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  2. Peter, Paul and Mary - Wikipedia

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    Peter, Paul and Mary were an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961 during the American folk music revival phenomenon. The trio consisted of Peter Yarrow (guitar, tenor vocals), Paul Stookey (guitar, baritone vocals), and Mary Travers (contralto vocals). [1] The group's repertoire included songs written by Yarrow and Stookey, early ...

  3. Blowin' in the Wind - Wikipedia

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    Peter, Paul and Mary's version of the song also spent five weeks atop the easy listening chart. The critic Andy Gill wrote, "Blowin' in the Wind" marked a huge jump in Dylan's songwriting. Prior to this, efforts like "The Ballad of Donald White" and "The Death of Emmett Till" had been fairly simplistic bouts of reportage songwriting.

  4. Light One Candle - Wikipedia

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    Label. Gold Castle. Songwriter (s) Peter Yarrow. "Light One Candle" is a song by the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary. It is a popular Hanukkah song. Peter, Paul, and Mary performed the song in concerts starting in 1982, before recording it for their 1986 studio album No Easy Walk to Freedom. The lyrics commemorate the war of national liberation ...

  5. Where Have All the Flowers Gone? - Wikipedia

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    The Landsmen released the song in 1961 as a 45 rpm single on Arvee. [17] Peter, Paul and Mary included the song on their eponymous debut album (which spent five weeks as the No. 1 album in the United States) in 1962. Marlene Dietrich performed the song in English, French, and German.

  6. Leaving on a Jet Plane - Wikipedia

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    It was Peter, Paul and Mary's biggest (and final) hit, becoming their only No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. It was the penultimate #1 single of the 1960s, and the song also spent three weeks atop the easy listening chart [10] and was used in commercials for United Airlines in the late 1960s and early

  7. Puff, the Magic Dragon - Wikipedia

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    Puff, the Magic Dragon. " Puff, the Magic Dragon " (or just " Puff ") is a song written by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary from a poem by Leonard Lipton. It was made popular by Peter, Paul and Mary in a 1962 recording released in January 1963. Lipton wrote a poem about a dragon in 1959, [1] and, when Yarrow found it, he wrote the lyrics to ...

  8. If I Had a Hammer - Wikipedia

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    It was a #10 hit for Peter, Paul and Mary in 1962 and then went to #3 a year later when recorded by Trini Lopez in 1963. The Weavers released the song under the title "The Hammer Song" as a 78 rpm single in March 1950 on Hootenanny Records, 101-A, backed with "Banks of Marble".

  9. Go Tell It on the Mountain (song) - Wikipedia

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    In 1963, the musical team Peter, Paul and Mary, along with their musical director Milt Okun, adapted and rewrote "Go Tell It on the Mountain" as "Tell It on the Mountain", their lyrics referring specifically to Exodus and using the phrase "Let my people go", but referring implicitly to the civil rights struggle of the early 1960s. This version ...