One of the most influential American musicians of the 20th century was a man who often needed nothing more than a banjo and a strong voice to entertain an audience.
Pete Seeger was born in New York City in 1919. He was performing by the 1930s, and by the 1940s he was a major radio personality.
His political views in the 1950s ultimately got him blacklisted, but in the 1960s he revived his reputation and grew in popularity once more.
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Well into the 1990s Pete Seeger was still drawing huge crowds of all ages.
His songs, including “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?” “If I Had a Hammer,” and “Turn, Turn, Turn” are still very popular today.
In the summer of 1993 I had the rare chance to spend some time one-on-one with this legendary figure.
So here now from 1993 Pete Seeger.
When Pete Seeger died in 2014 at the age of 94, President Barack Obama called him “America’s tuning fork.”