Pete Seeger discography

The discography of Pete Seeger, an American folk singer, consists of 52 studio albums, 23 compilation albums, 22 live albums, and 31 singles. Seeger's musical career started in 1940 when he joined The Almanac Singers.[1] He stayed with the group for two years until he was drafted into the Army to fight in the Second World War.[2] After the end of World War II in 1945, Seeger helped found an organization known as People's Songs, along with the influential folk music magazine People's Songs Bulletin. He published several singles and a studio album with the magazine.[3] Seeger would play at People's Songs events, called hootenannies, until the organization folded in 1949.[4] After People's Songs, Seeger and another former member of the Almanacs, Lee Hays, founded the Weavers, who achieved commercial success.[5] In 1952, The Weavers went on hiatus due to the Red Scare; Seeger and Hays both had Communist ties.[6] After the demise of the Weavers, Seeger released a solo album, American Folk Songs for Children, in 1953 on Folkways Records. He continued to release albums on Folkways until he signed with Capitol in 1961.

This is the discography of Pete Seeger as a solo artist. For albums that Seeger released as part of The Almanac Singers (1940–1942) or The Weavers (1948–1952 and 1955–1957), see each group's respective discography.
Pete Seeger discography
Seeger at the Clearwater Festival, 2007.
Studio albums52
Live albums22
Compilation albums23
Singles31

Albums

Studio albums
List of studio albums with re-releases and award nominations
Title Release date Label Grammy Nominations Ref(s)
American Banjo 1944 Asch [7]
Let's all Join In 1948 Young People's Records [7]
Sea Songs 1948 Young People's Records [7]
Darling Corey 1950 Folkways [8]
American Folk Songs for Children 1953 Folkways [9]
Frontier Ballads 1954 Folkways [10]
How to Play the 5-String Banjo 1954 Folkways [11]
Bantu Choral and Folk Songs 1955 Folkways [12]
Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Little Fishes 1955 Folkways [13]
Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Bigger Fishes 1955 Folkways [14]
Camp Songs 1955 Folkways [15]
The Folksinger's Guitar Guide, Vol. 1: An Instruction Record 1955 Folkways
Goofing-Off Suite 1955 Folkways [16]
Love Songs for Friends and Foes 1956 Folkways [17]
American Industrial Ballads 1956 Folkways
American Ballads 1957 Folkways
American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1 December 1957 Folkways [18]
American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 2 1958 Folkways [19]
Gazette, Vol. 1 1958 Folkways [20]
Sleep-Time: Songs & Stories [lower-alpha 1] 1958 Folkways [21]
American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 3 1959 Folkways [22]
American Play Parties 1959 Folkways [23]
Folk Songs for Young People 1959 Folkways Best Recording for Children [24]
Nonesuch and Other Folk Tunes 1959 Folkways [25]
Champlain Valley Songs 1960 Folkways [26]
Song and Play Time with Pete Seeger 1960 Folkways [27]
Songs of the Civil War 1960 Folkways [28]
Indian Summer 1960 Folkways [29]
Story Songs April 1961 Columbia [30]
Songs of Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon May 1961 Folkways [31]
American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 4 1961 Folkways [32]
Gazette, Vol. 2 1961 Folkways [33]
Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Vol. 1 1961 Folkways [34]
Activity Songs 1962 Folkways [35]
American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 5 1962 Folkways [36]
The 12-String Guitar as Played by Leadbelly 1962 Folkways [37]
Broadside Ballads, Vol. 2 1963 Folkways [38]
Broadsides: Songs and Ballads 1964 Folkways [39]
God Bless the Grass 17 January 1966 Columbia Best Folk Recording [40]
Dangerous Songs!? 1966 Columbia [41]
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Other Love Songs August 1967 Columbia Best Folk Performance [42]
Traditional Christmas Carols 1967 Folkways [43]
Pete Seeger Now 1968 Columbia [44]
Pete Seeger Young vs. Old 1969 Columbia [45]
Rainbow Race 1971 Columbia [46]
Banks of Marble and Other Songs 1974 Columbia [47]
Pete Seeger and Brother Kirk Visit Sesame Street 1974 Sesame Street [48]
Fifty Sail on Newburgh Bay 1976 Folkways [49]
Circles and Seasons 1979 Warner Bros. [50]
A Fish That's a Song 1990 [51]
Pete 16 April 1996 Living Music Best Traditional Folk Album[lower-alpha 2] [52]
Seeds - The Songs Of Pete Seeger: Volume 3 23 September 2003 Appleseed Best Traditional Folk Album
At 89 30 September 2008 Appleseed Best Traditional Folk Album[lower-alpha 2]
Tomorrow's Children 27 July 2010 Appleseed Best Musical Album for Children[lower-alpha 2]
A More Perfect Union September 25, 2012 Appleseed [53]
Pete Remembers Woody 25 September 2012 Appleseed [54]

