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Title If I had a hammer : songs of hope & struggle / Pete Seeger.

Publication Info. Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways, [1998]
℗1998

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 Talbott Media  CD 25777    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
plastic metal
Description digital
optical
1.4 m/s
audio file
CD audio
Note Smithsonian Folkways: SF 40096 (on container: SF CD 40096).
Folk songs and original songs written by Seeger and others.
Performer Pete Seeger, vocals, banjo, and guitar.
Note Most selections originally released by Folkways, 1955-1992; includes 3 previously unreleased tracks.
Title from disc label.
Program notes by Mark Greenberg, bibliography, and discography (20 pages : illustrations) inserted in container.
Contents I'd hammer in the morning (introduction). If I had a hammer / Lee Hays, Pete Seeger (1:52) -- Solidarity forever (unions and labor). Banks of marble / Les Rice (3:12) ; Which side are you on? / Florence Reece (2:06) ; Casey Jones (The union scab) / Joe Hill, E.W. Newton (1:54) ; Talking union / Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger (3:01) ; Joe Hill / Alfred Hayes, Earl Robinson (2:29) ; Union maid / Woody Guthrie (2:12) ; Step by step / Traditional, arr. by Waledmar Hille, Pete Seeger (1:33) ; Solidarity forever / Ralph Chaplin, David Welsh (2:51) -- Study war no more (peace). Where have all the flowers gone / Pete Seeger (2:01) ; Talking atom / Vern Partlow (2:25) ; Crow on the cradle / Sidney Carter (2:21) ; Last night I had the strangest dream / Ed McCurdy (2:21) ; Study war no more (Down by the riverside) / Trad. (3:09) -- We shall overcome (civil rights). Bourgeois blues / Huddie Ledbetter (2:03) ; River of my people / Trad., words by Pete Seeger (3:03) ; Hold on (Hand on the plow) / Trad. (3:16) ; We shall overcome / Trad., adapted by Zilphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy Carawan, Pete Seeger (4:38) -- I'd hammer in the evening (hope). He lies in the American land / Andrew Kovaly, Pete Seeger (1:57) ; Well may the world go / Pete Seeger (2:38) ; Turn, turn, turn / words from the Bible, music and additional words by Pete Seeger (2:43) ; Tomorrow is a highway / Lee Hays, Pete Seeger (3:28) ; Oh, had I a golden thread / Pete Seeger (3:26) ; We'll all be a-doubling Pete Seeger (Tao Rodriquez, vocals; David Amram, dombek; recorded Mar. 1998, Beacon, NY) (1:53) ; Arrange and rearrange Pete Seeger (Rodriquez; Amram) (4:48) ; If I had a hammer / Lee Hays, Pete Seeger (2:10).
Language Sung in English.
Subject Folk songs, English -- United States.
Folk songs, English.
United States.
Folk music -- United States.
Folk music.
Working class -- United States -- Songs and music.
Working class.
Genre/Form Songs and music.
Subject Political ballads and songs -- United States.
Political ballads and songs.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Songs and music.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Genre/Form sound recordings.
Sound recordings.
Folk music.
Sound recordings.
Folk music.
Folk songs.
Folk songs.
Songs.
Songs.
Music.
Music.
Added Author Greenberg, Mark, 1945- compiler, writer of added commentary.
Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014, performer.
Hays, Lee, 1914-1981.
Rice, Les.
Reece, Florence, 1900-1986.
Hill, Joe, 1879-1915.
Newton, Eddie.
Lampell, Millard, 1919-1997.
Hayes, Alfred, 1911-1985.
Robinson, Earl, 1910-1991.
Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967.
Hille, Waldemar, 1908-1995.
Chaplin, Ralph, 1887-1961.
Welsh, Dave.
Partlow, Vern, 1910-1981.
Carter, Sidney.
McCurdy, Ed, 1919-2000.
Leadbelly, 1885-1949.
Horton, Zilphia, 1910-1956.
Hamilton, Frank, 1934-
Carawan, Guy.
Kovaly, Andrew.
Added Title Songs of hope & struggle
Songs of hope and struggle
Standard No. 093074009628
Music No. SF 40096 Smithsonian Folkways
SF CD 40096 Smithsonian Folkways