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 CMT.com : Noel Paul Stookey : Biography
Stookey has balanced his involvement with the trio, however, as a solo singer-songwriter, record producer and political and spiritual activist.
Stookey's earliest inspiration came from the rock and roll of the 1950s and he played electric guitar with several teenage rock bands.
Stookey didn't collaborate again with Yarrow or Travers until 1978 when the trio reunited for a benefit concert, Survival Sunday, that Yarrow organized and produced at the Hollywood Bowl.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/stookey_noel_paul/bio.jhtml   (633 words)

  
 Noel Paul Stookey - Hugworks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Noel Paul Stookey was born December 30, 1937 and lives in Maine and Massachusetts, when not traveling extensively for recording and concert appearances with "Peter, Paul and Mary".
Noel's sincere commitment to enhance the quality of life of children everywhere and the wealth of his musical talent and experience have blended to make these projects truly special.
Stookey is heavily involved in the research and development of Hugworks' growing Internet presence, in addition to the preparation of new audio and video resources.
www.hugworks.org /nps.html   (190 words)

  
 Noel Paul Stookey: The Train Keeps Movin'
Stookey and his musical partners Peter Yarrow and Mary Travers first burst onto the music scene at the height of the pre-Beatles “folk boom” in 1962 with their self-titled debut album.
I asked Noel Paul Stookey what it was like to be at the top of the pop music world at the age of 25.
Noel Paul Stookey has left his mark as a songwriter, his two best known compositions being quite different from one another.
www.jimnewsom.com /PFW-NoelPaulStookey.html   (989 words)

  
 Stookey, Noel Paul   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Includes the popular "Wedding Song" that Stookey gave the royalty rights away because he felt that the inspiration had totally come from God.
Caused some initial controversy because the original cover depicted Noel dancing with a partner in a bar where patrons could be seen drinking and smoking.
Noel was/is the Paul in Peter, Paul and Mary, one of the most popular folk groups of the 60's.
www.one-way.org /jesusmusic/stookey.htm   (208 words)

  
 noel paul stookey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Better known to his friends as Noel (or even ‘Stook" if you’re a highschool chum), he is married since 1963 to the NMH Chaplain and sings at many of the school services.
His wife Elizabeth graduated Harvard Divinity School in the spring of 1997 and was selected almost immediately by the northwestern Massachusetts prep school to be the first woman chaplain in the history of the institution.
After creating "The Wedding Song," for example, Stookey assigned the publishing rights from the song to The Public Domain Foundation, guided by his daughter Elizabeth Stookey Sunde, which has donated nearly 2 million dollars to charities in countries around the world.
www.peterpaulmary.com /people/nps.htm   (739 words)

  
 There is Love
Stookey's range of themes has been characteristically wide, spanning a spectrum from, "I Dig Rock And Roll Music," his 60's satire on pop trendiness, to one of the best loved solo records, "The Wedding Song," which reached the top 30's of the pop charts in the early 70's.
Noel is currently working with the Celebration Shop folks on other songs for a new release.
Noel Paul enjoys the balanced schedule he works to maintain between his private life, his solo performances and concerts with Peter and Mary.
www.channel2.org /thereislove/npsbio.html   (764 words)

  
 Noel Paul Stookey, MP3 Music Download at eMusic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
One of the few commercially successful folk acts, the trio recorded eight million selling albums including their self-titled debut album, which reached the top of the charts and remained in the top twenty for two years.
Stookey's debut solo album, "Paul And...," included "The Wedding Song (There Is Love)" and was the most successful of the solo efforts.
Stookey's song, "El Salvador," inspired by a trio tour of Central America, was released as a single in 1985.
www.emusic.com /artist/11588/11588862.html   (665 words)

  
 2001 Concert
Although the audience witnessed the performances of Noel Paul Stookey of Peter,Paul and Mary on stage with another seminal artist in folk/folk rock music, Eric Andersen, this was a concert that was supposedly cancelled 3 days before the performance.
Noel Stookey was introduced and was greeted with a warm and familiar welcome as being one third of the popular trio, Peter Paul and Mary in addition to a solo performer of high standing.
Noel was accompanied by bassist Dick Kniss who has worked with Peter, Paul and Mary for many years, in addition to renowned artists such as John Denver and Herbie Hancock.
www.onourwaylc.org /concert2001.htm   (505 words)

  
 25th Anniversary Tour Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Most fans of Peter, Paul and Mary know Noel Stookey as the wacky cutup of the group, the showman whose humour, mellow baritone and hot guitar licks mean so much to the trio's ability to captivate and involve an audience.
When he arrived in Greenwich Village in the late 1950's, Noel was a rock musician grown tired of the midwest and infatuated with folk sound and the folk scene.
Performers such as Carly Simon, Woody Allen, Peter Yarrow, Noel Stookey, Bill Cosby, John Denver and Bob Dylan were already part of the Greenwich explosion when high-schooler Mary Travers began hanging around coffeehouses for the singalongs.
www.peterpaulmary.net /history/tb25.htm   (3057 words)

