Where have all the flowers gone?

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10 peculiar folk themes from the 60s

When he delivers a song that later becomes popular, the singer-songwriter is just its creator and first performer. He has no control over how others will fix it and the song's later life is quite another story. The secondary fate experienced by each of the ten folk themes below is instructive in this regard:

WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE?

A internationally acclaimed poetic and melodic anti-war folk tune 

Pete Seeger (PETE SEEGER) wrote this powerful message-conveying song in 1953-1955 and began performing it on stage, but only released in 1960. The song was then covered in countless versions and languages.

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Pete Seeger - Where have all the flowers gone

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1960  ∙  Pete Seeger  ∙  1961  ∙  Kingston Trio  ∙  1962  ∙  Marlène Dietrich  (Sag mir wo die Blumen sind  ∙  Peter Paul & Mary  ∙  Dalida  (Que sont devenues les fleurs)  ∙  1965  ∙  Joan Baez  (Sag mir wo die Blumen sind)  ∙  Johnny Rivers   ∙  1966  ∙  Harry Belafonte  ∙ 1968  ∙  Chamber Brothers  ∙  1970  ∙  Lennart Duvsjö  (Inga blommor finns det mer)  ∙  1972  ∙  Richie Havens  ∙  1995  ∙  The Savage Rose  ∙  1999  ∙  Oleg Nesterov & Masha Makarova  (Где цветы? /Where are the flowers)  ∙  2009  ∙  Jimmy Sommerville  ∙  2020  ∙  Ema Papšová  ∙

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