Trini Lopez
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| + | "[[Trini Lopez]], whose music was a mixture of [[folk music|folk]], [[lounge music|lounge pop]], and [[R&B]], was able to prosper before [[the Beatles came to America]] and [[Bob Dylan went electric]]. "Corazón de Melón" takes a Mexican folk tune, and like "Heart of my Heart", makes it into a relaxed, shuffling lounge tune. Trini mainly worked and recorded in a live setting (with a lot of audience participation), and soon the Beatles and [[The Beach Boys]] made [[studio recording]] effects dominant in rock, unfortunately making Trini's loose, [[breezy]] live-in-club style seem old fashioned all too soon."--Sholem Stein | ||
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| - | '''Peter "Pete" Seeger''' (born May 3, 1919) is an [[American folk music|American folk singer]], and a key figure in the mid-20th century [[American folk music revival]]. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 50s as a member of [[The Weavers]], most notably the 1950 recording of [[Leadbelly]]'s "[[Goodnight, Irene]]" that topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a pioneer of [[Protest song|protest music]] in support of international disarmament and civil rights and, more recently, as a tireless activist for environmental causes. | + | '''Trinidad "Trini" López III''' (May 15, 1937-August 11, 2020) was an American singer, guitarist, and actor. His first album included a [[cover version|version]] of "[[If I Had a Hammer]]", which earned a Golden Disc for him. His other hits included "[[Lemon Tree (Will Holt song)|Lemon Tree]]", "I'm Comin' Home, Cindy" and "Sally Was a Good Old Girl". He designed two guitars for the Gibson Guitar Corporation, which are now collectors’ items. |
| - | As a song writer, he is best known as the author or co-author of "[[Where Have All the Flowers Gone?]]", "[[If I Had a Hammer|If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)]]" (composed with [[Lee Hays]] of The Weavers), and "[[Turn! Turn! Turn! (song)|Turn, Turn, Turn!]]", which have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement and are still sung throughout the world. "Flowers" was a hit recording for [[The Kingston Trio]] (1962), [[Marlene Dietrich]], who recorded it in English, German and French (1962), and [[Johnny Rivers]] (1965). "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for [[Peter, Paul & Mary]] (1962) and [[Trini Lopez]] (1963), while [[The Byrds]] popularized "Turn, Turn, Turn!" in the mid-1960s, as did [[Judy Collins]] in 1964. Seeger was one of the folksingers most responsible for popularizing the spiritual "[[We Shall Overcome]]" (also recorded by [[Joan Baez]] and many other singer-activists) that became the acknowledged anthem of the 1960s [[African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)|American Civil Rights Movement]], soon after folk singer and activist [[Guy Carawan]] introduced it at the founding meeting of the [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]] (SNCC) in 1960. | ||
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"Trini Lopez, whose music was a mixture of folk, lounge pop, and R&B, was able to prosper before the Beatles came to America and Bob Dylan went electric. "Corazón de Melón" takes a Mexican folk tune, and like "Heart of my Heart", makes it into a relaxed, shuffling lounge tune. Trini mainly worked and recorded in a live setting (with a lot of audience participation), and soon the Beatles and The Beach Boys made studio recording effects dominant in rock, unfortunately making Trini's loose, breezy live-in-club style seem old fashioned all too soon."--Sholem Stein |
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Trinidad "Trini" López III (May 15, 1937-August 11, 2020) was an American singer, guitarist, and actor. His first album included a version of "If I Had a Hammer", which earned a Golden Disc for him. His other hits included "Lemon Tree", "I'm Comin' Home, Cindy" and "Sally Was a Good Old Girl". He designed two guitars for the Gibson Guitar Corporation, which are now collectors’ items.