Live albums
List of live albums with re-releases and award nominations
Title Release date Label Grammy Nominations Ref(s)
A Pete Seeger Concert 1953 Folkways [55]
With Voices Together We Sing 1956 Folkways [56]
Hootenanny at Carnegie Hall 1960 Folkways [57]
Pete Seeger at the Village Gate with Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon 1960 Folkways [58]
Sing Out with Pete! 1961 Folkways [59]
Pete Seeger at the Village Gate, Vol. 2 1962 [60]
The Bitter and the Sweet: Recorded In Person At The Bitter End 1962 Columbia [61]
Children's Concert at Town Hall 1963 Columbia Best Recording for Children [62]
We Shall Overcome 1963 Folkways [63]
Sing Out! Hootenanny 1963 Folkways [64]
I Can See a New Day 1964 Columbia [65]
Sing with Seeger! 1964 Folkways [66]
Strangers and Cousins 1964 Columbia Best Recording for Children [67]
Pete Seeger on Campus 1965 Verve Folkways [68]
WNEW's Story of Selma 1965 Folkways [69]
Pete Seeger Sings and Answers Questions at Ford Forum Hall Boston 1968 Folkways [70]
Singalong Demonstration Concert 1980 Folkways [71]
Pete Seeger's Family Concert 14 April 1992 Sony Kids’ Music [72]
Live at Newport 1 June 1993 Vanguard [73]
Live in Lisbon 28 June 2000 Movieplay [74]
In Prague 1964 2001 Flyright [75]
Live in 65 10 November 2009 Appleseed [76]
The Complete Bowdoin College Concert 1960 19 April 2011 Smithsonian Folkways [77]

Compilation albums
List of compilation albums with re-releases and award nominations
Title Release date Label Source albums Ref(s)
Songs of Struggle & Protest: 1930-1950 1964 Folkways [78]
Pete Seeger Sings Woody Guthrie 1967 Folkways
Greatest Hits 1967 (reissued 2002 with 4 extra songs) Columbia, then Sony [79]
Pete Seeger Sings Leadbelly 1968 Folkways
Wimoweh (And Other Songs of Freedom and Protest) 1968 Folkways
The World of Pete Seeger 1974 Columbia
The Essential Pete Seeger 1978 Vanguard
We Shall Overcome: The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert 1989 Columbia We Shall Overcome [80]
Folk Music of the World 1991 Legacy [81]
Clearwater Classics 1993 Sony [82]
A Link in the Chain 3 September 1996 Legacy [83]
Best of Pete Seeger 30 September 1997 Vanguard [84]
Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes (Little & Big) 17 February 1998 Folkways Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Little Fishes and Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Bigger Fishes [85]
For Kids and Just Plain Folks 24 March 1998 Sony [86]
If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle 19 May 1998 Folkways [87]
The Original Folkways Recordings 23 February 1999 Legacy [88]
Headlines and Footnotes: Collection of Topical Songs 18 May 1999 Folkways [89]
Pioneer of Folk 1 August 1999 Prism [90]
American Folk, Game and Activity Songs for Children 25 January 2000 Folkways American Folk Songs for Children and American Game and Activity Songs for Children [91]

