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To: joseffy who wrote (766539)1/28/2014 7:01:36 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574905
 
He didn't need to have a voice which pleases you. Didn't try to get into a college chorus.

“I come from a family of teachers, and I was looking for a job on a newspaper and not getting one,” he said in the interview. “I had an aunt who said, ‘Peter, I can get five dollars for you if you come and sing some of your songs in my class.’ Five dollars? In 1939, you would have to work all day or two days to make five dollars. It seemed like stealing.”

But Seeger said he took his aunt up on the offer.

“Pretty soon I was playing school after school, and I never did work on a newspaper,” he said “You don’t have to play at nightclubs, you don’t have to play on TV, just go from college to college to college, and the kids will sing along with you.”
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