Harry Belafonte tells it like it is -- for real -- I can't imagine a better way to honor the life, heart, and songs of Peter Seeger

@chrivison

2 жыл бұрын

He went off script 🥺

@michaelreidperry3256

2 жыл бұрын

I am in awe of him.

Pete reminds us that Rock and Roll sprang from roots deep in traditional folksong. How fitting for wonderful Belaphonte and Woody's son, Arlo be the ones to induct him. He was my true inspiration since toddlerhood and I never strayed from exploring traditional folk song all my eight decades. Any honor he receives is so well deserved.

What a beautiful and heartfelt sentiment from Harry, it's simply love and understanding

Harry Belafonte 2022 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee!

An absolutely elegant genius honoring an absolute genius--so nobly, so articulately, so profoundly, but worthy of the honor of forever. HOF.

@bboorideau5253

5 жыл бұрын

aaron howe You expressed it perfectly-we both get it,don't we?Best wishes n keep loving the good stuff...

Beautiful souls

WOW, it's so great to hear this..................

I have a very personal reminiscence of Pete Seeger. Many years ago in Fort Worth , in Texas at the what had once been the Texas Hotel( the hotel where President J.F.Kennedy had stayed the night prior to that devastating event in history) in the elevator cove, I pushed the button calling the elevator to deliver me to my my floor… and waited . A moment or two following Mr. Seeger and his wife arrived .The hair at the back of my neck stood at attention . MR PETE SEEGER . Wow. I apologised for entering his universe and simply thanked him fir what he personally through his songs and just being, brought to me . He smiled and I reminded him of the concert,in Montreal, that he had given 3o years previously ,with one Arlo Guthrie He smiled but this time he corrected me. The concert was. 20 years previously, Without skipping a beat, I replied , I may have forgotten the date, but I didn’t forget the concert . Again , he smiled and looking me straight in the eye said , bless your heart . It was MAGIC! The encounter, the timing, the conversation . Pete Seeger, I couldn’t believe it ( ps Mrs Seeger was beyond pleasant. What a lovely human being).

We Shall Overcome. Ty Pete.

Harry Belafonte, the perfect man to give the perfect tribute to the great Pete Seger! Love you Harry and Pete! RIP, Pete.

When the mental and spiritual and physical pains of old age threaten to overcome me, I will remember that I lived in the time of Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie and Harry Beafonte; The time of Woody, Joan, Joni, Buffy, Peter Paul and Mary, and so many others. I wouldnt trade those times for the world.

@mikefannon6994

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir. So right!

@joseflemire4284

Ай бұрын

Si...may I add Bob Dylan, Jimi, Aretha, Patti Smith, Neil Young...etc etc etc

Pete Seeger was a great talent, humanitarian and a true cultural icon

I've met Pete Seeger and went to a few of his yearly strawberry festivals on the Hudson River in Beacon NY and he at 86 could jump on and off a pickup truck to put a 36 year old (me) to shame. I remember he did a concert at out school and I stood a few feet from his banjo whose words around its circular hide front said " This instrument surrounds hatred and forces it to surrender" .. I was never more moved before in the presence of something magical and powerful. I even sent him a few of my songs on a cassette and he hand wrote back to me a beautiful 50 word response signed keep on singing and playing Pete and he even drew a little picture of a banjo next to his signature.. He told me they were good songs but to sing them on the streets and in the jails because he was to old to learn new songs... Cherishing this memento of Pete's. Hey read the book he wrote called the "Compleat Folk Singer" with an intro about an English man with my same last name that a ways before Pete wrote his book this Child fellow (hope I'm related) wrote about English folk music and inspired Pete to write one for America. Pete's book is awesome and full of so many songs and there roots to our land and culture.

@randysandford4033

3 жыл бұрын

Can't believe that someone from Beacon would actually think this guy was some kind of American hero. Anti-hero maybe.

There is no one like Pete. His music, his dedication to justice and equality, and his special gift of getting everyone to sing along were truly incredible. To me he is a giant and always will be. I only wish that he had won the Nobel Peace Prize. He deserved it! By the way, I cry every time I hear Pete and the Weavers sing, "Good Night Irene."

