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Track Listings
| 1. Little Boxes |
| 2. Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) |
| 3. Where Have All The Flowers Gone? |
| 4. Abiyoyo |
| 5. The Bells Of Rhymney |
| 6. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) |
| 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 (Bonus Track) |
| 14. Barbara Allen (Bonus Track) |
| 15. This Land Is Your Land (Bonus Track) |
| 16. Michael Row The Boat Ashore (Bonus Track) |
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Pete Seeger's recording career covers more than 60 years, so a single-CD collection is bound to leave out more than a few worthy songs. But the 16 selections on Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits include indispensable Seeger-composed classics like "Turn! Turn! Turn!," "Bells of Rhymney," and an abbreviated a cappella version of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" Also included are songs Seeger popularized, such as "Wimoweh," which he learned from Solomon Linda's original South African recording in the 1940s, and "Guantanamera," which he picked up from some children at a Catskills summer camp where he was singing. All of the performances are drawn from his 1960s tenure at Columbia Records--only the first 12 tracks were included on the original 1967 package--and include both studio and live recordings. This CD features only a small fraction of the songs that could legitimately be called Seeger's greatest hits, but because most of these selections are so important to his career, this set can be thought of as the greatest of his greatest hits. --Michael Simmons
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Introduction / Consider 2-CD alternative,
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This review is from: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
This was the very first Pete Seeger album I ever listened to, back in the Selma Public Library on the scratchy old turntable. He had me at "Little Boxes," been that way ever since.Though advertised as "Greatest Hits," this is heavily drawn from a 1963 concert at Carnegie Hall, now available as a double CD "We Shall Overcome". "Greatest Hits" is a more politically sanitized collation, and the latter includes a series of civil rights songs and other political material that certainly would not have been 'hits' with a lot of folks at the time. Greatest Hits is still a great buy; please review the track list for We Shall Overcome before making your purchase.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
a 'Very Nice' collection !,
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This review is from: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
If you are willing to hear just 1 CD of Pete Seeger to know his music, listen to this. It has almost all his hits.I especially loved - Guantanamera Little Boxes, Where have all the flowers gone, We shall overcome Listen carefully to the words.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pete Seeger is a National Treasure,
By R. Sobkoviak "DHTML mentor / former radio per... (Chicagoland, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
There hasn't been another that's walked among us that has been quite like Pete Seeger. Pete's 83rd birthday was in the last week, and I thought I would write this note of thanks to him for all that he has given us. My Mom used to sing me "Little Boxes" (originally Malvina Reynolds) when I was quite young--a memory I realized when this CD began to play for the first time in my player. I now sing this song to my children. It's great to hear these songs sung by the source..."Turn Turn Turn" and "Guantanamera" are wonderful. There isn't a bad song on the disc. This man has led a folksinger's life, and his voice is warm like a Pendleton blanket in the Fall. Don't stop with this CD...get some by The Weavers, too. Pete sounds awfully good with Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman. There's a VHS tape out there, too, about The Weavers and is quite good. Thank you, Pete Seeger.
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