Pete Seeger discography

This is the discography of Pete Seeger as a solo artist. For albums that Seeger released as part of The Almanac Singers (1940–1942) or The Weavers (1948–1952 and 1955–1957), see each group's respective discography.

The discography of Pete Seeger, an American folk singer, consists of 52 studio albums, 23 compilation albums, 22 live albums, and 31 singles. Seeger's musical career started in 1940 when he joined The Almanac Singers.^[1] He stayed with the group for two years until he was drafted into the Army to fight in the Second World War.^[2] After the end of World War II in 1945, Seeger helped found an organization known as People's Songs, along with the influential folk music magazine People's Songs Bulletin. He published several singles and a studio album with the magazine.^[3] Seeger would play at People's Songs events, called hootenannies, until the organization folded in 1949.^[4] After People's Songs, Seeger and another former member of the Almanacs, Lee Hays, founded the Weavers, who achieved commercial success.^[5] In 1952, The Weavers went on hiatus due to the Red Scare; Seeger and Hays both had Communist ties.^[6] After the demise of the Weavers, Seeger released a solo album, American Folk Songs for Children, in 1953 on Folkways Records. He continued to release albums on Folkways until he signed with Capitol in 1961.

Pete Seeger discography
Seeger at the Clearwater Festival, 2007.
Studio albums	52
Live albums	22
Compilation albums	23
Singles	31

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio albums with re-releases and award nominations

Title	Release date	Label	Grammy Nominations	Ref(s)
American Banjo	1944	Asch		[7]
Let's all Join In	1948	Young People's Records
Sea Songs
Darling Corey	1950	Folkways		[8]
American Folk Songs for Children	1953			[9]
Frontier Ballads	1954			[10]
How to Play the 5-String Banjo				[11]
Bantu Choral and Folk Songs	1955			[12]
Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Little Fishes				[13]
Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Bigger Fishes				[14]
Camp Songs				[15]
The Folksinger's Guitar Guide, Vol. 1: An Instruction Record
Goofing-Off Suite				[16]
Love Songs for Friends and Foes	1956			[17]
American Industrial Ballads
American Ballads	1957
American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1	December 1957			[18]
American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 2	1958			[19]
Gazette, Vol. 1				[20]
Sleep-Time: Songs & Stories [a]				[21]
American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 3	1959			[22]
American Play Parties				[23]
Folk Songs for Young People			Grammy Award for Best Album for Children	[24]
Nonesuch and Other Folk Tunes				[25]
Champlain Valley Songs	1960			[26]
Song and Play Time with Pete Seeger				[27]
Songs of the Civil War				[28]
Indian Summer				[29]
Story Songs	April 1961	Columbia		[30]
Songs of Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon	May 1961	Folkways		[31]
American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 4	1961			[32]
Gazette, Vol. 2				[33]
Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Vol. 1				[34]
Activity Songs	1962			[35]
American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 5				[36]
The 12-String Guitar as Played by Leadbelly				[37]
Broadside Ballads, Vol. 2	1963			[38]
Broadsides: Songs and Ballads	1964			[39]
God Bless the Grass	January 17, 1966	Columbia	Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording	[40]
Dangerous Songs!?	1966			[41]
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Other Love Songs	August 1967		Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance	[42]
Traditional Christmas Carols	1967	Folkways		[43]
Pete Seeger Now	1968	Columbia		[44]
Pete Seeger Young vs. Old	1969			[45]
Rainbow Race	1971			[46]
Banks of Marble and Other Songs	1974			[47]
Pete Seeger and Brother Kirk Visit Sesame Street		Sesame Street		[48]
Fifty Sail on Newburgh Bay	1976	Folkways		[49]
Circles and Seasons	1979	Warner Bros.		[50]
A Fish That's a Song	1990			[51]
Pete	April 16, 1996	Living Music	Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album[b]	[52]
Seeds - The Songs Of Pete Seeger: Volume 3	September 23, 2003	Appleseed	Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album
At 89	September 30, 2008		Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album[b]
Tomorrow's Children	July 27, 2010		Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children[b]
A More Perfect Union	September 25, 2012			[53]
Pete Remembers Woody				[54]

