Where Have All the Flowers Gone by Donna Loren

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Ms. Loren's 2015 New Year’s Resolution was to re-learn 100 songs she recorded and/or performed in the Sixties. In the privacy of her home she is documenting this process and releasing the videos as she goes along.

Originally performed and broadcast by Ms. Loren on Shindig! on 11/13/65, this song was written by Pete Seeger. Seeger found inspiration for the song in October 1955, while on a plane bound for a concert at Oberlin College, one of the few venues which 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 Cossack folk song "Koloda-Duda", referenced in the Mikhail Sholokhov novel And Quiet Flows the Don (1934), which Seeger had read "at least a year or two before". Seeger created a song, which was subsequently published in Sing Out in 1962. With only three verses, he recorded it once in a medley on The Rainbow Quest album released in July 1960 and forgot about it. Joe Hickerson added verses four and five, and a repeat of verse one, in May 1960.

You can see the 1965 performance on Shindig here: https://youtu.be/zZtdIJQWQTA

Donna Loren was the one-and-only "Dr Pepper Girl" from 1963 to 1968. She was signed to a long-term contract with the soft-drink company to sing all television and radio commercials, do all magazine and billboard advertising representing them in every capacity, sometimes sharing the spotlight with American Bandstand's Dick Clark. This relationship led to her touring in Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars with other popular acts like Diana Ross and The Supremes and singing solos in the popular Beach Party films starring Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon. Later, she became the regular female vocalist on the popular 60's American live rock n roll TV show "Shindig" and she appeared in singing and acting roles in many iconic TV shows like Batman, The Monkees, Gomer Pyle, The Mothers-In-Law, Red Skelton, Milton Berle and various game shows. In the 60's she released 20 singles and an LP. Her latest CD entitled "Love It Away" is her first new music in years. Hear it at http://www.DonnaLoren.com.

Also check out the Donna Loren Classic channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/DonnaLorenClassic

Song

Where Have All the Flowers Gone

Performed by

Donna Loren

Originally by

Pete Seeger

Video title

Where Have All The Flowers Gone-Donna Loren (Unplugged 2015)

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