Possibly one of the greatest songs ever written

Pete & Bob

One of the preachers of real folk music. Great man who influenced guys like Dylan, Cash and Springsteen.

Alot world leaders need to listen to words of this song ...... ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Never heard of Pete Seeger until 11 minutes ago, I now have a new obsession.

@marguskiis7711

2 жыл бұрын

He was alive btw some years ago.

@mitchgawlik1175

2 жыл бұрын

Jerrald Eldridge: WHAT? Jerrald, the music you've missed. You can pick at any stage of Pete's life and career and you'll be rewarded with this American treasure.

@unwavery

2 жыл бұрын

there are a lot of episodes of his educational roots music program Rainbow Quest on here. the one with Johnny and June Carter Cash takes some fortitude, Johnny is all messed up on pills. It's still worth watching, just be prepared to see a great man at a low low.

@benjaminhatcher9846

Жыл бұрын

Welcome 🤗

@airatganeev3627

Жыл бұрын

I’m so happy for you.

Wow, Seeger adds one line to the song that really hits home (at 3:12): "...heard the sound of one person who cried he was human..." Considering the context of the 60's civil rights movement just emerging, that's a beautiful lyrical addition to this great song.

@user-rc1yg5ju3r

4 ай бұрын

So lmpressive!!!

Wow!!!! Never heard Pete Seeger cover this song. Always so used to only Pete singing with his banjo. Love his singing and playing the guitar here. I don't always get into the banjo sometimes.

Pete brings another dimension to this song, a sense of urgency. He makes it an anthem, a call to battle.

@edited7382

2 жыл бұрын

Too bad he didn't know his song well before he started singing.

@oreally8605

2 жыл бұрын

What battle? Good vs. Evil? And just who is good? And who is the evil?

@charlesdavenport6094

2 жыл бұрын

@@oreally8605 The battle of metaphors vs. similes

@stevenmeyer9674

Жыл бұрын

@@edited7382 Maybe it's you who doesn't know the song.

@xine9997

10 ай бұрын

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A great song from Bob Dylan. This guy just makes the song even greater.

The man never changed from day one, he was who he was, and never changed, but he did indeed change so many others.....

Still one of the best performances of this song. And no disrespect to Bob Dylan, but with Pete singing you can actually clearly understand every word.

Billy Connolly brought me here This song brought him to tears ❤️

I forgot how beautiful his voice was. What a story. What story tellers - Dylan & Seeger. I am the blue-eyed son and I've walked the paths the song describes. But then, haven't we all...

What can one say, a master at work. Integrity, honesty and talent. We were blessed to have these recordings.

One of the most powerful songs written in the history;tribute by one legend to another!

@davidmoore9150

Жыл бұрын

Hello,how are you doing,how is the weather?

You could clearly see by the faces of the audience they were very uncomfortable, confused and not ready for the depth of darkness in this song. Yet when he was done they all clapped enthusiastically, I think because they knew they had just witnessed a profound moment even if they didn't really understand it!

@fionnmcnessa

Жыл бұрын

I think they were getting the message and it frightened them . sadly it would havegone right over today's teenagers heads . What a preformance amazing

@gabbyhyman1246

Жыл бұрын

Also, audiences didn't have mosh pits then. This looks like a college audience from in the day where you sat quietly at a performance until the song ended. Lots of stuffy professor types. 😆 This is the same audience that went insane and murderous when Dylan broke out the fender at the folk festival. 🤣

@HoyaSaxaSD

Жыл бұрын

I’ll respectfully disagree. On all the videos I watched of Dylan and others at Newport and other folk festivals during this period, the audience is almost completely still and silent throughout the song. While that’s a bit foreign to us, it seemed perfectly normal in that setting. I think they really were studying and pondering each word. (The Beatles’ fan base would drop a nuclear bomb on any such reserved model of concertgoer, just a year or two later, lol. Couldn’t hear a single word of their singing over the interminable shrieking, which is what led the Beatles to quit playing live and focus on creating masterpieces in the studio.)

