"Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. He was the nephew of American war poet Alan Seeger, ...
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who died fighting with the French Foreign Legion during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, Seeger 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." - (en.wikipedia.org 01.02.2020)