
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.
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Air Date: 1965-03-03
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem from Ireland sing traditional and contemporary Irish songs, including "Butcher's ...
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This is a solo performance by Seeger in which he sings some of the songs composed by the famous black folksinger Hudd...
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Seeger and Elizabeth Cotton sing her famous song, "Freight Train" and she demonstrates her left-handed guitar playing...
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Ruth Rubin is America's foremost collector of Yiddish folk music and the translator of countless Yiddish songs. Here ...
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Jean Ritchie, long-time collector of Cumberland Mountain songs, sings from her extensive repertoire and plays the dul...
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Malvina Reynolds, who made up songs almost daily from stories she read in the newspapers, sings her famous "Little Bo...
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Bessie Jones and the children sing and dance a number of children's play-party songs such as "Thread & Needle" and "D...
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The group includes Pete Seeger's brother Mike, his brother-in-law John Cohen, and Tracy Schwartz. Among them they pla...
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Robert Beers, his wife and daughter, sing in a hauntingly beautiful style including their own "Dumbarton's Drums." Mr...
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South African singer, dancer, songwriter Herbert Manana sings and dances several African songs including "Zula", "Wim...
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German-born Martha Schlamme, accompanied by Abraham Stockman on piano, sings several songs in German including the Br...
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Three legendary figures of country folk music join Seeger with their guitars and fiddle in a long list of traditional...
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Scholar Norman Studer talks about the folklore of upstate New York and introduces composer-fiddler-guitarist-quarry w...
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With his songs and a display of cartoons and unusual documents, Seeger traces the history of political satire from th...
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Italian folk music is the subject of the program, including a film of a group sing in an Italian village. His guests,...
Air Date: 1966-02-26
This program was taped a short time before Richard Farina's death in an auto accident on April 30, 1966, and contains...
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Seeger and Roscoe trade traditional American songs including "John Hardy" and "Birdie, Pretty Birdie." Jean Redpath s...
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The Clinch Mountain Boys, which includes the well-known Stanley Brothers, sing a number of old-time favorites, includ...
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Ms. Malkine specializes in songs from France, especially those from the Auvergne, a mountainous area in southern Fran...
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This is a solo performance by Seeger, in which he sings some of the hundreds of songs composed by Woody, including "P...
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A combination of recent and traditional songs, including Pat Sky's well-known "Separation Blues" and Seeger's "Where ...
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Seeger and Chandler trade songs they have written, including Chandler's "Keep on Keeping On," "Beans in My Ears" and ...
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Donovan, the British recording star, sings a number of songs, accompanied on the sitar by Shawn Phillips, who also de...
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A young Russian emigré living in Canada, Alexander Zelkin trades songs from all over the world with Seeger. Sometimes...
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Descendants of the Acadians who moved to Louisiana when the British made the French leave Nova Scotia, the Cajun Band...
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Seeger and his guest Frank Warner sing songs of the Adirondack Mountains and reminisce about Yankee John and Frank Pr...
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Paul Draper, the famous dancer, improvises to music played by his accompanist Coleridge Perkinson and to several song...
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The subject of this show is work songs and lullabies, the latter occasionally being the former, as when sung by a bab...
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Israeli and Arabic music and poetry are presented in their original language and in translation. Seeger demonstrates ...
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Addiss and Crofut, American folksingers who have traveled extensively in the Far East singing under U.S. Department o...
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The fiddle and banjo are featured instruments in the Greenbriar Boys' repertoire of Blue Grass Music. Seeger joins in...
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Seeger relates three parables and then trades songs with the popular singer Judy Collins. Together they sing "Daddy Y...
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The Garlands tell about life in Kentucky in the days when the mineworkers' union was struggling to be a force in the ...
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Sonny Terry, the blind harmonica player, and Brownie McGhee, on guitar, trade songs with Seeger, including "Rock Isla...
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In this return visit, Ms. Jones and the children sing and dance with Seeger playing "Skip to My Lou," "Beans in my Ea...
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Paul Cadwell plays several banjo solos including a cakewalk, "Georgia Camp Meeting." Mississippi John Hurt, a singer ...
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Playing their steel drums, the Hi-Landers sing songs of their native Trinidad, mostly in the Calypso tradition. Songs...
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Composer, singer, guitarist Buffy Sainte-Marie, through song and conversation expresses the American Indians' mixed f...
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This episode features Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash as they talk about country music and its ties to the...