@alexisbourdages1666

Жыл бұрын

Bob wrote this during the Cuban misile crisis ....the hard rain was the close possibility of nuclear war over the ego of america

@alexisbourdages1666

Жыл бұрын

They knew the song was right

I miss ya Pete, You were an honorable loving man...a treasure.

Arguably Dylan's greatest song. He said every line was the start of a new song. He put them all together as one because it was the height of the Cold War and he didn't think he'd have enough time to write them all.

@paulsmith5752

Жыл бұрын

... "where black is the colour and none is the number." That line always gets me.

I loved the great Pete Seeger...

Listening with tears...

@carolynking1625

3 жыл бұрын

I had tears of homesickness for those times when the rains seemed gone for so long. Now the tears are for all those young people being old and gone from life now.

Who would have thought the young fellow would end up being the greatest songwriter the world as ever seen,God bless Bob Dylan.

I am fortunate to have wonderful memories of hearing Pete Seeger performing in the Melbourne Town Hall in September 1963, 58 years on, listening to this again is heart warming.

@patriciamusarra8159

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome.

@davidmoore9150

Жыл бұрын

Hello,how are you doing,how is the weather?

@TheAien123

Жыл бұрын

Sooo lucky indeed

Pete Seeger is one of the most important Americans ever - up there with MLK, Dylan, JFK. Thank God we had Pete Seeger, because he nudged Dylan, who nudged a British band called the Beatles, The Byrds, Burrito Bros, Judy Collins, Neil Young, CSNY, etc

@hannejeppesen1809

Ай бұрын

Dylan wrote this song.

Pete singing this made a younger Billy Connolly cry and decide to become a musician. 'I became a different man' - but still me, he said. He was still moved to tears describing it decades later.

RIP Pete. We always knew which side you were on.

@marieannecelticwoman3466

5 жыл бұрын

@marieannecelticwoman3466

5 жыл бұрын

Love this man, he spoke his heart.

@robertburr5336

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for these words: So true to who the man was and still is to those who remember him, personally.

the best troubadour there ever was... RIP Pete. we can still here you singing ...way out there.

@vicent436

6 жыл бұрын

c-record after Bob Dylan . Well, Pete asisted Spanish war, not Dylan , but Dylan wasn't still born

@vicent436

6 жыл бұрын

hear him

The MAN Much respected HERE Greetings from Dublin Ireland brothers and sisters ...

@robertburr5336

5 жыл бұрын

It's a rare human being who cannot respect this man. He's surely had his share of enemies. His sensitivity and kindness continues, unmistaken.

Tuning a 12 string on stage in front of an audience? That dude's got some balls!

@RickyBlackwell_X

2 жыл бұрын

In that era, it was normal. The incompetent did not go on stage, so you can often see how guitarists tune during a concert. Not like today's guitarists who sit with electronic tuners...

@simoncarswell3515

Жыл бұрын

I was so happy he did that. I thought "wow, that guitar is really out of tune" then he retuned by ear in about 5 seconds!

@user-kt4ui8px5i

Жыл бұрын

Look at those eyes. Eyes of minding people

@professorbatty6850

Жыл бұрын

Leo Kottke said that with a 12 string guitar you spend half your time tuning it and the other half of the time play it out of tune!😊

@michaelflanagan5450

Жыл бұрын

No not at all follow the story.

Muito linda a canção do grande Bob Dylan, tão perfeitamente interpretada por Pete Seeger!

A magnetic performance. Pete Seeger is a master.

the "Young fellow" has just won the nobel prize :)

@vicent436

7 жыл бұрын

and this old fellow was a great one

@peacenow42

7 жыл бұрын

And promptly snubbed it.

@TheGruntski

6 жыл бұрын

Pete Seeger wrote 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' and many others. The man was absolutely EPIC.

@vicent436

6 жыл бұрын

LearnItalian WithRiccardo Really , and he was worth Pete sang his song

@vicent436

6 жыл бұрын

And when this young fellow made his speech for the prize , he mentioned Woody Guthrie and Pete

can't get over this song/performance. a priceless moment in music and history. thanks for sharing

Manchi all'umanità PETER SEEGER. (2023)

Pete Seegar und Bob Dylan 😍

When he plays a song it's like there's a world of experience behind it I'll never know.

