Sunday Folk Festival Celebrating the 2025 Birthday of Pete Seeger and Funny Man Jerry Samuels, a.k.a. “Napoleon XIV”
by Robert Wilkinson We finish our Sunday sessions with a music legend and a very funny songwriter! I gave you the other two pop and soul/funk May 3 superstars on Friday and yesterday, and you get the folk icon today! The funny guy is after Pete’s set. Pete Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an activist and folk icon for over half a century! There’s little I could say to add to the legend that was Pete Seeger, so I’ll let his music speak for him. This year I’ve added a bunch of performances with the Weavers and his amazing work in the 60s! Pete began his career with the legendary Weavers. This is one of the songs they are most famous for! This is the version which the world knew before Hugo and Luigi hired a lyricist to give it words, changed the name, and gave it to the Tokens who gave us the version which topped the charts. Pete’s the only one in history who ever gave his royalties to Solomon Linda, who wrote it. “Wimoweh” Last year’s live 1956 performance of this tune h...