RARE PHOTO! Pete Seeger Signed Paul Mozell Photo Autograph World COA

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Up for auction a RARE! "If I Had A Hammer" Pete Seeger Signed Paul Mozell 8X10 B&W Photo.
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Peter Seeger
(May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and
social activist
. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of
the Weavers
, most notably their recording of
Lead Belly
's "
Goodnight, Irene
", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were
blacklisted
during the
McCarthy Era
. In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of
protest music
in support of
international disarmament
,
civil rights
,
counterculture
, and
environmental causes
. A prolific songwriter, his best-known songs include "
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
" (with
Joe Hickerson
), "
If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)
" (with
Lee Hays
of the Weavers), and "
Turn! Turn! Turn!
", which have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement. "Flowers" was a hit recording for
the Kingston Trio
(1962);
Marlene Dietrich
, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962); and
Johnny Rivers
(1965). "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for
Peter, Paul and Mary
(1962) and
Trini Lopez
(1963) while
the Byrds
had a number one hit with "Turn! Turn! Turn!" in 1965. Seeger was one of the folk singers responsible for popularizing the
spiritual
"
We Shall Overcome
" (also recorded by
Joan Baez
and many other singer-activists) that became the acknowledged anthem of the
Civil Rights Movement
, soon after folk singer and activist
Guy Carawan
introduced it at the founding meeting of the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) in 1960. In the
PBS
American Masters
episode "
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
", Seeger said it was he who changed the lyric from the traditional "We will overcome" to the more singable "We shall overcome".