Peter, Paul and Mary
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The brainchild of Bob Dylan's manager Albert Grossman, Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey and Mary Travers were plucked from New York City's Greenwich Village coffee house scene with the intention of creating a polished-up, pop friendly group to take the folk music craze of the early 1960s into the charts. And they did exactly that, their gently acoustic harmonies scoring US Top 10 hits with Puff (The Magic Dragon), I Dig Rock & Roll and the Bob Dylan covers Blowin' In The Wind and Don't Think Twice, It's Alright. They spent seven weeks at Number 1 with their debut album Peter, Paul And Mary (1962), played at the March on Washington before Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech and became one of the biggest folk groups of the era with their million-selling Number 1 single Leaving On A Jet Plane, written by John Denver. After splitting in 1970 to pursue solo careers, the trio reformed in 1978 and continued until 2009 when Mary Travers died from leukaemia.
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Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- Leaving on a Jet Plane
- Blowin' in the Wind
- I Dig Rock and Roll Music
- If I Had a Hammer
- Day Is Done
- Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
- For Lovin' Me
- Lemon Tree
- Puff, the Magic Dragon
- Early in the Morning
- This Train
- Very Last Day
- 500 Miles
- A' Soalin'
- Early Mornin' Rain
- Flora
- This Land Is Your Land
- I Dig Rock and Roll Music
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- River of Jordan
- Rocky Road
- Settle Down (Goin' Down That Highway)
- Some Walls
- Sometime Lovin'
