Pete Seeger spent seven decades turning folk songs into vehicles for social conscience, from his Depression-era travels with Woody Guthrie through the Weavers' pop hits to his blacklisting during the McCarthy era and his tireless presence at civil-rights and antiwar rallies. He wrote or adapted a startling number of songs that passed into the culture as if they'd always existed, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" and "Turn! Turn! Turn!" among them. His five-string banjo and unwavering conviction made him the folk revival's conscience as much as its star.

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1962

Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)Pete Seeger