We're continuing our April tour of songs about rivers that aren't specifically about the Mississippi. Moody River was a big hit for Pat Boone in 1961, which is something of a surprise given that the song is about a woman who drowned herself in a river after cheating on her boyfriend. Happy stuff. I prefer
Pete Seeger (WikiCommons) Pete Seeger passed away yesterday at the age of 94. A prolific songwriter, performer, and activist, the Song of the Day Department pays its respect with this classic Seeger tune, written in 1967 at the height of the Vietnam War.
Still June, still signing about mud. Pete Seeger, one of the most influential musicians in the past half century, wrote Waist Deep in the Big Muddy in 1967, a thinly disguised criticism of the war in Vietnam. He debuted the song on a Smothers Brothers show, but network executives stepped in and had it cut
