{{Short description|American folk singer (1931–2025)}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Tony Saletan | image = | caption = | alt = | birth_name = Anthony David Saletan | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date|1931|6|29}} | birth_place = New York City, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2025|8|26|1931|6|29}} | death_place = Tacoma, Washington, U.S. | origin = | genre = Folk | occupation = <!--see:Template:Infobox_musical_artist#Occupation.-->Musician, singer, song finder, folk dance caller/leader | instrument = Vocals, guitar, banjo, piano, recorder | years_active = 1955–2015 | label = Folk-Legacy Records, Prestige Records | associated_acts = Pete Seeger, Kossoy Sisters, Joe Hickerson, Peggy Seeger, Jackie Washington Landrón, Guy Carawan | website = }}

'''Anthony David Saletan''' (June 29, 1931 – August 26, 2025<ref>{{cite web |title=Tony Saletan, 94, Folk Musician and Producer |url=https://www.wgbhalumni.org/2025/09/04/tony-saletan-94-musician-and-producer/ |website=WGBH Alumni |access-date=27 February 2026 |date=September 4, 2025}}</ref>) was an American folk singer, children's instructional television pioneer, and music educator. Saletan was responsible for the modern rediscovery, in the mid-1950s, of two of the genre's best-known songs, "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" and "Kumbaya". In 1955, he was the first performer to appear on Boston's educational television station, WGBH. In 1969, Saletan was the first musical guest to appear on ''Sesame Street''.

== Background == Born and raised in New York City, Saletan attended the Walden School. For a brief period during his childhood, his piano teacher was a young Leonard Bernstein.<ref name="Lawless1960"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Witemeyer |first1=Barbara |title=Dentist to the Stars (comment, row 5, box 3) |url=https://leonardbernstein.com/memories?page=5 |website=Leonard Bernstein: Memories |publisher=Leonard Bernstein Office |access-date=30 January 2022}}</ref><ref>Burton,Humphrey (1994). Leonard Bernstein. New York: Doubleday, p. 108</ref> While a teen, he was involved in the Henry Wallace presidential campaign of 1948, in which original music in the folk style was important.<ref name="Lawless1960"/> After receiving his undergraduate and master's degrees in music education at Harvard University,<ref name="Lawless1960"/> Saletan settled in the Boston area, where for several years he appeared on educational television (WGBH),<ref name="WGBH2000"/> taught music in the Newton, Massachusetts public schools,<ref name="Lawless1960"/> and gave private guitar lessons. During this time he married and raised a son and a daughter. He also became involved in folk dancing and calling of contra dances.<ref>{{cite web|title=Merry Go Round|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpLI7vkNgdQ|website=YouTube|publisher=dgonz33|accessdate=July 27, 2014}}</ref> Saletan frequently taught at Pinewoods Dance Camp in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Later in life, Saletan moved with his second wife to Tacoma, Washington and raised another daughter. Saletan died from complications of Alzheimer's disease in Tacoma, on August 26, 2025, at the age of 94.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anthony (Tony) Saletan |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/anthony-tony-saletan-obituary?id=59311267 |website=Legacy |access-date=29 August 2025}}</ref>

== Shaker Village Work Camp and the Folk Revival == {{Main|Shaker Village Work Camp}}

Saletan spent the summer of 1953 at Buck’s Rock Work Camp leading the campers in regular folk song sessions.

In 1954, Tony Saletan was preparing to work as folksong leader at the Shaker Village Work Camp. He searched the Widener Library of Harvard University for material to teach the villagers that summer. Out of that research, he adapted the song "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" from the 1867 songbook ''Slave Songs of the United States'' to create the version that is well-known today. "I judged that the tune was very singable, added some harmony (a guitar accompaniment) and thought the one-word chorus would be an easy hit with the teens (it was). But a typical original verse consisted of one line repeated once, and I thought a rhyme would be more interesting to the teenagers at Shaker Village Work Camp, where I introduced it. So I adapted traditional African-American couplets in place of the original verses."<ref name="Saletan2000"/> Saletan's adaptation was included in the Village's 1954 songbook, ''Songs of Work.''<ref name="SVWC1954"/>

