Who Wrote the Words to Turn! Turn! Turn!? Well, that is a tough question. The iconic Turn! Turn! Turn! probably has a lot of co-authors. Folk Legend Pete Seeger Photo Courtesy of Billboard "Pete Seeger, along with the folk missionaries Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays and Odetta, has sung authentic American folk songs for so many years that his own
What is the History of “We Shall Overcome”? Music History by da jack hayford - April 16, 2016May 28, 20230 The classic folk standard "We Shall Overcome" doesn't stay out of the news for very long. It has been a controversial "Public Domain" song for nearly a century. "It began as a folk work song, became a hymn, and then was used politically for the first time on the picket lines