who sings the song where have all the flowers gone
Pete Seeger
title: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? text: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" is a modern folk-style song. The melody and the first three verses were written by Pete Seeger in 1955 and published in "Sing Out!" magazine. Additional verses were added in May 1960 by Joe Hickerson, who turned it into a circular song. Its rhetorical "where?" and meditation on death place the song in the "ubi sunt" tradition. In 2010, the "New Statesman" listed it as one of the "Top 20 Political Songs". The 1964 release of the song as a Columbia Records Hall of Fame series 45 single, title: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? text: a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance." Where Have All the Flowers Gone? "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" is a modern folk-style song. The melody and the first three verses were written by Pete Seeger in 1955 and published in "Sing Out!" magazine. Additional verses were added in May 1960 by Joe Hickerson, who turned it into a circular song. Its rhetorical "where?" and meditation on death place the song in the "ubi sunt" tradition. In 2010, the "New Statesman" listed it title: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? text: 13-33088, by Pete Seeger was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002 in the Folk category. Seeger found inspiration for the song in October 1955 while he was on a plane bound for a concert at Oberlin College, one of the few venues which would hire him during the McCarthy era. Leafing through his notebook he saw the passage, "Where are the flowers, the girls have plucked them. Where are the girls, they've all taken husbands. Where are the men, they're all in the army." These lines were taken from the traditional Cossack folk song "Koloda-Duda", referenced in title: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? text: of the first in May 1960 in Bloomington, Indiana. In 2010, the "New Statesman" listed it as one of the "Top 20 Political Songs". The song appeared on the compilation album "Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits" (1967) released by Columbia Records as CS 9416. Pete Seeger's recording from the Columbia album "The Bitter and the Sweet" (November 1962), CL 1916, produced by John H. Hammond was also released as a Columbia Hall of Fame 45 single as 13-33088 backed by "Little Boxes" in August, 1965. Pete Seeger's recording of his composition was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is title: College Concert text: College Concert College Concert is the twelfth album by the American folk music group the Kingston Trio, released in 1962 (see 1962 in music). It was the group's third live release and the first live release with new member John Stewart. "College Concert" peaked at number three on the Billboard charts and was the largest-selling release by the Stewart-years Trio. The Trio recorded the single version of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" in a New York studio November 14, 1961 and claimed authorship, but they took their names off when Pete Seeger asked them to. The single, with "O