During the summer of 1954, Saletan attended a performance by Pete Seeger, where Seeger invited audience members to come on stage and teach him a song. Saletan volunteered, borrowed Seeger's banjo, and sang "Michael Row the Boat Ashore," as he had recently reconstructed it. Seeger said he liked the song and asked to learn it.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wilhelm |first1=Dorothy |title=Tony Saletan |url=https://pod.co/swimming-upstream-radio-show?search=saletan |website=Swimming Upstream Radio Show |publisher=Its Never Too Late |access-date=29 November 2024 |date=September 17, 2017}}</ref> Seeger was soon singing it with The Weavers,<ref name="Seeger2010"/><ref name="Hays1960"/><ref name="AFC1968"/> one of the most important vocal groups leading the American folk music revival of the 1950s to mid-1960s.<ref name="Eyerman1996"/> Saletan shared a 1958 copyright in his adaptation with the members of the Weavers.<ref>{{cite book |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries |date=1967 |publisher=U.S. Library of Congress, Copyright Office |location=Washington, D.C. |page=1614 |edition=Third Series}}</ref> A single based on Saletan's version was released in 1960 by the American folk quintet the Highwaymen under the abbreviated title, "Michael",<ref name="Whitburn1994"/> and reached number one on the U.S. and British hit parades in September 1961.<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p24454/biography|pure_url=yes}} "The Highwaymen: Biography"], AllMusic.</ref>

Joe Hickerson, co-founder of the Folksmiths, credits Saletan for introducing him to the song "Kumbaya" in 1957 (Saletan had learned it from Lynn Rohrbough, co-proprietor with his wife Katherine of the camp songbook publisher Cooperative Recreation Service).<ref name="Weiss2006"/><ref name="Stern2009"/><ref name="Amy1957"/> The first LP recording of "Kumbaya" was released in 1958 by the Folksmiths.<ref name="Folksmiths1958"/> Folksinger Peggy Seeger was also taught several songs by Saletan, which she later recorded.<ref name="Seeger2009"/>

== Television and recording career == Saletan was the first person to appear on WGBH, Channel 2, when Boston's public educational television station made its on-air debut on May 2, 1955.<ref name="wgbh-timeline">{{cite web|title=WGBH Timeline (1946-1978)|url=https://wgbhalumni.org/2007/01/01/wgbh-timeline-1946-1978/|publisher=WGBH Educational Foundation|date=January 1, 2007|accessdate=July 28, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kamp |first1=David |title=Sunny Days: The Children's Television Revolution that Changed America |date=2020 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |page=222}}</ref> He sang the theme song for ''Come and See'', a program aimed at preschoolers.<ref>{{cite web |last1=McGlinchey |first1=Nina |title=Tony Saletan at WGBH 60-Year Reunion |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXPP0V1hmZM |website=YouTube|date=2 May 2015|accessdate=28 July 2018}}</ref> In those years, he also presented live children's concerts, organized by his manager, Manuel ("Manny") Greenhill (1916–1996).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cohen |first1=Ronald |title=Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970 |date=2002 |publisher=University of Massachusetts Press |location=Amherst |isbn=9781558493469 |page=148}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Manuel A. Greenhill; Folk Singers' Manager |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-04-17-mn-59588-story.html |access-date=27 August 2023 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=April 17, 1996}}</ref> Following a 1959-1960 world tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cohen |first1=Ronald |title=Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970 |date=2002 |publisher=University of Massachusetts Press |location=Amherst |isbn=9781558493469 |page=141}}</ref><ref name="Lawless1960"/><ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Barretta |editor-first1=Scott |title=The Conscience of the Folk Revival: The Writings of Israel "Izzy" Young |date=2013 |publisher=Scarecrow Press, Rowman & Littlefield |pages=17, 47}}</ref> Saletan released the album ''I'm a Stranger Here'' on Prestige Records (1962).<ref>[https://www.jazzdisco.org/prestige-records/catalog-international-13000-25000-folklore-14000-lively-arts-30000-irish-35000-near-east-45000-series Jazz Discography Project]</ref> On his return from abroad, he created ''Sing, Children, Sing'' for national distribution on educational television, based on an earlier WGBH project, ''Music Grade II''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Saletan |first1=Tony |title=From Tony Saletan (2000) |url=https://wgbhalumni.org/profiles/s/saletan-tony/ |website=WGBH: Profiles |date=January 2000 |publisher=WGBH Alumni |accessdate=30 July 2018}}</ref> In the 1960s, Saletan also hosted several episodes of ''What's New'', broadcast "field trips" to historic locations with associated songs.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Saletan |first1=Tony |title=From Tony Saletan (2000) |url=https://wgbhalumni.org/profiles/s/saletan-tony/ |website=WGBH: Profiles |date=January 2000 |publisher=WGBH Alumni |accessdate=30 July 2018}}</ref>