Seeger's songbook gave dozens of artists their Rock n' Roll cover hits, from his adaptations like Wemoweh > "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," to "Turn, Turn, Turn," "We Shall Overcome," and so many have retained a classic resonance in oldies popularity, perhaps because the Seeger sincerity and power inbued even pop cover stylings with something deeper.

RIP Harry Belafonte (1927-2023) Nearly everything he said about Pete Seeger could be said about Belafonte too.

@doneestoner9945

4 ай бұрын

Yes. I love them both.

For us europeans Pete Seeger was THE american. THE storyteller from across the sea.

@horsedfedbuffalo25

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@user-ky6vw5up9m

3 жыл бұрын

Peter Callan weirdo

@user-ky6vw5up9m

3 жыл бұрын

Drake Mustafa weirdo

@randysandford4033

3 жыл бұрын

If you really knew Seeger you wouldn't think the falsities that you do.

@SandfordSmythe

2 жыл бұрын

@@randysandford4033 You want to go on record?

Harry Belafonte is simply amazing.

Where Pete needs to be!!! He was brilliant!! Arlo, as always, is hysterical.

Harry is great

@doneestoner9945

4 ай бұрын

I love 💜 him.

Love them both!

That man is sooo fine

Wonderful

Anerica is very lucky to have Pete Seege. And the world, indeed!

Awesome

So fortunate to have worked with Pete... 50 years.. WOW!

Harry and Pete, two great men. ;-)

@mccellen

6 жыл бұрын

And Woody Guthrie..died in 1967..

God bless you Pete.

What a glorious night that would have been for that special purpose!

I love Harry Belafonte and I learn to love Peter Seeger. I don't know very well Arlo Guthrie, but I will know...

WHEN WE SING TOGETHER.

Man! Harry Belafonte laid it down!

Fantastic!

Pete was America’s greatest patriot. No doubt.

A story behind this. Harry Belafonte was also "black-listed" in his early days.

Wow! Love this!

I am personally offended that Pete Seeger would be mentioned with mere 'rock musicians', but he doesn't seem to mind so I'll go along with it. Carry on.

It is going to be tough to top this for a eulogy.

@tussagaia2761

10 жыл бұрын

so

@sankhawkulathantille

4 жыл бұрын

@@tussagaia2761 Are you like a tree of thorns?

Salute...

@gordonbechtel1344

4 жыл бұрын

Somd

3 chords and the truth!

A lot of young performers could learn something from Harry Belafonte about the real purpose of art.

Wow, I think commenters here may have missed it, so let me repeat what Harry Bellafonte said in closing at about 7:15: he witnessed a conversation between two 'guiding lights' of his life, Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger, where they concluded: "Get them to sing your song. And they will want to know who you are. And then we have the first step to ending hate." It is hard to overstate the importance of these three men to American culture and life, of their century.

Amen

I would love to have listened to a conversation between Pete Seeger, “small c” Hudson Valley communist, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Many people loved him and his music. That’s undeniable.

@MrJoeybabe25

3 жыл бұрын

My grandfather was a communist in the twenties and thirties when it was not the political cross to bear that it became. He died in 1934 at the age of 38. He became a communist, as I was told, because he could not find any other outlet for his pursuit of justice and peace. My Mother, who was just 16 when he died, thought him a most amazing man. The American Communists who joined the party in that time, before the great crimes of Stalin, Mao, and so many others were known are in my view guilty only of exceedingly poor judgement. True, perhaps they suspected that such a system that eviscerated the concept of the individual and made him a servant of the state rather than the other way around, as in our own violent revolution, could only survive by brutality and total control over persons. I'm confident that my grandfather never really tussled with such ideas. His was a search for justice in a brutal world. His motives were pure. And he would rather die by his own hand than be a part of such a system. But those who remained communists, through the 40's and beyond had accounts to settle before God and Man. Pete Seeger was an American institution. His songs are as American as those of Irving Berlin. His efforts to smash racism and legal injustice give him (as we Jews here in Israel are often heard to say) Mitzvah Points if and/or when he stands before any judgment. Pete Seeger I would like to think, long ago came to understanding of the non-corresponding concepts of what it means to be free and what it means to be a communist.

@anirbanbiswas8300

Жыл бұрын

Oh, Trump supporters are soooo lame! Grow up man!

I love this. I love all three of them. But what's up with the lava lamps?

A calypso singer, a folk singer induct a pop folk protest singer into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.

