fiddle and banjo are featured instruments in the Greenbriar Boys' repertoire of Blue Grass Music. Seeger joins in with his 12-...Read more

Judy Collins
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Seeger relates three parables and then trades songs with the popular singer Judy Collins. Together they sing "Daddy You've Been on...Read more

Jim and Hazel Garland
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

The Garlands tell about life in Kentucky in the days when the mineworkers' union was struggling to be a force in the mines. Jim Ga...Read more

Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Sonny Terry, the blind harmonica player, and Brownie McGhee, on guitar, trade songs with Seeger, including "Rock Island Line," "I'...Read more

Bessie Jones and Children from the Downtown Community School
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

In this return visit, Ms. Jones and the children sing and dance with Seeger playing "Skip to My Lou," "Beans in my Ear," "Cumberla...Read more

Hedy West, Paul Cadwell, and Mississippi John Hurt
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Paul Cadwell plays several banjo solos including a cakewalk, "Georgia Camp Meeting." Mississippi John Hurt, a singer who had faded...Read more

Herbert Levy, K.L. Wong and Hi-Landers Steel Band
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Playing their steel drums, the Hi-Landers sing songs of their native Trinidad, mostly in the Calypso tradition. Songs include "Mar...Read more

Buffy Sainte-Marie
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

Composer, singer, guitarist Buffy Sainte-Marie, through song and conversation expresses the American Indians' mixed feelings of lo...Read more

Johnny Cash and June Carter
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January 1, 1970 • 52m

This episode features Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash as they talk about country music and its ties to the folk traditi...Read more