In 1964, a year after their marriage, Saletan and Irene Kossoy (formerly and subsequently of the Kossoy Sisters) joined with Jackie Washington Landrón to form the Boston Folk Trio,<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Barretta |editor-first1=Scott |title=The Conscience of the Folk Revival: The Writings of Israel "Izzy" Young |date=2013 |publisher=Scarecrow Press, Rowman & Littlefield |pages=86, 101}}</ref> which presented school concerts through the non-profit Young Audiences Arts for Learning, which was later directed by John Langstaff. In the mid-1960s, the Saletans similarly performed school concerts in the New York City area along with Happy Traum. The couple also performed as Tony and Irene Saletan. In 1970, they released an album on Folk-Legacy Records, ''Tony and Irene Saletan: Folk Songs & Ballads''.<ref>{{cite web |first2=Tony |last2=Saletan |first1=Irene |last1=Saletan |title=Folk Songs & Ballads |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/folksongs-ballads-mw0002060904 |website=AllMusic |publisher=RhythmOne Group |accessdate=10 November 2019}}</ref> They also made a 7" vinyl recording of four songs for the Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company, titled ''The Ballad of Boston and Other New England Folk Tunes''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Saletan |first1=Tony |last2=Saletan (Kossoy) |first2=Irene |title=The Ballad of Boston |url=https://www.discogs.com/Tony-And-Irene-Saletan-The-Ballad-Of-Boston-And-Other-New-England-Folk-Tunes/release/3773023 |website=Discogs |date=10 June 2018 |accessdate=10 November 2019}}</ref> Tony and Irene performed together at the Fox Hollow Folk Festival in 1971,<ref>{{cite web|title=Friend to the Working Man|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgszIeVuaqI|website=YouTube|publisher=David Usher|accessdate=July 27, 2014}}</ref> as well as with Irene's sister, Ellen, and Ellen's then husband, Robin Christenson.<ref>{{cite web|title=Belle Starr|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXvJjoYPGM8|website=YouTube|publisher=David Usher|accessdate=July 27, 2014}}</ref> None of Saletan's recordings include either "Michael" or "Kumbaya," but he can be heard singing and discussing both during a 2017 podcast interview.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wilhelm |first1=Dorothy |title=Tony Saletan |url=https://pod.co/swimming-upstream-radio-show?search=saletan |website=Swimming Upstream Radio Show |publisher=Its Never Too Late |access-date=29 November 2024 |date=September 17, 2017}}</ref>

On December 16, 1969, Saletan made a guest appearance during the first season (episode 27) of ''Sesame Street'', the iconic children's television program. In the first of four segments on which he appeared, Saletan leads the show's children and adult regulars (including Big Bird and Oscar) in an adaptation of the traditional workers' alphabet song, "So Merry, So Merry Are We", as well as a traditional counting song, "Ten Little Angels".<ref>{{cite web|title=Classic Sesame Street - Tony Saletan|website=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibtGe0RSZGAHe |date=9 March 2018|publisher=BigMuppetFan51|accessdate=July 28, 2018}}</ref> In the second, he sings and takes ideas from the children to invent new verses for "I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground", and then plays "Cripple Creek" on banjo as Gordon demonstrates the limberjack.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sesame Street - Tony Saletan sings "I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground" (1969)|website=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MZIFFIt9jE |date=5 March 2023|publisher=I'mSSfan2008|accessdate=July 28, 2023}}</ref> In the third segment, he sings Woody Guthrie's "Pick it Up" and then "Mi Chacra" ("my farm"), teaching animal names in Spanish. (This was the first time Sesame Street featured content in Spanish.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sesame Street Show 27 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSyIx2B9288 |website=YouTube |access-date=3 August 2025 |date=February 6, 2024}}</ref>) Saletan concludes the show with Guthrie's "Gonna Take Everybody (All Work Together)".