@eguirald

6 жыл бұрын

...and a wholly spiritual experience was shared by the artist and the audience

@vicent436

6 жыл бұрын

Jason Feingold He was an action man, sindicalist

God bless the day Pete Seeger was born. A great man!

Love Pete Seeger. My father's music. Takes me home again.

So wonderful to listen to him singing this great Dylan's song.

@davidmoore9150

Жыл бұрын

Hello,how are you doing,how is the weather?

Pete sang this with much more fervor!

A rare and inspirational talent.

Nothing compares to driving through WV over into Ohio via 50 as the suns coming up listening to some pete seeger. wonderful music with wonderful mountains of trees... the best.. even better when he's covering dylan!!

@bubu345

5 ай бұрын

Were you there at Ma Lai 😢😮😮

The hard rain is still falling, many oceans ARE dead, there are at least 7 sad forests, more than 6 crooked highways & not enough people are getting the point! This is Bob Dylan's most prophetic song.

@shakespeare_hall4788

Жыл бұрын

1962 Bob gave us a warning and this is it!... Did anyone hear?.. Did it make a difference?...... Sad😔😪😒

@phyaide

Жыл бұрын

Y'all are right, and that's the song Bob had Patti sing at his Nobel prize acceptance celebration (he having other engagements). Its a hard one, but Patti and Pete they managed to slip only once or twice! kzread.info/dash/bejne/a2hlsqp-equpp7g.html&ab_channel=NobelPrize This one with Baez harmonizing is quite the moment too :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/mnqqlZWgZ5zXj8o.html&ab_channel=fairbayer

@juliekozlowski4902

Жыл бұрын

And its just getting worse and worse! God help us!!

@stevenmeyer9674

Жыл бұрын

@@phyaide Patti's brain freeze and the responding encouragement from the audience (mainly royalty) made her performance even more powerful. At least in my opinion.

@phyaide

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenmeyer9674 i totally agree ;)

It was the late 70s. Prior to Pete Seeger performing at Sonoma State, I suggested that he visit a protest site where Sonoma Springs Dam was to be built. He went there and I was told he was tired at the evening concert. I felt sad about this... and more so when the dam was built anyway.

the kids in the audience are having their minds blown

@c.danjou7343

6 жыл бұрын

In that time, they were listening and thinking. Not like today.

@martiensventer9191

4 жыл бұрын

@@c.danjou7343 I don't know about that... Pete's ideas are making a comeback

@nickkkyyy

4 жыл бұрын

they all look so squarezo haha

@romielnagar1062

3 жыл бұрын

@@nickkkyyy I agree! Even though it was 1963, they were still out of place listening to Seeger. I hope they learned something.

OMG what a performance! What an audience!

What a beautiful voice, articulate, confident, on key, a troubadour paying tribute...

I miss Pete he did a great with Dylan song.

At the age of 77 I still perform every week. I have covered many of Bob's songs but never this one. Sometimes I need to see an interpretation like this to inspire me. Some weeks ago I watched an aged Pete sing "Forever Young". i was at University with Bryan Ferry and liked his rocked up version of this song (athough he only covers three verses). From that I got the idea to perform a rocked up version of "Masters of War" with my rock band through the nineties. Now back solo gigs only, I follow the slow pattern.

❤

In 1963 Bob Dylan was a young man who sang this song with an edge reflecting his youth. This 1963 version has Pete Seeger as a middle age man singing with the same depth of feeling, the feeling with which he sings is just as deep, but is more mature. I appreciate the fact that Pete Seeger knew in 1963 how important Dylan was to the protest movement and to the development of folk music. Of course a few years later he pulled Dylan's plug at the Newport Folk Festival . . . . .

@Arkybark

8 жыл бұрын

+Kevin Scudder Pete claimed he never pulled the plug and was probably telling the truth because as far as I know he never hid anything. Probably one of those good stories someone made up but gain credibility by being retold so often!

