The first song to “go viral”?
Sunday, February 24th, 2008Beautiful piece, on Bob Edwards Weekend, on Pete Seeger, one of my heroes.
He tells the story of Woody Guthrie’s writing This Land is Your Land. I paraphrase:
“A few teachers started singing it, and it just got sung. It was never sold, it was never distributed, it was never played on the radio, it just passed [...]