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"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" is a
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written by American singer-songwriter
Pete Seeger Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and social activist. He was a fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s and had a string of hit records in the early 1950s as a member of The Weav ...
in 1955. Inspired lyrically by the traditional
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folk song "Koloda-Duda", Seeger borrowed an Irish melody for the music, and published the first three verses in ''
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'' magazine. Additional verses were added in May 1960 by Joe Hickerson, who turned it into a circular song. Its rhetorical "where?" and meditation on death place the song in the '' ubi sunt'' tradition. In 2010, the ''
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'' listed it as one of the "Top 20 Political Songs". The 1962 album version of the song was released as part of the
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Hall of Fame 45 single series in 1965 as 13–33088. The recording of the song by Pete Seeger was inducted into the
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in 2002 in the Folk category with the release year given as 1964 as a Columbia Records single.


Composition

Seeger found inspiration for the song in October 1955 while he was on a plane bound for a concert at
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, one of the few venues that would hire him during the McCarthy era. Leafing through his notebook, he saw the passage, "Where are the flowers, the girls have plucked them. Where are the girls, they've all taken husbands. Where are the men, they're all in the army." These lines were taken from the traditional
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folk-song "Koloda-Duda" (), referenced in the
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novel '' And Quiet Flows the Don'' (1934), which Seeger had read "at least a year or two before". In a 2013 interview, Seeger explained that he borrowed the melody from an Irish lumberjack song with the words 'Johnson says he'll load more hay.' He simply slowed the tune and incorporated the lines into it. He recorded and released a version with three verses on ''The Rainbow Quest'' album (Folkways LP FA 2454) in July 1960. Later, Joe Hickerson added two more verses with a recapitulation of the first in May 1960 in Bloomington, Indiana.Dunaway, David King (2008). ''How Can I Keep From Singing? The Ballad of Pete Seeger'', pp. 228–30. Random House, Inc. . Seeger published the song in ''Sing Out'' in 1962 as a copyrighted composition. The 1962 recording of the song appeared on the compilation album ''Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits'' (1967) released by Columbia Records as CS 9416. Pete Seeger's recording from the Columbia album ''The Bitter and the Sweet'' (November 1962), CL 1916, produced by
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, was also released as a Columbia Hall of Fame 45 single as 13-33088 backed by " Little Boxes" in August 1965.


Versions


1961−1964

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The Kingston Trio The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to the late 1960s. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, ...
recorded the song in 1961. Believing it to be a traditional song, they claimed authorship, although upon notice from Seeger, they had their name removed and credited Seeger and Hickerson. Seeger acknowledged their success with this song. Their single, with "O Ken Karanga" as the A-side and the hit "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" the B-side, reached number 21 in the 1962 ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and number four on the Easy Listening chart. *''The Landsmen'' released the song in 1961 as a 45 rpm single on Arvee. *
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included the song on their eponymous debut album (which spent five weeks as the number-one album in the United States) in 1962. *
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performed the song in English, French, and German. The song was first performed in French (as "''Qui peut dire où vont les fleurs?''") by Dietrich in 1962 at a
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concert. She also recorded the song in English and in
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, the latter titled "''Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind''", with lyrics translated by Max Colpet. She performed the German version on a tour of Israel, where she was warmly received; she was the first performer to break the taboo of publicly using the German language in Israel since WWII. Her version peaked number 20 in German charts. *
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(1933−1987), an Italian-French singer, also recorded the song in French as "Que sont devenues les fleurs?", adapted by Guy Béart in 1962 (''Les Années Barclay'', vol. 5, 1962). *The Folkswingers recorded an instrumental version of the song for their second album '' 12 String Guitar! Vol. 2'' (1963). * Jaap Fischer recorded the song in Dutch as "''Zeg me waar de bloemen zijn''" (single, B side of "''Jan Soldaat", 1963). * Conny van den Bos (1937−2002) recorded the song in Dutch "''Waar zijn al die bloemen toch?''", released 1963. *
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released their version on the album '' Meet the Searchers'', released in June 1963. *
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featuring
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released a version in German in 1963. *
Bobby Darin Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor who performed Pop music, pop, Swing music, swing, Folk music, folk, rock and roll, and country music. Darin started ...
(1936−1973) recorded the song on the ''Golden Folk Hits'' album on Capitol, 2007, which was released in November 1963. *
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and The Needmore Creek Singers recorded the song on October 9, 1963, and released it on the ''Folk Song Book'' album released in January 1964. * Erzsi Kovács (1928−2014), a Hungarian pop singer, recorded a version in Hungarian in 1964. * Heli Lääts (1932−2018), an Estonian concert singer, recorded a version in
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in 1964, with the title "''Kuhu küll kõik lilled jäid?''" *
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(1917−2020) recorded the song as the 11th cut on her 1964 album ''Among My Souvenirs''. * The Brothers Four recorded the song on their 1964 LP ''More Big Folk Hits'', Columbia Records, CL-2213. * The Four Seasons recorded the song on their 1964 Philips album ''Born to Wander'', PHM 200 129. * Lars Lönndahl recorded the song in 1964 with Swedish lyrics ''Inga blommor finns det mer'', translated in 1962 by Beppe Wolgers.


