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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 14. september 1963 / Timeline September 14, 1963
Version 3.513. September 1963, 15. September 1963
09/14/1963
The ABC television network invited singer, songwriter, banjo player
and activist Pete
Seeger to appear on its Saturday night folk and acoustic
music show, Hootenanny, despite the fact that he had been
blacklisted. But the invitation stood only if he'd sign an oath of
loyalty to the U.S. He described his reaction: "This is ridiculous.
I’d sign ’em, if you sign ’em, and everybody
whose born will sign ’em, then we’d all be clean,"
notes This week in peace history.
'The program was not without controversy and is remembered today as
the show that blacklisted Pete Seeger (along with other members of
Seeger's group The Weavers), for alleged communist affiliations.
For this reason, several of the genre's most prominent acts - The
Kingston Trio, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Peter, Paul & Mary,
among others - refused to appear. Nevertheless, folk music was then
at its commercial peak and Hootenanny was a ratings success.
To its credit, the program did strive for a balance between
commercial folk groups (The Limeliters, The New Christy Minstrels)
and ethnic folk performers (Theodore Bikel, Addis & Crofut,
Josh White). Topical songs were not avoided either - the Chad
Mitchell Trio, who appeared nine times, sang the satiric "John
Birch Society," Tom Paxton's "What Did You Learn in School Today?"
and Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind." The otherwise well-scrubbed
Goodtime Singers covered Phil Ochs' "Freedom Calling (What's That I
Hear?)." And while Seeger and the Weavers were barred, their music
was not: The Simon Sisters performed Seeger's "Turn, Turn, Turn"
and The Chad Mitchell Trio performed his "Where Have All The
Flowers Gone?" (a hit for the boycotting Kingston Trio and
Peter, Paul & Mary); Bikel sang Weaver Fred Hellerman's
anti-war song "Come Away, Melinda,"' writes tv.com
Kilde:
- http://www.tv.com/hootenanny/show/10081/summary.html
09/14/1963
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