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John Hammond had already established his reputation as the talent scout/ producer who discovered Teddy Wilson, Billie Holiday and Count Basie when, in 1938, he floated the idea of presenting jazz,...
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We Shall Overcome
  In the age of Sing Out! and sing-alongs, John Hammond grokked the best way to present energetic forty-something Pete Seeger: live. Of his twelve original Columbia LPs issued between 1961 and 1973, the first five were stage performances, culminating with '63's Carnegie Hall Concert. The producers took the sing-along notion seriously, actually "mic-ing" the audience for the first time in recording history. Some 80 days later, at Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s March on Washington, this revamped Negro spiritual became the de facto anthem of the Civil Rights movement.

(Z. Horton/F. Hamilton/G. Carawan/P. Seeger); Produced by Mike Berniker and John Hammond; Pete Seeger, guitar and vocal; Rec. New York, June 8, 1963. From We Shall Overcome-The Carnegie Hall Concert, Columbia CS 8901 (XSM 75487); Originally Released 1963