I think we’re going to end off our list
with what i like to call songs that
inspire a movement this isn’t
necessarily a movement within itself
this is kind of songs that are so
powerful that they seem to be associated
over and over again as political protest
songs no matter what the movement you
can find a way to associate these songs
with them the best example of a song
like this is we shall overcome there’s a
lot a bit of speculation as to where
exactly this song derives from a lot of
people think that it comes from Reverend
Charles Tilton’s i’ll overcome which was
written somewhere around the 19 around
me the the turn of the 20th century
we’re not positive executive and as the
story goes it’s I mean it’s it’s just
one of these great stories we’re like a
you know an african-american women in
Charleston heard it and saying about a
at a tobacco company you know and and
she sold it to her to a white woman her
friends ofili a Horton some who sang it
to the finders of a high grove Folk
Festival and one of those people saying
it to Pete Seeger all of this to say
eventually the song got back to pete
seeger now Pete Seeger is someone who
definitely is is phenomenal I mean we
know him as part of like folk movement
we know him as someone who was a civil
activist he produced sing out which was
a magazine and pete seeger is also the
same person who who I mean how many
times is his man been to Washington it
just led people in song you know I mean
this is the same guy who who had
everyone chanting John Lennon’s give
peace a chance at the La Jolla at the
march on Washington and 69 and it’s pete
seeger who who really popularized we
shall overcome he actually changed it
from i’ll overcome to we shall overcome
and at some point in the 60s you know
when everything was being copyrighted
nobody really knew exactly where this
song come from or what the story was so
Pete Seeger went ahead and he
copyrighted it all the royalties from
this song go to the we shall overcome
fund which is administered by highland
during used to give small grants for
cultural expression involving
african-american organizations in the
u.s. south which is really cool and like
go Pete Seeger for doing that you know
and
you don’t care about a lot of people who
get the rights to songs or copyright
songs and then do something really good
and fit Pete Seeger someone who’s really
turned around and he kind of said i’m
gonna copy write this off but I take
responsibility for the fact that I
didn’t write it and every done that
comes in from this song I’m gonna get
back to a social activist cause so which
is why I thought it was great to end
with we shall overcome isn’t that a
wonderful message
with what i like to call songs that
inspire a movement this isn’t
necessarily a movement within itself
this is kind of songs that are so
powerful that they seem to be associated
over and over again as political protest
songs no matter what the movement you
can find a way to associate these songs
with them the best example of a song
like this is we shall overcome there’s a
lot a bit of speculation as to where
exactly this song derives from a lot of
people think that it comes from Reverend
Charles Tilton’s i’ll overcome which was
written somewhere around the 19 around
me the the turn of the 20th century
we’re not positive executive and as the
story goes it’s I mean it’s it’s just
one of these great stories we’re like a
you know an african-american women in
Charleston heard it and saying about a
at a tobacco company you know and and
she sold it to her to a white woman her
friends ofili a Horton some who sang it
to the finders of a high grove Folk
Festival and one of those people saying
it to Pete Seeger all of this to say
eventually the song got back to pete
seeger now Pete Seeger is someone who
definitely is is phenomenal I mean we
know him as part of like folk movement
we know him as someone who was a civil
activist he produced sing out which was
a magazine and pete seeger is also the
same person who who I mean how many
times is his man been to Washington it
just led people in song you know I mean
this is the same guy who who had
everyone chanting John Lennon’s give
peace a chance at the La Jolla at the
march on Washington and 69 and it’s pete
seeger who who really popularized we
shall overcome he actually changed it
from i’ll overcome to we shall overcome
and at some point in the 60s you know
when everything was being copyrighted
nobody really knew exactly where this
song come from or what the story was so
Pete Seeger went ahead and he
copyrighted it all the royalties from
this song go to the we shall overcome
fund which is administered by highland
during used to give small grants for
cultural expression involving
african-american organizations in the
u.s. south which is really cool and like
go Pete Seeger for doing that you know
and
you don’t care about a lot of people who
get the rights to songs or copyright
songs and then do something really good
and fit Pete Seeger someone who’s really
turned around and he kind of said i’m
gonna copy write this off but I take
responsibility for the fact that I
didn’t write it and every done that
comes in from this song I’m gonna get
back to a social activist cause so which
is why I thought it was great to end
with we shall overcome isn’t that a
wonderful message
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