  
 Stellarly Stookey
Noel Paul Stookey, a member of the singing group Peter, Paul and Mary, discusses his busy year at his home in Blue Hill.
Noel Paul Stookey greeted us at his South Blue Hill home Dec. 30 with a big, shy, boyish smile.
Noel Paul Stookey, a member of the trio Peter, Paul and Mary, shows off his 12-string guitar custom-made by a Maine artisan.
homes.mainetoday.com /moving/retiring/lifestyle/040125stookey.shtml   (1371 words)

  
 the wedding song noel stookey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Noel Paul Stookey Paul And Warner Bros. 1971 Includes the popular "Wedding Song" that Stookey gave the royalty rights away because he felt that...
Noel Paul Stookey-the tall middleman of Peter, Paul and Mary posts anecdotes, his solo tour dates, discography and offers unpredictable excursions...
The Wedding Song by Noel Paul Stookey You may have heard this song before (that's a bit of an understatement!).
thetopweddingsonginformation.com /20/the-wedding-song-noel-stookey.html   (233 words)

  
 27 Years After Inaugurating The Grand, Folksinger Noel Paul Stookey Will Play Fund-raiser
Noel Paul Stookey at The Grand in Ellsworth.
But the Stookeys are not severing their ties with the area and even plan on returning—sooner than later, Noel Stookey hopes.
Tickets are $25 for the concert and $25 for the reception afterwards.
ellsworthamerican.com /archive/news2002/07-18-02/ea_news5_07-18-02.html   (767 words)

  
 the wedding song by noel paul stookey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Noel Paul Stookey-the tall middleman of Peter, Paul and Mary posts anecdotes, his solo tour dates, discography and offers unpredictable excursions into cyberspace.
Albums released by Noel Paul Stookey   Paul and (released 1971) Gabriel's Mother's Hiway Ballad #16 Blues Been On The Road Too Long Hey Sad Sack Wedding Song (There Is Love) Meanings Will Change Give A Damn...
In 1971, Noel Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary created a foundation to receive and distribute the royalties of...
www.weddingsaurus.com /articles/the-wedding-song-by-noel-paul-stookey.html   (262 words)

  
 Public Domain Foundation, Inc
In 1971, Noel Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary created a foundation to receive and distribute the royalties of the 'Wedding Song' to charity.
Following the succession of Noel's daughter, Elizabeth Stookey Sunde, to the position of Executive Director in 1997, the father/daughter team has reshaped the foundation mission and expanded Public Domain's family of collaborating songwriters.
They are also working closely with a small number of highly innovative nonprofits and are engaged in a comprehensive strategy to license the 'Wedding Song' and other donated compositions in a variety of creative ways.
www.pdfoundation.org   (335 words)

  
 WKSU Hour Two: Noel Paul Stookey, Peter Paul & Mary - Christmas Dinner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
On the show Noel Paul tells us how he came to write Christmas Dinner almost forty years ago.
Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey & Mary Travers make up perhaps the most famous folk group of all time.
Noel Paul has been praised for his delicate and beautiful guitar work in the trio, as well as his resonant baritone.
www.wksu.org /ornaments/ppmary.html   (127 words)

  
 Peter, Paul & Mary
Peter Yarrow, Paul [Noel] Stookey and Mary Travers.
Noel moved to New York City at the age of 20 to be a photographer.
"Those were exciting times," Noel said, but as he tells his personal story, those times would lead to an extraordinary change in his life.
folkmusicarchives.org /ppm.htm   (609 words)

  
 Tower Records - Virtual Party - Noel Paul Stookey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Your host is Noel Paul Stookey, whose talents as a singer, songwriter, musician, and stand-up comedian are showcased for your entertainment.
Compiled from the last twenty years of Noel's solo segments at live concert performances with Peter, Paul, and Mary, the material delves into topics as diverse as strange toilets and equally odd vegetables.
This is Noel Paul Stookey's party, and he's always been a gracious and accomplished host.
www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=3008172   (600 words)

  
 Neworld History
The eight track recording studio became operational in 1976 and was the home of Noel Paul Stookey’s early solo recording projects as well as those of outside talents, (the most notable being DAVID MALLETT).
In it’s heyday, the ‘henhouse’ was always full of animators from the states and nearby Canada, mimes, artiste’s, carpenters and technicians; all called to the pristine beauty of the coast of Maine and to share Noel’s vision.
Following four years of study at Harvard Divinity School, Noel Paul’s wife Betty was selected in 1997 as the Chaplain for the NORTHFIELD MT HERMON school and Noel and Betty moved to Massachusetts, leading to the sale of the Henhouse to it’s new owner Andrea Hendrix.
www.neworldmultimedia.com /history.htm   (396 words)