1965−1969

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included the German version (''Sagt mir wo die Blumen sind'') on her 1965 album '' Farewell Angelina''. * Johnny Rivers had a 1965 U.S. top-40 hit with a
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version, reaching number 26 on the ''Billboard ''Hot 100 and number 9 in Canada. * Grady Martin released an instrumental version in 1965 on his '' Instrumentally Yours'' album. *
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has made one recording of it at a benefit concert in Stockholm, Sweden, 1966 on the album BEL-1. * Walter Jackson recorded a R&B version in Chicago for
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in 1967. * Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs included the song on their 1968 album ''Changin' Times''. *Jazz guitarist
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recorded an instrumental version in his trademark style on the 1968 LP '' Road Song''. *
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recorded the song for their 1968 album '' A New Time – A New Day''. * The Peddlers recorded a studio version of the song for their 1969 album ''
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''. *In 1969, Rufus Harley recorded a jazz instrumental version on his trademark
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, but the track was never commercially released until it was included in his posthumously released, limited-edition collection ''Courage – The Atlantic Recordings'' in 2006. *The Yarkon Bridge Trio recorded in 1965 the
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version, written by
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, in their album ''First Love''.


1970−1979

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Roy Orbison Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his distinctive and powerful voice, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. Orbison's most successful periods were ...
recorded a version of the song, which appears on the album ''The Connoisseur's Orbison'' (1970). *American country singer Bill Anderson recorded the song on his December, 1970 album '' Where Have All Our Heroes Gone'', and on his eponymous 1971 album. *American R&B band
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covered the song on the 1972 album '' Last Days and Time''. *
Richie Havens Richard Pierce Havens (January 21, 1941 – April 22, 2013) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. His music encompassed elements of folk music, folk, soul music, soul (both of which he frequently cover song, covered), and rhythm and b ...
recorded the song in 1972. *
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, an English comedy rock band, included a version on their 1978 album ''Skite''. *''The Hi-Marks'', a popular 1970s group in New Zealand, recorded a version on their first album ''Showtime Spectacular'' (1979).


1980−1989

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recorded the song in 1980 and released it in the 1999 compilation album ''YMO GO HOME!'' *
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recorded a German version as the final track for his 1982 album '' Daß nichts bleibt wie es war''. *''
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'', a then-East German rock band formed in
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in 1972, recorded a German-language version in their 1983 album ''Unter der Haut''. *
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covered the song on his 1987 album '' We Shall Overcome''.


