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Rainbow Quest(1965)

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First Air Date: 1965-03-03
Average Runtime: 52m
Rating: 0.0
Votes: 0
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 39

Legendary folk musician Pete Seeger shares stories and songs with some of the folk and country music greats of the 1960s such as Johnny Cash, June Carter, Mississippi John Hurt, The Stanley Brothers and Doc Watson.

Keywords

folk musiclive performance

Top Cast

Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
Self - Host

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 39
E01
Tom Paxton, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem

Air Date: 1965-03-03

52m

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

E02
'Leadbelly'

Air Date: N/A

52m

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

E03
Elizabeth Cotton, Rosa Valentin and Rafael Martinez

Air Date: N/A

52m

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

E04
Ruth Rubin

Air Date: N/A

52m

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

E05
Jean Ritchie and Bernice Reagon

Air Date: N/A

52m

Jean Ritchie, long-time collector of Cumberland Mountain songs, sings from her extensive repertoire and plays the dul...

E06
Malvina Reynolds and Jack Elliott

Air Date: N/A

52m

Malvina Reynolds, who made up songs almost daily from stories she read in the newspapers, sings her famous "Little Bo...

E07
Bessie Jones and Children from the Downtown Community School

Air Date: N/A

52m

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

E08
New Lost City Ramblers

Air Date: N/A

52m

The group includes Pete Seeger's brother Mike, his brother-in-law John Cohen, and Tracy Schwartz. Among them they pla...

E09
The Beers Family

Air Date: N/A

52m

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

E10
Herbert Manana

Air Date: N/A

52m

South African singer, dancer, songwriter Herbert Manana sings and dances several African songs including "Zula", "Wim...

E11
Martha Schlamme

Air Date: N/A

52m

German-born Martha Schlamme, accompanied by Abraham Stockman on piano, sings several songs in German including the Br...

E12
Doc Watson, Clint Howard and Fred Price

Air Date: N/A

52m

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

E13
Norman Studer and Grant Rogers

Air Date: N/A

52m

Scholar Norman Studer talks about the folklore of upstate New York and introduces composer-fiddler-guitarist-quarry w...

E14
Pete Seeger: Solo

Air Date: N/A

52m

With his songs and a display of cartoons and unusual documents, Seeger traces the history of political satire from th...

E15
Lino Manocchia, Ralph Marino and Federico Picciano

Air Date: N/A

52m

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

E16
Mimi and Richard Farina

Air Date: 1966-02-26

52m

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

E17
Roscoe Holcomb and Jean Redpath

Air Date: N/A

52m

Seeger and Roscoe trade traditional American songs including "John Hardy" and "Birdie, Pretty Birdie." Jean Redpath s...

E18
The Stanley Brothers and Cousin Emmy

Air Date: N/A

52m

The Clinch Mountain Boys, which includes the well-known Stanley Brothers, sing a number of old-time favorites, includ...

E19
Sonia Malkine

Air Date: N/A

52m

Ms. Malkine specializes in songs from France, especially those from the Auvergne, a mountainous area in southern Fran...

E20
'Woody Guthrie'

Air Date: N/A

52m

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

E21
Pat Sky and the Pennywhistlers

Air Date: N/A

52m

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

E22
Len Chandler

Air Date: N/A

52m

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

E23
Donovan and Rev. Gary Davis

Air Date: N/A

52m

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

E24
Alexander Zelkin

Air Date: N/A

52m

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

E25
The Cajun Band

Air Date: N/A

52m

Descendants of the Acadians who moved to Louisiana when the British made the French leave Nova Scotia, the Cajun Band...

E26
Frank Warner

Air Date: N/A

52m

Seeger and his guest Frank Warner sing songs of the Adirondack Mountains and reminisce about Yankee John and Frank Pr...

E27
Paul Draper

Air Date: N/A

52m

Paul Draper, the famous dancer, improvises to music played by his accompanist Coleridge Perkinson and to several song...

E28
Penny and Sonya Cohen

Air Date: N/A

52m

The subject of this show is work songs and lullabies, the latter occasionally being the former, as when sung by a bab...

E29
Theodore Bikel and Rashid Hussain

Air Date: N/A

52m

Israeli and Arabic music and poetry are presented in their original language and in translation. Seeger demonstrates ...

E30
Steve Addiss and Bill Crofut with Phan Duy

Air Date: N/A

52m

Addiss and Crofut, American folksingers who have traveled extensively in the Far East singing under U.S. Department o...

E31
The Greenbriar Boys

Air Date: N/A

52m

The fiddle and banjo are featured instruments in the Greenbriar Boys' repertoire of Blue Grass Music. Seeger joins in...

E32
Judy Collins

Air Date: N/A

52m

Seeger relates three parables and then trades songs with the popular singer Judy Collins. Together they sing "Daddy Y...

E33
Jim and Hazel Garland

Air Date: N/A

52m

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

E34
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee

Air Date: N/A

52m

Sonny Terry, the blind harmonica player, and Brownie McGhee, on guitar, trade songs with Seeger, including "Rock Isla...

E35
Bessie Jones and Children from the Downtown Community School

Air Date: N/A

52m

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

E36
Hedy West, Paul Cadwell, and Mississippi John Hurt

Air Date: N/A

52m

Paul Cadwell plays several banjo solos including a cakewalk, "Georgia Camp Meeting." Mississippi John Hurt, a singer ...

E37
Herbert Levy, K.L. Wong and Hi-Landers Steel Band

Air Date: N/A

52m

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

E38
Buffy Sainte-Marie

Air Date: N/A

52m

Composer, singer, guitarist Buffy Sainte-Marie, through song and conversation expresses the American Indians' mixed f...

E39
Johnny Cash and June Carter

Air Date: N/A

52m

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

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