  
 Fellow Folks: Peter, Paul and Mary
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Noel Stookey gave me the idea for the "Bear Mountain Song" I wrote it overnight but I wasn't there.
Dylan was sitting in the Gaslight with Noel Stookey who was just about to become Paul of Peter, Paul and Mary.
www.bobdylanroots.com /ppm.html   (1125 words)

  
 The Times of Peter, Paul & Mary
The first of four audio discs begins at the beginning, with the opening track from the trio’s self-titled debut album released in the spring of 1962, Stookey’s “Early in the Morning.” There are eight songs from that epochal release, followed by six each from their two ’63 releases, (Moving) and In the Wind.
Longtime PP&M fans have always enjoyed Stookey’s solo segment during live performances, in which he returns to his days as a standup comic, telling stories drawn from his life experiences that inevitably have the audience doubled over with laughter.
From their earliest days as popstars right up through “these times,” where they are elder spokespersons for folk music and role models for artists as mature entertainers and advocates for a better world, Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers have kept the faith they originally embodied.
www.jimnewsom.com /PFW-PPM2004.html   (866 words)

  
 Peter, Paul and Mary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Noel introduced Peter to actress/singer Mary Travers (24), who lived in New York (her parents were both Greenwich Village writers) though she was born in Louisville, Kentucky.
They agreed to become Peter, Paul and Mary since it sounded catchier than Peter, Noel and Mary (and already had a familiar ring from a folk song lyric that went, “I saw Peter, Paul and Moses playing ring-around-the-roses”).
Paul (who preferred to be known as Noel Stookey when not associated with Peter, Paul and Mary) formed a Christian music group called the Body Works Band.
www.vocalhalloffame.com /Inductees/peter_paul_and_mary.htm   (1106 words)

  
 paul stookey the wedding song   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Rest assured this troubador is acting on His part.
The lyrics of There Is Love (Wedding Song) by Paul Stookey...
...by Noel Paul Stookey Paul and (released 1971) Gabriel's Mother's Hiway Ballad #16 Blues Been On The Road Too Long Hey Sad Sack Wedding...
thetopweddingsonginformation.com /27/paul-stookey-the-wedding-song.html   (254 words)

  
 JS Online: It wasn't always folk for member of '60s trio
One of the tidbits in the box, incidentally, is that Noel Stookey was given the name of Paul by manager Albert Grossman, who liked the flow of "Peter, Paul and Mary."
One of the revelations from the "Carry It On" booklet is that you were once in an R&B group called the Birds of Paradise.
You were also once billed as Noel Stookey the Toilet Man. Sounds like you might have had a very different career.
www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/music/mar04/218296.asp   (574 words)

  
 Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues (manuscript) (Bob Dylan)
NOEL STOOKEY (Peter, Paul and Mary) -- INSPIRATION FOR SONG
...on June 19, 1961, Stookey sat in the Gaslight reading the New York Herald Tribune, which contained an article about a Father's Day boat cruise up the Hudson River to Bear Mountain that had gone awry due to counterfeit tickets and overcrowding.
Stookey showed the story to a recent acquaintance, a 20­year­old singer named Bobby Dylan who had arrived in New York from Minnesota the previous winter.
www.bobdylanroots.com /bear.html   (436 words)

  
 Peter, Paul and Mary --  Encyclopædia Britannica
American folksingers at the forefront of the folk music revival of the 1960s who created a bridge between traditional folk music and later folk rock.
(Peter Yarrow, born 1938; Noel Paul Stookey, born 1937; Mary Travers, born 1937), U.S. vocal and instrumental group and songwriters.
The group was formed in the early 1960s and performed together throughout the decade.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9105689   (946 words)

  
 Noel Paul Stookey : The Wedding Song
It may be the most popular modern wedding song.
I wrote to Noel Paul Stookey of the group Peter, Paul and Mary asking if I could make a midi of his famous song...
Noel says "yes", but please link back to his Public Domain Foundation.
songsofpraise.org /song.php?songid=314   (140 words)

  
 Wedding Song -- Solo work of Noel Stookey
These G chords will match the recorded pitch even though the sheet music shows it in the key of E because the guitar is tuned down one-and-one-half notes.
These chords are not intended to be strummed.
Instead, Noel uses an arpeggio picking pattern to achieve an overlapping downscale run, starting on the second string third fret and ending on the third string open.
members.cox.net /billandleann/noel/nps_wedding.htm   (408 words)

  
 Creative winds blowing at South Church on Saturday night   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
'The answer, my friends...' - Blowin' in to South Church (at right) on March 25 were musician Noel "Paul" Stookey and his wife, Elizabeth Stookey, a minister and chaplain.
service, March 25, South Church hosted Noel Stookey, "Paul" from the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary.
Stookey played music at the service, and Elizabeth Stookey, a minister and chaplain at the Northfield-Mt. Hermon School, spoke to the crowd.
www.andovertownsman.com /news/20000406/AE_001.html   (633 words)

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