@seattlecollaborativedivorc8306

8 жыл бұрын

+Arkybark Thanks for the note. Interesting for me to use google to search the story. Thank you for pointing out that version of history is not correct. Wikipedia has an interesting entry on that history, which shows that human recollection is never going to be consistent. All I know is that I was not there and will stop passing on that version of the story. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Dylan_controversy

@eriknichols4148

8 жыл бұрын

+Arkybark I saw an interview where swear admitted to pulling the plug

@Arkybark

8 жыл бұрын

And I saw one in which he swore he didn't. I wasn't there, so......

@Mars08111

7 жыл бұрын

Arkybark Yeah, in an NPR interview he said that he actually appreciated his musical transition. The problem Pete had was that he ruined beauty of a guitar with horrible distortion. And he apparently went to the sound guy asked him to fix it, the dude said no. So Pete said "If I had an axe right now, I'd cut these wires!!"

pete was so above

Beautiful

gracias por todo Peter. .

Amazing that Pete could remember all the lyrics. I'm even amazed that Bob could.

@unwavery

Жыл бұрын

he almost lost it at the end of the first verse lol

@stevenmeyer9674

Жыл бұрын

Patty Smith would agree.

@bubu345

5 ай бұрын

Words can be forgotten... Wars will be remembered

Listening to Pete with Dylan 's melody

Brilliant

Pete Seeger always sang the greatest version of this song. He sang with all of his being, in complete earnest, all of the time. He deserved and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for all he did for humanity.

@stevenmeyer9674

Жыл бұрын

Every song Pete sung was the best version. A true American treasure.

@hashachar70

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenmeyer9674 I couldn't agree more! Every time I hear Pete singing this song, I get chills all over my body...and that's true of many songs he sang.

Only discovered this recently and it’s blown me away , took a Dylan song and I think it’s better than Dylan’s and I’m a mega Dylan fan

Great BOB**

One of the most prophetic songs written by one who wrote what we felt and sung here by one who felt it more intensely than most of us, and through his interpretation made us feel it again in our current times. Where has this vision in music gone? I just hope it's not forever.

so touching when arlo visits his dad and pete seeger respecting woody in Aro's Restaurant.

Important to face then and right now in all we can see and go to the mountain and embrace all with love!😢❤Dr Darryl Luke Pokea, Musician/Psychologist

Plus jeune je ne comprenais trop le sens de ces paroles , je le regrette même si c'est trop tard. Dommage . Rip der Pete, bon voyage dans ce temps infini.

I've seen nothing to indicate that we, as a species, have learned anything from Dylan's apocalyptic vision. A hard rain's not a-gonna fall; it's falling now.

@artemiobalderas300

5 жыл бұрын

You are damned right. It's falling now.

@Geopholus

4 жыл бұрын

For all Dylan's amazingly prescient visions of the present apocalypse,... he himself seems blithely aloof and unaware,...... Pete on the other hand remained steadfastly strong against this plague of idiocy until his end... In so doing he lives on and still gives us a little hope in humanity and some kind of future....

@ellensackett

4 жыл бұрын

Two years later from when you wrote this ... no idea how hard now...

@theungenis9107

4 жыл бұрын

It is time that we are going to ask ourselves the question what the message of the Lord to us, citicens of the world, is. Since the rain is so hard that we cannot gather to celebrate easter.

@carolynking1625

3 жыл бұрын

Keep on raining!! It beats indifferent nothingness.

What a respectful audience

Pete was as Punk as Fuck before anyone even knew what Punk was! Legend!

The fact that even 5 people disliked this makes me lose just a bit more faith in humanity.

@micasaverde

7 жыл бұрын

Perhaps it was this particular version they didn't like. Myself, though I adore Pete Seeger, I prefer Dylan's version and also the one Patti Smith did at the Nobels.

@glen6945

7 жыл бұрын

true jane

@vicent436

6 жыл бұрын

micasaverde This cover is good enough

@357HFC

5 жыл бұрын

Not Humanity just 5 F***its. Oh by the way now 17. Go Figure.

