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...Music Barn, a resort just one-half mile from Tanglewood, where the top rock, folk and jazz artists perform in a converted stable. This season's roster includes Pete Seeger, Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, Lionel Hampton...
This esoteric image doesn't simply mean that WHRB plays no "top 40" records. It means that there is no "Muzak"--sound track and other light music--and that there is nothing "slicked over, or glossed over, to sell." You won't hear Baez, Seeger>, or Peter, Paul and Mary very often, if at all, on WHRB, says Randy Webb '67, head of News, Sports, and Public Affairs at the station. The station doesn't want to give time to what he calls "little white boys playing Negro music." Following the image also means that commercials "with the Kingston Trio...
TURN, TURN, TURN (Columbia). The Bible, set to rock 'n' roll, produced December's biggest hit. The words ("To everything there is a season") are from Ecclesiastes, the music is by Pete Seeger, and the performance is by the Byrds, pioneers of folk-rock...
...Obviously," Mansfield commented, "the law is way out of its depth." He went on to point out that in the case of an agnostic pacifist, Daniel Seeger, the Court threw out the Supreme Being requirement and put on a broad interpretation on "religious belief." But the decision in Seeger's favor specifically refused to commit the court to exempting an atheist pacifist...
...PETE SEEGER: I CAN SEE A NEW DAY (Columbia). Everyone seems to take his new songs to Pete. Fred Hellerman, for example, handed him his new, gospel-like prayer for Mississippi (Healing River) just before Seeger flew down there last summer. Pete also sings some traditional ballads (Follow the Drinkin' Gourd) and his own haunting Bells of Rliymney...