Singles
List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name
Year Title Peak chart positions Album Ref(s)
US
[92]
1941 "Song for Harry Bridges" — [93]
1942 "Keep That Oil A-Rollin'" — [94]
1947 "Travelin' Death of Harry Sims" — [94]
"Zhankoye" — [95]
1948 "Black, Brown, and White Blues" — [95]
"Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase" — [95]
"Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" — [95]
1950 "Tzen, Tzen" — [96]
"Wreck of the John B" — [96]
"Lonesome Traveller" — [96]
1951 "Across the Wide Missouri" — [97]
"The Frozen Logger" — Darling Correy [97]
"Along the Colorado Trail" — [97]
"When the Saints Come Marching In" — [97]
"Jig Along Home" — [98]
"Join into the Game" — [98]
"Twelve Days of Christmas" — [98]
"Joy to the World" — [98]
"I Ride an Old Paint" — [98]
1952 "The Gandy Dancer's Ball" — [99]
"Hard, Ain't It Hard" — [99]
"Bay of Mexico" — [99]
1953 "Rock Island Line" — [99]
1958 "Done Laid Around" — [100]
1959 "The Battle of New Orleans" — Nonesuch and Other Folk Tunes [101]
"Skip to My Lou" — [100]
1963 "Little Boxes" 75 Broadside Ballads, Vol. 2
1965 "Healing River" — [101]
"Draft Dodger Rag" — Dangerous Songs!? [101]
1967 "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" — Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Other Love Songs [101]
1970 "I Feel like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag" — Pete Seeger Young vs. Old [100]
2012 "God's Counting on Me, God's Counting on You (Sloop Mix)" —