In the early 1970s, Tony Saletan hosted three public television series for children, produced by Western Instructional Television (Hollywood, California): ''The Song Bag'', ''Let's All Sing with Tony Saletan'', and ''Singing Down the Road''.<ref name="WGBH2000"/> Two record albums were issued from these shows<ref name="Saletan1976"/> mostly drawn from American folksongs, including those discovered and developed for teaching young Shaker Villagers.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Saletan |first1=Tony |title=From Tony Saletan (2000) |url=https://wgbhalumni.org/profiles/s/saletan-tony/ |website=WGBH: Profiles |date=January 2000 |publisher=WGBH Alumni |accessdate=30 July 2018}}</ref> The first album to emerge from the WIT shows, ''Song Bag with Tony Saletan'', likewise had an associated teacher's guide and songbook.<ref name="Saletan1974"/> Saletan also recorded ''Songs and Sounds of the Sea'' (National Geographic Society 1973),<ref>{{cite web |last1=Zierke |first1=Reinhard |title=Louis Killen/Records/Songs & Sounds of the Sea |url=https://mainlynorfolk.info/louis.killen/records/songsandsoundsofthesea.html |website=Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music |accessdate=10 November 2019}}</ref> ''Revolutionary Tea'' (with the Yankee Tunesmiths, Old North Bridge Records 1975),<ref>{{cite web |last1=Saletan |first1=Tony |title=Revolutionary Tea |url=https://www.discogs.com/Tony-Saletan-and-The-Yankee-Tunesmiths-Revolutionary-Tea/release/14113579 |website=Discogs |date=1975 |accessdate=10 November 2019}}</ref> and ''George & Ruth'' (songs of the Spanish Civil War, Educational Alternatives 2004).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Saletan |first1=Tony |last2=Miskoe |first2=Sylvia |last3=Lynn-Watt |first3=Dan |last4=Lynn-Watt |first4=Molly |title=George & Ruth: Songs and Letters of the Spanish Civil War |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/george-ruth-songs-and-letters-of-the-spanish-civil-war-mw0000479919 |website=AllMusic |publisher=AllRhythm Group |accessdate=10 November 2019}}</ref>

== Discography == * ''I'm a Stranger Here'' (Prestige International 13036, 1962) * ''Folksongs & Ballads'' (with Irene Saletan) (Folk Legacy FSI-37, 1970; available from Smithsonian Folkways) Many cuts available on YouTube * ''Songs and Sounds of the Sea'' (National Geographic Society 705, 1973) * ''Song Bag with Tony Saletan'' (Western ITV Recordings WV-1103, 1974) * ''Revolutionary Tea'' (Old North Bridge Recordings, 1975) * ''Let's All Sing with Tony Saletan'' (Western ITV Recordings WV-1102, 1976) Episode available for viewing on YouTube * ''George & Ruth: Songs & Letters of the Spanish Civil War'' (2004, CD Baby 2006) (full audio recording available on YouTube)

== See also == * Shaker Village Work Group

== Notes == {{Reflist|3|refs= <ref name="Lawless1960">Lawless 1960.</ref> <ref name="Seeger2010">Seeger 2010.</ref> <ref name="Saletan2000">Saletan 2000.</ref> <ref name="SVWC1954">Shaker Village Work Camp 1954.</ref> <ref name="Seeger2009">Seeger 2009.</ref> <ref name="Saletan1974">Saletan 1974.</ref> <ref name="Saletan1976">Saletan 1976.</ref> <ref name="Hays1960">Hays 1960, pp. 40–41.</ref> <ref name="AFC1968">American Folklife Center 1968.</ref> <ref name="Weiss2006">Weiss 2006.</ref> <ref name="Stern2009">Stern 2009.</ref> <ref name="Amy1957">Amy 1957.</ref> <ref name="Folksmiths1958">Folksmiths 1958. Liner notes.</ref> <ref name="Eyerman1996">Eyerman 1996.</ref> <ref name="Whitburn1994">Whitburn 1994.</ref> <ref name="WGBH2000">Tony Saletan. WGBH Alumni 2000.</ref> }}

