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When Pete Seeger came to Boston in August of 1968 to sing at a giant Gene McCarthy rally at Fenway Park, he introduced a song by noting that at one time radio stations purposely ignored it. Now, he said with considerable feeling, it had become one of the most popular songs around...
...song was "If I Had a Hammer," later popularized by Peter, Paul and Mary. The radio stations wouldn't play it when it appeared two decades earlier because Seeger, its composer was a "known Communist" or "Communist sympathizer." He had appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee and declined to testify. "You may be cited for contempt of Congress," the Committee chairman told him. "Sir," replied Seeger. "I have nothing but contempt for this Congress...
...Seeger sauntered in again last Saturday to play at a benefit for the War Tax Resistance at the Aquarius Theater. The auditorium was packed, and most people seemed to know the words to nearly all the songs Seeger sang. "I'd say 80 per cent of the people here had heard me before" he said after the concert...
...Seeger concerts are like that Although he has been trying to play before different kinds of crowds lately, his performances before people who know him have a religious quality. They are times when a remnant of believers can get together and have their faith renewed. Seeger seems to know this Last Saturday, for example, he sang old Woody Guthrie songs like "Deportee" and "You've Got to Walk that Lonesome Highway," (a religious tune which Woody partly re-wrote). He also rendered some of the best songs from old albums: "Winoweh," which was his last for the night...
...though Harvard has not produced an incredible number of musicians or composers, such popular favorites as Pete Seeger '36 and Tom Rush '60 lived in the Harvard Union and Thayer 7, respectively...