Live albums

List of live albums with re-releases and award nominations

Title	Release date	Label	Grammy Nominations	Ref(s)
A Pete Seeger Concert	1953	Folkways		[55]
With Voices Together We Sing	1956			[56]
Hootenanny at Carnegie Hall	1960			[57]
Pete Seeger at the Village Gate with Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon				[58]
Sing Out with Pete!	1961			[59]
Pete Seeger at the Village Gate, Vol. 2	1962			[60]
The Bitter and the Sweet: Recorded In Person At The Bitter End		Columbia		[61]
Children's Concert at Town Hall	1963		Grammy Award for Best Recording for Children	[62]
We Shall Overcome				[63]
Sing Out! Hootenanny		Folkways		[64]
I Can See a New Day	1964	Columbia		[65]
Sing with Seeger!		Folkways		[66]
Strangers and Cousins		Columbia	Grammy Award for Best Recording for Children	[67]
Pete Seeger on Campus	1965	Verve Folkways		[68]
WNEW's Story of Selma		Folkways		[69]
Pete Seeger Sings and Answers Questions at Ford Forum Hall Boston	1968			[70]
Singalong Demonstration Concert	1980			[71]
Pete Seeger's Family Concert	April 14, 1992	Sony Kids’ Music		[72]
Live at Newport	June 1, 1993	Vanguard		[73]
Live in Lisbon	June 28, 2000	Movieplay		[74]
In Prague 1964	2001	Flyright		[75]
Live in 65	November 10, 2009	Appleseed		[76]
The Complete Bowdoin College Concert 1960	April 19, 2011	Smithsonian Folkways		[77]

Compilation albums

List of compilation albums with re-releases and award nominations

Title	Release date	Label	Source albums	Ref(s)
Songs of Struggle & Protest: 1930-1950	1964	Folkways		[78]
Pete Seeger Sings Woody Guthrie	1967
Greatest Hits	1967 (reissued 2002 with 4 extra songs)	Columbia, then Sony		[79]
Pete Seeger Sings Leadbelly	1968	Folkways
Wimoweh (And Other Songs of Freedom and Protest)
The World of Pete Seeger	1974	Columbia
The Essential Pete Seeger	1978	Vanguard
We Shall Overcome: The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert	1989	Columbia	We Shall Overcome	[80]
Folk Music of the World	1991	Legacy		[81]
Clearwater Classics	1993	Sony		[82]
A Link in the Chain	September 3, 1996	Legacy		[83]
Best of Pete Seeger	September 30, 1997	Vanguard		[84]
Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes (Little & Big)	February 17, 1998	Folkways	Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Little Fishes and Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Bigger Fishes	[85]
For Kids and Just Plain Folks	March 24, 1998	Sony		[86]
If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle	May 19, 1998	Folkways		[87]
The Original Folkways Recordings	February 23, 1999	Legacy		[88]
Headlines and Footnotes: Collection of Topical Songs	May 18, 1999	Folkways		[89]
Pioneer of Folk	August 1, 1999	Prism		[90]
American Folk, Game and Activity Songs for Children	January 25, 2000	Folkways	American Folk Songs for Children and American Game and Activity Songs for Children	[91]

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name

Year	Title	Peak chart positions	Album	Ref.
		US [92]
1941	"Song for Harry Bridges"	—		[93]
1942	"Keep That Oil A-Rollin'"			[94]
1947	"Travelin' Death of Harry Sims"
	"Zhankoye"			[95]
1948	"Black, Brown, and White Blues"
	"Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase"
	"Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye"
1950	"Tzen, Tzen"			[96]
	"Wreck of the John B"
	"Lonesome Traveller"
1951	"Across the Wide Missouri"			[97]
	"The Frozen Logger"		Darling Correy
	"Along the Colorado Trail"
	"When the Saints Come Marching In"
	"Jig Along Home"			[98]
	"Join into the Game"
	"Twelve Days of Christmas"
	"Joy to the World"
	"I Ride an Old Paint"
1952	"The Gandy Dancer's Ball"			[99]
	"Hard, Ain't It Hard"
	"Bay of Mexico"
1953	"Rock Island Line"
1958	"Done Laid Around"			[100]
1959	"The Battle of New Orleans"		Nonesuch and Other Folk Tunes	[101]
	"Skip to My Lou"			[100]
1963	"Little Boxes"	75	Broadside Ballads, Vol. 2
1965	"Healing River"	—		[101]
	"Draft Dodger Rag"		Dangerous Songs!?
1967	"Waist Deep in the Big Muddy"		Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Other Love Songs
1970	"I Feel like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag"		Pete Seeger Young vs. Old	[100]
2012	"God's Counting on Me, God's Counting on You (Sloop Mix)"

"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.