Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest, Episode 35: Children from the Downtown Community School
1966
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Children from the Downtown Community School, whom Pete Seeger hosted earlier in episode 7, sing and dance with Seeger playing "Skip to My Lou," "Beans in Your Ears," "Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase," and "This Land is Your Land." Seeger had taught singing at the experimental, racially integrated Downtown Community School in the 1950s while blacklisted from other work for his refusal to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee. Rainbow Quest was a television program produced for one series run in 1965 and 1966 by the Advertisers Broadcasting Company for UHF station WNJU-TV in the New York City market. Throughout the show's 39-episode run, writer and curator of American folk songs Pete Seeger hosted many guest musicians. He also himself presented the histories of diverse American and international folk music traditions through spoken and musical segments.