"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

References

Notes
  1. Re-titled Abiyoyo and Other Story Songs for Children for releases by Smithsonian Folkways.
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Citations
  1. Dunaway 2009, p. 82
  2. Dunaway 2009, pp. 116–19 and Winkler 2009, p. 33
  3. Winkler 2009, pp. 38–40
  4. Winkler 2009, p. 51
  5. Winkler 2009, pp. 57–64
  6. Winkler 2009, pp. 65–67
  7. Dunaway 2010, p. 8
  8. Dunaway 2010, p. 10
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  10. Ruhlmann, William. "Frontier Ballads". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  11. "How to Play the 5-String Banjo Releases". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  12. Ruhlmann, William. "Bantu Choral & Folk Songs". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  13. Hinkle, Bob. "Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Little Fishes". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  14. Ruhlmann, William. "Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Bigger Fishes". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  15. Ruhlmann, William. "Camp Songs". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  16. "Goofing-Off Suite". Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  17. Ruhlmann, William. "Love Songs for Friends and Foes". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  18. Elder, Bruce. "American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  19. Elder, Bruce. "American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 2". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  20. Ruhlmann, William. "Gazette, Vol. 1". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  21. Ruhlmann, William. "Abiyoyo and Other Story Songs for Children". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  22. Ruhlmann, William. "American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 3". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  23. Ruhlmann, William. "American Play Parties". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  24. Unterberger, Richie. "Folk Songs for Young People". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  25. Ruhlmann, William. "Nonesuch and Other Folk Tunes". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  26. Ruhlmann, William. "Champlain Valley Songs". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  27. Ruhlmann, William. "Song and Play Time with Pete Seeger". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  28. Ruhlmann, William. "Songs of the Civil War". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  29. Mason, Stewart. "Indian Summer". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  30. Mason, Stewart. "Story Songs". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  31. "Songs of Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  32. Ruhlmann, William. "American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 4". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  33. Ruhlmann, William. "Gazette, Vol. 2". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  34. Ruhlmann, William. "Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Vol. 1". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  35. Unterberger, Richie. "Activity Songs". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  36. Eder, Bruce. "American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 5". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  37. Ruhlmann, William. "The 12-String Guitar as Played by Leadbelly". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  38. Ruhlmann, William. "Broadside Ballads, Vol. 2". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  39. Ruhlmann, William. "Broadsides: Songs and Ballads". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  40. Ruhlmann, William. "God Bless the Grass". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  41. Ruhlmann, William. "Dangerous Songs!?". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  42. Mason, Stewart. "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Other Love Songs". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  43. Ruhlmann, William. "Sings Traditional Christmas Carols". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  44. Ruhlmann, William. "Pete Seeger Now". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  45. Ruhlmann, William. "Pete Seeger Young vs. Old". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  46. Ruhlmann, William. "Rainbow Race". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  47. Ruhlmann, William. "Banks of Marble and Other Songs". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  48. Ruhlmann, William. "Pete Seeger & Brother Kirk Visit Sesame Street". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  49. Ruhlmann, William. "Fifty Sail on Newburgh Bay". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  50. Ginell, Richard S. "Circles and Seasons". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  51. Ruhlmann, William. "A Fish That's a Song". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  52. Ruhlmann, William. "Pete". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  53. Poet, J. "A More Perfect Union". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  54. Leggett, Steve. "Pete Remembers Woody". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  55. Ruhlmann, William. "Pete Seeger". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  56. Ruhlmann, William. "With Voices Together We Sing". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  57. Ruhlmann, William. "Hootenanny at Carnegie Hall". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  58. Ruhlmann, William. "Pete Seeger at the Village Gate with Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  59. Ruhlmann, William. "Sing Out with Pete!". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  60. Ruhlmann, William. "Pete Seeger at the Village Gate, Vol. 2". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  61. Ruhlmann, William. "The Bitter and the Sweet". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  62. Elder, Bruce. "Children's Concert at Town Hall". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  63. Mason, Stewart. "Pete Seeger at Carnegie Hall". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  64. Ruhlmann, William. "Sing Out! Hootenanny". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  65. Ruhlmann, William. "I Can See a New Day". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  66. Ruhlmann, William. "Sing with Seeger!". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  67. Ruhlmann, William. "Strangers and Cousins". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  68. Ruhlmann, William. "Pete Seeger On Campus". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  69. Ruhlmann, William. "WNEW's Story of Selma". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  70. Ruhlmann, William. "Pete Seeger Sings and Answers Questions at Ford Forum Hall Boston". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  71. Ruhlmann, William. "Singalong Demonstration Concert". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  72. Ruhlmann, William. "Pete Seeger's Family Concert". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  73. Ruhlmann, William. "Live at Newport". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  74. "Live in Lisbon". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  75. "In Prague 1964". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  76. Ruhlmann, William. "Live in 65". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  77. Ruhlmann, William. "Live in 65". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  78. Ruhlmann, William. "Songs of Struggle & Protest: 1930–1950". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
  79. Unterberger, Richie. "Greatest Hits". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
  80. Ruhlmann, William. "We Shall Overcome: The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
  81. "Folk Music of the World Releases". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
  82. Small, Hank. "Clearwater Classics". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
  83. Ruhlmann, William. "A Link in the Chain". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
  84. "Best of Pete Seeger". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
  85. Ruhlmann, William. "Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Fishes (Little & Big)". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
  86. McDonald, Steven. "For Kids and Just Plain Folks". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
  87. Unterberger, Richie. "If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
  88. Leggett, Steve. "The Original Folkways Recordings". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
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  90. Ruhlmann, William. "Pioneer of Folk". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
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  94. Dunaway 2010, p. 172
  95. Dunaway 2010, p. 173
  96. Dunaway 2010, p. 175
  97. Dunaway 2010, p. 176
  98. Dunaway 2010, p. 177
  99. Dunaway 2010, p. 178
  100. Dunaway 2010, p. 179
  101. Popoff 2010, p. 1051

Bibliography
  • Dunaway, David King (2009). How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-49597-6.
  • Dunaway, David King (2010). A Pete Seeger Discography: Seventy Years of Recordings. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0810877184.
  • Popoff, Martin (2010). Goldmine Standard Catalog of American Records, 1948–1991 (7 ed.). Iola, WI: Krause Publications. ISBN 9781440211317.
  • Winkler, Allan M. (2009). "To Everything There is a Season": Pete Seeger and the Power of Song. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-971725-5.


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