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Twitter Gets It Wrong, Mixes Up Bob Seger With Pete Seeger

Sorry, Twitter, But Pete Seeger And Bob Seger Are Not The Same Person
Ann Brenoff
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Senior Reporter, HuffPost

Pete Seeger is entertaining and leading a crowd in a sing along. Among is causes was the environment and this annual festival was instrumental in calling attention to and cleaning up the pollution in New York's Hudson River. This is from 2007 and his voice was considerably weakened so almost all the songs had audience participation; he loved to get a crowd singing.The Clearwater Festival (officially The Great Hudson River Revival) is a music and environmental summer festival and America?s oldest and largest annual festival of its kind. This unique event has hosted over 15,000 people on a weekend in June for more than three decades. All proceeds benefit Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc., a nonprofit 501(c)(3) environmental organization. The Festival was founded in 1966 by Toshi Seeger and her husband, folk singer Pete Seeger, who regularly performs at it. (Wikipedia)
Pete Seeger is entertaining and leading a crowd in a sing along. Among is causes was the environment and this annual festival was instrumental in calling attention to and cleaning up the pollution in New York's Hudson River. This is from 2007 and his voice was considerably weakened so almost all the songs had audience participation; he loved to get a crowd singing.The Clearwater Festival (officially The Great Hudson River Revival) is a music and environmental summer festival and America?s oldest and largest annual festival of its kind. This unique event has hosted over 15,000 people on a weekend in June for more than three decades. All proceeds benefit Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc., a nonprofit 501(c)(3) environmental organization. The Festival was founded in 1966 by Toshi Seeger and her husband, folk singer Pete Seeger, who regularly performs at it. (Wikipedia)

Children, children, children. Honestly, please check your tweets for accuracy before hitting the Tweet button, OK?

The Twittersphere got it wrong this week in spreading word of the passing of legendary folk-singer Pete Seeger. Seeger, who was 94, brought the world such classics as "If I Had A Hammer" and "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?". What he didn't do was bring us "Night Moves," a song that entered our lives years later by Bob Seger, who is 68 and still very much alive.

But as the DailyDot duly noted, the two were pretty interchangeable for a spell yesterday on Twitter as the "tributes" poured in.

Much of what was posted were tweets like this one:

RIP Pete Seeger, I'll be playing Night Moves on a loop today in memory.

— Mr. J Roboto (@MrJoebot) January 28, 2014

For the record, plenty of fans got it right, including dozens of musicians who used Twitter to pay tribute to the music icon. As we reported here, "tweets were posted by kd lang -- who thanked Seeger and wished him a "swift rebirth," as well as Bruce Springsteen, Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello, Public Enemy's Chuck D, and Billy Bragg. Even President Barack Obama took time away from preparing for his State of the Union address to post a tweet.

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