@carolynking1625

3 жыл бұрын

May be this version they don't like. I prefer the one on my record from his 1963 Carnigie (sp)?Hall concert. I wouldn't thumb down this though!

People can sit quietly to listen, and dress fairly smartly, but have the most revolutionary of spirit, and take part in protests, and totally comprehend a lyric. Students were often at the forefront of the protests, along with lecturers.

2024 is more now than ever before

classic historic moment recorded here....this song sadly has resonance for us all in todays crisis.

The start of an incredibly intense decade that still seems to be unraveling.

la música, la poesía y la la literatura reflejará la triste humanidad desde los principios de los tiempos. La belleza universal les da dones a muchos que se adelantan a la realidad y a Dios gracias que personas como esas existieron y existirán.

Pete Seeger was the best singer/entertainer!

Our National oracle….

Dylan wrote some great stuff.

"An another yong fellow, by the name of Bob Dylan, wrote the next song" Ahahahahahahahahahaha It is wonderfull!!!!!!

I love Pete. Major influence. But .... how ironic, he put Bobby down for so long. Now Pete sings a song he never understood. And he has to have the words written down on the stage. Imagine how Bobby sang this song without checking his words. The words were in his soul. If any of you are too young to have known Bob, listen to the original. Or even ... Patti Smith performing it at Bob's Nobel ceremony. Pete? Good man. Bob? World-changing genius. And Pete didn't recognize that when so many of us did.

I had never seen this video. I love, love it.

Lovely! Thank you!

Great Pete🍀🌷🙏

Great song and Great singer

I love it

@donqlfzahnke8158

6 жыл бұрын

Bernadette s. so do I

Fantastic interpretation; utterly convincing

how wonderfully this man sings, how valuable are his songs. and take a look at the people their souls are reflected. thank god and ask him that we get comforting songs into the world again that we humans need so much.

@bubu345

5 ай бұрын

My flame can fight the lightning 😮

Maravilloso!!!! 🙌

Gracias.

Thanks a lot for posting!

This song of Bob Dylan in the voice of Pete Seeger is a gift of God to us...

@davidmoore9150

Жыл бұрын

Hello,how are you doing,how is the weather?

recién hoy conocí y le presté atención a la obra de Pete Seeger. Que belleza. Lo conocí por un gran programa de radio Universidad de la Universidad más antigua de américa que se encuentra en Córdoba. El programa se llama GPS y lo conduce Víctor Pintos una persona que conoce mucho de músicos estilos y personas muy comprometidas con causas nobles. Gracias por subir estos temas que son himnos de paz.

Thank you.

@davidmoore9150

Жыл бұрын

Hello there,how are you doing,how is the weather?

Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! Gracias, muchas gracias por subir ese vídeo con tan alta calidad... Que Dios te bendiga.

Um violão uma letra um intérprete uma platéia : Emoção!

I wonder if these two giants of music have ever met or performed together? RIP Pete, what will happen when Dylan is the next to pass away. Music will never be the same again

@kingpetra6886

Жыл бұрын

They have met, many times. They both were part of the scene in Greenwich Village during the height of the folk era and both appeared at the Newport Folk festivals. They more or less parted ways after Dylan went electric.

I've watched three of Seegers' songs in this Aussie crowd. What a wooden crowd, it was a real long uphill road to get any animation out of any of them.

@jahermos

3 жыл бұрын

It was painful to watch them! Hahaha

Um cantor esquecido em Portugal .Merecia mais atenção. Peter Seeger para sempre

Que gran artista pete, junto con joan baez, irremplazables.

Just wow.

Very good rendition

If you have a Pete Seeger or Bob Dylan collection this version needs to be in it.

Un músic i persona íntegre. No va renunciar mai a les seves idees. Un músico y persona íntegra. No renunció nunca a sus ideas. La caza de brujas no pudo con él. Ojalá que este gran país, EE UU. encuentre el camino a la verdadera democracia y la paz. Todos dependemos de ello.