This is a time capsule

Lava-Lamps in the 90’s

profound

Wow --- Maybe it took Harry Belafonte to help explain Pete Seeger's vaulted meaning For the century that was in the decisive past And for the future at once in action and in song...

Harry Belifonte is not rock and roll. He is not rockn'roll. He is jazz and good at it.

The 5th face on Mt. Rushmore? More?

Moving comments.

Does anyone in the comments know why Arlo was with Harry? Pete and Woody together told the story of the struggles of everyday Americans during the toughest of times.

@khzvaleriesmith6428

3 жыл бұрын

because he is woody guthries musician son that knew and loved pete his entire life.

20th Century's Walt Whitman

WHERE IS THE REST OF THIS ???

Richard: did I to Harry & Pete

@maureenhiggins7341

5 жыл бұрын

Dido to Harry & Pete

Pete did not sing “Rock, Roll”. , neither did Harry. Arlo did..

@musik102

3 жыл бұрын

Really? He sang blues, he sang boogie-woogie Leadbelly songs. He sang the songs that melded into rock'n'roll.

How many millennials and zoomers know who Pete Seeger was? Or Arlo Guthrie? Or Peter Paul & Mary? Or Harry Belafonte?

Pete Seeger was not known for rock and roll. He did not like the electric guitar or electric banjo. He was a folk artist. He was extremely disappointed when Bob Dylan moved from Focus hot to electric guitar and added rock and roll elements into his music. I would suspect that Pete Seeger was more inducted for his politics than his music. That is not to say that Pete Seeger did not make a fantastic contribution to the field of Folk Music

@SandfordSmythe

3 жыл бұрын

Some irony on Pete. He was criticized by Party leaders [ yes, he was a member of the CP] for singing folky songs to the proletariats that they would never listen to. The Party recommended pop music with the appropriate lefty lyrics. Guess who won a Noble prize and had his protest songs song by a whole generation.

@randysandford4033

3 жыл бұрын

Finally someone who knows and speaks the truth. Grew up in Seeger's home town. He was no hero there. Believe me.

Rr

This rock and roll thing is a bourgeois/elitist place and I'm not sure Pete Seeger would approve this.

It's kinda ironic that Pete would be inducted into the R'nR HOF. This is the same guy who almost axed the cable at Newport in '65 when Bob Dylan was slinging his Strat, singing "Maggie Farm".

@dbiltonen

10 жыл бұрын

He did not! He was upset because the sound was off and did not do justice to Bob Dylan playing - check out his discussion about this on NPR

@gyermekkenek

9 жыл бұрын

Harry Dowling This is what I would call a very rock'n roll act!

@chancenovak1751

6 жыл бұрын

You nailed it. If Pete Seeger had his way, Rock and Roll would have died in 1967. Folk music in ANTI-rock. People that don't like rock play/listen to folk

@JerryStanaway

6 жыл бұрын

I like both.

@stevenking6129

5 жыл бұрын

Actually you are quite wrong my friend.

3 comies

@anirbanbiswas8300

Жыл бұрын

Trump supporters like you are real traitors to USA. Why are u ppl so lame? Have u asked urselves?

just another pagon get down.

As far as I'm concerned rock and roll is used in politics like country music is used ,both of them selling fascism to the working class.

Pete Seeger was a great composer and singer of folk songs. he had nothing to do with rock n roll. this tribute is absurd.

@trm10111

10 жыл бұрын

yeah, that's why he was inducted as an Early Influence..... that means people who influenced rock and roll even if they aren't performers of the craft themselves...... idiot....

@jimmypage2138

10 жыл бұрын

Well then we should put Mozart and Wagner in the rock and roll hall of fame as well, idiot

@trm10111

10 жыл бұрын

jimmy page direct influence... as in, working in the era directly before rock and roll, typically defined as 1955 and had a direct influence. This would include folk, blues, gospel, etc. There's a step or two in between Mozart and Buddy Holly. Pete Seeger and Buddy Holly? Not so much. You know, you really should read a thing or two about the hall before you comment. Or, you know, think for 5 seconds.

@Esus4

6 жыл бұрын

He wrote the number one rock hit Turn Turn Turn, also introduced the Lion Sleeps Tonight.

@sankhawkulathantille

4 жыл бұрын

ABCDEFGH, idiot!