Dangerous Songs [Original recording remastered]

Pete Seeger | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 12, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1966
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000006O77
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,958 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Is there anyone out there who remembers the 60s, August 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Dangerous Songs (Audio CD)

JFK, Lyndon Johnson, The Establishment, The Vietnam War . . . Pete Seeger was a well-known artist/folksinger, his mother a composer of quality and renown. And when the era of hootenanny of the fifties and early sixties were gone, and Pete Seeger was no longer one of the Weavers, he challenged the American conscience with these "dangerous songs." And why dangerous? We must not forget that in an age of McCarthy and his witchhunts, people like Pete Seeger were in danger of being labeled communists and being persecuted whenever they gave a wake-up call to common sense, social responsibility and budding eco-awareness. One of the songs,DIE GEDANKEN SIND FREI (thoughts are free) an adaptation of a song long used among German-speaking cultures (German, Austrian, Swiss, South Tirolean, German-speaking and -singing Jews) has been around since the 16th or 17thcentury (country or time of origin not entirely clear), needed only to be whistled or hummed to indicate to others that the whistler was a freedom-seeker.What a fine choice of a song to bring to the "silent majority" opposing war in general, and the Vietnam War in particular.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Been 5 Stars since 1966, November 3, 2001

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Mr. Michael Kane (Waynesville, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dangerous Songs (Audio CD)

Pete's politics are hardly outdated. Anyone who thinks so never listened to "Dangerous Songs". making thr connection may be difficult for some and they are in the greatest danger.
Musically, they are as tuneful, musical, and provocative as all of Pete's performances. Buy It.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the best thing about this album may be the liner notes, December 10, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Dangerous Songs (Audio CD)

Pete Seeger, refuting the charge that political songs are somehow dangerous, notes that all songs are political; all songs have a message, and the degree to which we object to them depends on our own political position. He has a great line, something like, "To a four year old, a lullaby is propaganda."