Product details
Title: Greatest Hits [Remastered]
Performer: Pete Seeger
Genre: Folk
Release Date: 03/06/2002
Recomended Retail Price: 8.99 GBP
Original Release Year: 1987
Label / Distributor: Legacy / Sony Music/Arvato Services
Pieces in Set: 1
Studio / Live: Mixed
Stereo: Stereo
Format: Performer
EAN: 5099750603628
Catalogue Number: 5060362
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Additional notes
Album Notes: Personnel includes: Pete Seeger (vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo). Producer: John Hammond. Compialtion producer: Lawrence Cohn. Recorded between April 28, 1962 and March 22, 1967. Includes liner notes by Pete Seeger and Arthur Levy. All tracks have been digitally remastered. As a solo performer and with his band the Weavers, Pete Seeger had many big hits from the late '40s through the early '60s, by which time he was attracting more attention for his social activism than he was for his music. The 12-track GREATEST HITS collects Seeger's most popular tunes, and in so doing emphasizes his musical strengths over his political beliefs, though there's undeniable social commentary to be found in the suburbia satire "Little Boxes," the anti-war ballad "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," and the union anthem "Which Side Are You On." Other highlights include the original versions of "Turn! Turn! Turn!" and "The Bells of Rhymney," both later popularized by the Byrds, and "Wimoweh," which the Tokens later adapted into the pop hit "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."
Album Reviews: Q (9/02, p.128) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Seeger's reedy voice and banjo pluckings may have been rudimentary, but his belief in the power of song...is always moving..."
Titles on disc 1
1.: Little Boxes
2.: Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
3.: Where Have All The Flowers Gone
4.: Abi Yoyo
5.: Bells Of Rhymney
6.: Turn Turn Turn
7.: Talking Union
8.: Which Side Are You On
9.: We Shall Overcome
10.: Living In The Country
11.: Darling Corey
12.: Guantanamera
13.: Waist Deep In The Big Muddy
14.: Barbara Allen
15.: This Land Is Your Land
16.: Michael Row The Boat Ashore
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