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The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City originally consisting of Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman. Founded in 1948, the group sang traditional folk songs from around the world, as well as blues , gospel music , children's songs, labor songs, and American ballads .
Ruby Ridge standoff. / 48.62056°N 116.43306°W / 48.62056; -116.43306. Ruby Ridge was the site of a siege of a cabin occupied by the Weaver family in Boundary County, Idaho, in August 1992. On August 21, deputies of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) came to arrest Randy Weaver under a bench warrant for his failure to appear on ...
If I Had a Hammer. " If I Had a Hammer ( The Hammer Song )" is a protest song written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays. It was written in 1949 in support of the Progressive movement, and was first recorded by the Weavers, a folk music quartet composed of Seeger, Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman. It was a #10 hit for Peter, Paul and Mary in ...
March 7, 1982. ( 1982-03-07) Running time. 78 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time! is a 1982 documentary film by Jim Brown.
Fred Hellerman (May 13, 1927 – September 1, 2016) was an American folk singer, guitarist, producer, and songwriter. Hellerman was an original member of the seminal American folk group The Weavers, together with Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, and Ronnie Gilbert. He produced the record album Alice's Restaurant (1967) for Arlo Guthrie, played ...
Fireship (song) " Fireship " [1] (alternatively titled "The Fire Ship", [2] "The Fireship", [3] or "Dark and Rolling Eye" [4]) is a risqué variation of the song "Roving Kind". The original song, first recorded by the Weavers, told a story of a sailor meeting an attractive girl who agrees to walk out with him, but the evening takes an ...
The Weavers at Carnegie Hall (1957) is the second album by the Weavers. The concert was recorded live at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Christmas Eve 1955. At the time the concert was a comeback for the group following the inclusion of the group on the entertainment industry blacklist. The album peaked at number 24 on the Billboard Top 200 ...
The Kindle Fire—which includes access to the Amazon Appstore, streaming movies and TV shows, and the Kindle Store for e-books —was released to consumers in the United States on November 14, 2011, after being announced on September 28. [8] The original Kindle Fire retailed for US$199 in 2011. [9] Estimates of the device's initial bill of ...