== References == * {{Cite journal | last = Amy | first = Ernest F. | year = 1957 | title = Cooperative Recreation Service: A unique project | journal = Midwest Folklore | volume = 7 | issue = 4, Winter | pages = 202–206 | issn = 0737-7037 | oclc = 51288821 | jstor = 4317679 | ref = refAmy1957}} * {{Cite journal | last1 = Eyerman | first1 = Ron | last2 = Barretta | first2 = Scott | year = 1996 | title = From the 30s to the 60s: The folk music revival in the United States | journal = Theory and Society | volume = 25 | issue = 4 | pages = 501–543 | issn = 0304-2421 | doi = 10.1007/BF00160675 | s2cid = 142024250 | ref = refEyerman1996}} * {{Cite book | last1 = Hays| first1 = Lee | last2 = Gilbert | first2 = Ronnie | last3 = Hellerman | first3 = Fred | last4 = Darling | first4 = Erik | last5 = De Cormier | first5 = Robert (arranger) | title = The Weavers' Song Book | publisher = Harper & Row | year = 1960 | location = NY | oclc = 16690787 | isbn = 978-0-06-007231-5 | ref = refHays1960}} — Includes "Michael Row the Boat Ashore." "Paul Campbell" was a pseudonym adopted from 1950 to 1953 for Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman and Peter Seeger ([http://www.lazyka.com/linernotes/personel/CampbellPaul.htm source] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324184531/http://www.lazyka.com/linernotes/personel/CampbellPaul.htm |date=2012-03-24 }}). * {{Cite book | last = Lawless| first = Ray M. | title = Folksingers and Folksongs in America | publisher = Duell, Sloan & Pearce | year = 1960 | location = NY | oclc = | isbn = | ref = refLawless1960}} — Includes short biographies of Saletan (pp.&nbsp;204–05) and other folksingers, including reference in Pete Seeger bio to 1948 Wallace campaign (p.&nbsp;211). * {{Cite book | last1 = Saletan | first1 = Tony | last2 = McIntyre | first2 = Bruce | title = The Song Bag: Teacher's Manual | publisher = Western Instructional Television | year = 1974 | location = Los Angeles, CA | oclc = 13326352 | isbn = | ref = refSaletan1974}} — With an associated phonograph album ({{OCLC|12897503}}) or cassette tape ({{OCLC|26290685}}). * {{Cite book | last = Saletan | first = Tony | title = Let's All Sing | publisher = Western Records | year = 1976 | location = Los Angeles, CA | url = http://wit.itmonline.com/Series/Lets%20All%20Sing.htm | oclc = 7904988 | ref = refSaletan1976}} — Phonograph album. * {{Cite book |contributor-last = Seeger |contributor-first = Pete |contributor-link = Pete Seeger |last1 = Dunaway |first1 = David King |author-link = David King Dunaway |last2 = Beer |first2 = Molly |contribution=Foreword | title = Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2010 | location = New York | page = x | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=epHUZ7YOye4C&pg=PR10 | oclc = 432444012 | isbn = 978-0-19-537834-4 | ref = refSeeger2010}} :– Pete Seeger attributes the rediscovery and modern adaptation of the song "Michael Row Your Boat Ashore" to Saletan. Seeger offered the same attribution (calling the song "Michael, Row The Boat Ashore") in his paperback songbook: :* {{cite book |last1=Seeger |first1=Pete |title=American Favorite Ballads |url=https://archive.org/details/americanfavorite00seeg |url-access=registration |editor-first=Irwin |editor-last=Silber |editor-first2=Ethel |editor-last2=Raim |date=1961 |publisher=Oak Publications |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/americanfavorite00seeg/page/75 75] |isbn=9780825600289 |oclc=894933338}} * {{Cite book | author = Shaker Village Work Camp | title = Songs of Work | publisher = Shaker Village Work Camp | year = 1954 | location = Pittsfield, MA | oclc = 82064467 | ref = refSVWC1954}} — Book of musical scores, compiled by Tony Saletan. Includes the song ''Michael Row the Boat Ashore.'' * {{Cite book | last = Whitburn | first = Joel | author-link = Joel Whitburn | title = Top Pop Singles 1955–1993 | publisher = Record Research Inc | year = 1994 | location = Menomonee Falls, WI | page = [https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstop0000whit/page/274 274] | oclc = 31423892 | isbn = 978-0-89820-104-8 | ref = refWhitburn1994 | url = https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstop0000whit/page/274 }} * {{anchor|refFolksmiths1958}}Folksmiths. (1958). ''We've Got Some Singing To Do.'' New York: Folkways Records (F-2407). {{OCLC|14186458}}. — 33 rpm phonograph album. Track 12 is ''Kum Bah Yah.'' The [http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/folkways/FW02407.pdf liner notes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192403/http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/folkways/FW02407.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }} credit Tony Saletan for teaching the Folksmiths several songs. Re-released on audio CD as: ''We've Got Some Singing to Do: The Folksmiths Travelling Folk Workshop.'' Washington, DC: Smithsonian Folkways ([http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=286 FW02407]). {{OCLC|47801193}}. * {{Cite web | url = https://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/BibMichael.html | author = American Folklife Center | author-link = American Folklife Center | title = A brief list of material relating to 'Michael Row the Boat Ashore' | date = 20 June 1968 | work = Archive of Folk Culture | accessdate = 1 September 2010 | ref = refAFC1968}} * {{Cite web | url = https://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/usa/michaelr.htm | title = Michael Row Your Boat Ashore (lyrics) | author = Saletan, Tony | year = 2000 | work = Robokopp database of choral music | accessdate = 30 August 2010 | ref = refSaletan2000}} — A quote from Saletan on the origins of the song, including his work at the Shaker Village Work Camp. The text is from a personal email by Saletan to the author of the webpage, [http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/ Richard Kopp]. * {{Cite news | last = Stern | first = Gary | title = 'Kumbaya, My Lord:' Why we sing it; why we hate it | newspaper = The Journal News | location = White Plains, NY | oclc = 40979145 | url = http://www.lohud.com/article/20090627/COLUMNIST/906270343/-Kumbaya-My-Lord-Why-we-sing-it-why-we-hate-it- | date = 27 June 2009 | accessdate = 1 September 2010 | ref = refStern2009}} * {{Cite web | url = http://www.peggyseeger.com/listen-buy/heading-for-home/heading-for-home-notes | title = Heading for Home (album notes) | author = Seeger, Peggy | author-link = Peggy Seeger | year = 2009 | work = Peggy Seeger website | accessdate = 30 August 2010 | ref = refSeeger2009}} — Album was released 2003 on Appleseed Records. Notes refer to Tony Saletan and the Shaker Village Work Camp of 1954. * {{Cite episode | title = Shaker Village Work Group (episode) | url = https://www.wgbhalumni.org/2007/01/01/tony-saletans-whats-new-specials-1960s/ | series = Tony Saletan's What's New (1960s) | airdate = 1966 | credits = Narrator: Tony Saletan | network = National Educational Television | ref = refNET1966}} — Saletan explains the Work Group's activities and shows a music and dance performance by the teenagers ([http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/shakerhistory3.htm more information]). This video is included on the DVD "[https://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/shakermusic2.htm The Shakers On Television]." * {{Cite web | url = https://www.wgbhalumni.org/profiles/s/saletan-tony/ | title = Tony Saletan | year = 2000 | work = WGBH Alumni website | accessdate = 3 May 2020 | ref = refWGBH2000}}

== External links == *{{IMDb name| 13225486}} * [https://wgbhalumni.org/profiles/s/saletan-tony/ WGBH Alumni] * [https://www.allmusic.com/album/folksongs-ballads-mw0002060904 Folksongs & Ballads] * {{discogs artist|Tony Saletan}}

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