I'd never heard this version before - wonderful! My dad (Ed McCurdy) wrote this song, but I've always been grateful to Pete for popularizing it with such heart and soul.
The great Ed McCurdy! The same man who sang those lusty old "dalliance" songs! What a wonderful composition that resonates even today. Not to mention the man who played Freddy The Fireman. :-) Your Dad was a legend I only discovered after he was gone.
I love this song. My brother and I would listen to the Simon and Garfunkel version often. When my brother died, I decided to have this song played at the hospice when we took him out. It was my decision as to what to play, and I thought this best honoured him!
I'd never heard this version before - wonderful! My dad (Ed McCurdy) wrote this song, but I've always been grateful to Pete for popularizing it with such heart and soul.
Thanks for posting this. God love your father.
The great Ed McCurdy! The same man who sang those lusty old "dalliance" songs! What a wonderful composition that resonates even today. Not to mention the man who played Freddy The Fireman. :-) Your Dad was a legend I only discovered after he was gone.
How wonderful!
I love this song. My brother and I would listen to the Simon and Garfunkel version often. When my brother died, I decided to have this song played at the hospice when we took him out. It was my decision as to what to play, and I thought this best honoured him!
Beautiful song, very good singers. Rest in peace Peter.
This still makes me cry.
Pete also gave us Where Have All The Flowers Gone.. I grew up on that song.. It helped to develop who I am.
What a magnificent song. And done wonderfully here.
watch this video in 2024 with a more complicated feeling...love&peace
Rest in Peace, Pete Seeger. I pray that the "strangest dream" will be realized in my lifetime. We must "keep on keeping on" in the pursuit of peace.
Timeless . . .
If countries would drop the instruments of the Military Industrial Complex- and pick up the instruments of music - we would be UNITED - by its power!
A GREAT SONG for the day before elections !!!
So is your comment - thanks !
so cool...thanx......
Unitarian universalist of society Burlington
Now more than ever. Where is our new Pete Seeger?
Who's the guy on the left? He looks familiar but can't name him for the life of me!
That is Theo Bikel
Anyone sang this at "UN-DAY" 24th of Octorber, or is it only the Nordics that sings it