1990−1999

* Croatian folk band Zlatni Dukati performed a version of the song entitled "''Iznad polja makova''" ("Above the fields of poppy") during the
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(1991−1995), and recorded the song in their 1991 album ''U Meni Hrvatska''. * Serbian actor Dragan Maksimović performed a part of this song in the movie '' Mi nismo anđeli'' ("We are not Angels") recorded in 1992 in
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. * British folk-rock group The Tansads included a version on their 1995 live album ''Drag Down the Moon''. *Scottish-Nigerian singer-songwriter Nicolette covered the song on her 1996 album '' Let No-One Live Rent Free in Your Head''. * Kabir Suman translated the song to Bengali ("''Kothaye Gelo Tara''"). Suman and Seeger performed the English and Bengali versions one after the other twice during their ''Tour of
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'' in 1996. *A Russian version of the song was recorded in 1998 by Oleg Nesterov, a lead singer of Megapolis, and later performed in duet with Masha Makarova (of the rock band Masha i Medvedi) in a music video. * Irish folk band '' The Fureys'' recorded it for their albums ''Twenty One Years On'' (1999) and ''The Times They Are a Changing'' (2014)


2000−2009

*A Czech-language version of the song ("''Řekni, kde ty kytky jsou''") was also created and recorded by several popular artists, such as Judita Čeřovská, , or Marta Kubišová. Čeřovská's version was one of the OST songs of the 2001 Czech film
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. *A Polish-language version was sung by Sława Przybylska (Polish title: "''Gdzie są kwiaty z tamtych lat?''"). The song was released on the 2001 compilation album ''Pamiętasz Była Jesień''. * Adhunik Bengali singer Anjan Dutt covered the song in his 2001 album '' Rawng Pencil''. *
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thematically and lyrically mimic the song on the track "Letterbomb" from the 2004 album ''
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''. *
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recorded the song on her 2004 album '' Indigo: Women of Song''. *Country singer
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has also recorded a rendition of the song, on her 2005 album '' Those Were the Days''. * Chris de Burgh has recorded a version, which is featured on his 2008 album ''Footsteps''. *The song was sung at the funeral of Harry Patch, the last British soldier of the
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, in
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on August 9, 2009. *A piano version of the song by
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pop singer and songwriter
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appears on his 2009 album ''Suddenly Last Summer''. * Classical guitarist
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recorded an instrumental version in her 2009 album ''Journey to the New World''.


2010−2019

*Danish-German songwriter and entrepreneur Kirsten Hasberg, of Kassel, Germany, recorded a parody entitled "''Sag, die Energiewende, wo ist sie geblieben?''" about the German transition to renewable energies and "energy democracy" (2012). * Lara Veronin, a Russian-Taiwanese-American singer, recorded a version for the 2012 Taiwanese drama ''Alice in Wonder City''. * German avant-garde group
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recorded a German version of the song for their 2014 album ''
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''. *The Armistice Pals recorded a version in 2014 that was released as a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of World War One, and as a tribute to Pete Seeger, who had died earlier that year. The voice of Pete Seeger is heard in the recording along with that of his half-sister
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.


2020−present

* Canadian singer-songwriter
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recorded the German version ("''Sag mir wo die Blumen sind?''") for his 2022 album '' L'heure mauve''. * Russian actress and director
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performed a recitative on Russian ("Когда же Вы наконец поймёте?") over Marlene Dietrich's singing as a background, which can be an act against the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022). * Greek singer-songwriter Vasiliki Nika recorded the Greek version ("Τα λουλούδια χάθηκαν"). The video directed by Alexandros N. V. refers to the
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. * Belarusian singer-songwriter and artist Lavon Volski recorded the version in Belarusian "''Dzie kvietki?''" ("Дзе Кветкі?") in 2022. The video directed by Ihar Nazaranka contains drawings made by Lavon Volski himself.


Foreign-language titles


Grammy Hall of Fame

Pete Seeger's recording of his composition was inducted into the
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, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance."


See also

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References


Bibliography

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