Don't know if any of you remember Peter, Paul and Mary. Just saw on Yahoo that Mary Travers passed away, she was 72 years old. She had a beautiful voice and I still have a couple of their vinyl LPs.
Don't know if any of you remember Peter, Paul and Mary. Just saw on Yahoo that Mary Travers passed away, she was 72 years old. She had a beautiful voice and I still have a couple of their vinyl LPs.
OMG - we sure are losing a lot of very talented people this week. I loved Peter, Paul, and Mary in the '60's. I believe they were one of the first groups to record a Bob Dylan song. Their version of 'Blowin' In the Wind" is still probably my favorite of all their songs. Mary did, indeed, have a beautiful voice. May she RIP.
"People don't run out of dreams: People just run out of time ..."
Glenn Frey 11/06/1948 - 01/18/2016
Mary's lovely voice added so much to the harmonies of Peter, Paul and Mary. She will be sorely missed.
Oh my,
I had not heard. I grew up in the 50's and 60's to PP&M. In the mid 60's, PP&M were in the middle of the protest movement. They were of the last of the Folkies with CSN&Y sort of marking the transition between Folk groups and the burgeoning Singer/Songwriter breed.
"Blowin' In The Wind", "If I Had a Hammer", "Puff the Magic Dragon". Such harmony.
Yes, Mary will certainly be missed by ME for sure!
MikeA
Awe, Mary Travers was a wonderful entertainer. She not only was an important fixture in my youth, she was also in my daughters. Peter, Paul and Mommy was a favorite children's album in my home. She will be dearly missed.
One of our radio stations was playing "Leavin' on a Jet Plane" this a.m. (and trying to figure out who wrote it, what a bunch of dolts...sorry, it's JOHN DENVER, hello, I should have called them...) but I didn't hear the reason they were playing it.
Mary had such a clear and pure voice, just gorgeous. PP&M were an icon of peace and love during a tumultous period of our history. Her music will live on.
You better put it all behind you baby, ‘cause life goes on,You keep carryin’ that anger, it’ll eat you up inside…Heart of the Matter
Remember Puff The Magic Dragon? That may have been the first song I ever heard of PP&M.
~ Cathy ~
And I dream I'm on vacation 'Cause I like the way that sounds,
It's a perfect occupation for me.
I remember when I was 11 years old, in 1963, my friend Peggy and I got into her brother's record collection. It was a Peter, Paul and Mary album, and the song I remember listening to over and over again was "Puff the Magic Dragon". It was my first introduction to folk music, and to this day, I still love that kind of music.
I will certainly miss Mary and her lovely voice. May she rest in peace.
Along with the first guitar I got as a Christmas Present (a Black Silvertone Archtop) my first songbook was that of PP&M. Ironic because back in Jr High (and High School for that matter) my Mother completely disapproved of just about anything that wasn't a Church Hymn. Yet, she would let me get albums and music by Folk Groups such as PP&M, The Womenfolk, Trini Lopez, The Kingston Trio and others such as those.
It irony is that PP&M particularly, disguised in subtle ways, their protest of the War in Viet Nam in folksongs! They were actually very subversive <LOL>. But it wasn't the content of their music I liked, it was both the guitar work and the fantastic three-part harmonies they incorporated into their music.
I still like it. A LOT.
MikeA