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  Peter Paul & Mary Tickets - Peter Paul & Mary Concert Tickets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Peter Paul & Mary were part of the 1960s folk revival, but they can trace their roots and inspiration back to music and events from the late '40s, and the founding of the Weavers.
Paul Stookey, born Noel Paul Stookey, had become a huge fan of jazz and what was later called R&B in the mid- to late '40s, took up guitar, and had formed his first band, the Birds of Paradise, in high school during the early '50s.
Peter Paul & Mary were the only folk-revival group to survive the British Invasion and the ensuing folk-rock boom with their audience and visibility largely intact.
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 Peter, Paul and Mary
Peter Yarrow, who had come to Greenwich Village with a psychology degree from Cornell, recalls that, "The Village in the early 1960s was a crucible of creativity.
Peter was helping to organize Survival Sunday, an anti-nuclear benefit at the Hollywood Bowl, and he asked Paul and Mary to join him on stage.
Peter is a patient and meticulous worker, especially when it comes to sound quality, and that commitment to excellence is what yields the best possible environment in which to be creative.
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 Peter, Paul & Mary
It was in 1961 when Peter, Paul and Mary stood on stage in front of the infamous brick wall at The Bitter End coffee house on Bleeker Street in Greenwich Village.
Peter Yarrow, Paul [Noel] Stookey and Mary Travers.
Peter's personal story, recollections of Peter, Paul and Mary performing at the Bitter End in 1961 and his musical and political activism are very compelling.
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 CNN - Peter, Paul and Mary still hammering out love between brothers and their sisters - July 30, 1999
Noel "Paul" Stookey is busy tuning his guitar, and Mary Travers is singing the praises of the sushi restaurant she visited the night before.
The other CD is "Peter, Paul and Mary: Songs of Conscience and Concern: A Retrospective Collection." Released in March, it features music the artists say they've found inspiring.
Their 1962 debut album "Peter, Paul and Mary" became an instant classic and the trio produced hit after hit in the '60s.
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 Peter, Paul & Mary News
Peter, Paul and Mary founder speaks against bullying The Daily News Journal Peter Yarrow of the renowned folk group known as Peter, Paul and Mary will deliver the keynote address during Fit for the Future, a...
When Peter, Paul and Mary hit the airwaves in the early '60s with their folksy tune about hammering in the morning and hammering in the evening, they weren't singing about new-house construction in Salem.
Peter, Paul and Mary singer Mary Travers met her Michigan bone marrow donor, a year after the transplant that saved her from dying of leukemia.
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 Peter, Paul and Mary (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-3.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Peter, Paul and Mary, having just completed their nation-wide tour in celebration of their 17th album, "PP M and: Lifelines," are observing 35 years of creating popular music together.
Mary, who was caught in pouring rain enroute from her Conneticut home to her agent's New York office for the interview, graciously took time to talk about the tour, the album and assorted topics dealing with the group and their music.
When I mentioned to Mary that "Blowing in the Wind" was the first anti-war song to hit the pop charts, she was quick to point out that this was not the case.
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 Amazon.ca: Peter, Paul & Mary: Ten Years Together: Music: Paul & Mary Peter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mary Travers is limited to just two lead vocals, but both are outstanding: the lyric, whistful "Leaving on a Jet Plane," and the achingly beautiful "500 Miles" (later covered splendidly by Bobby Bare).
Peter Yarrow's songs are not as strong, with the exception of "For Lovin' Me" and that most fabulous stirring ballad about "Stewball," the racehorse worthy of a king.
Peter, Paul, and Mary were giants in the folk music field in the 1960's with their beautiful harmonies and music.
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 USATODAY.com - Peter, Paul and Mary member undergoing chemotherapy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
NEW YORK (AP) — Mary Travers, 67, of Peter, Paul and Mary is undergoing chemotherapy for a form of leukemia, but a full remission is expected within a few months, her publicist, Ken Sunshine, said Tuesday.
"Mary looks forward to touring again with the trio soon, and is grateful for the well wishes that have come to her from all over the world," the statement said.
Last February, Peter, Paul and Mary, known for songs such as Blowin' in the Wind and Puff, The Magic Dragon, released Carry It On, a five-disc box set of their greatest hits.
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 peter, paul & mary : bio
Peter, Paul and Mary's benefit for the UFW organizing campaign in Santa Cruz on March 19, 1998 marked the 30th anniversary of the first benefit the Trio performed for Cesar Chavez and the UFW at Carnegie Hall in New York in 1968.
As with LifeLines and Peter, Paul and Mommy, Too, Peter, Paul and Mary's newest recorded effort, Around The Campfire incorporates a subtext of "carrying it on." In Campfire's four newly recorded cuts, the Trio deliberately chose to sing with voices that were passionate and musical, but untutored.
In this, their fourth decade together, Peter, Paul and Mary seek to be viewed less as performers and more as purveyors of a universal, accessible language that fosters mutual recognition, mutual validation and empowerment.
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 Peter, Paul and Mary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The trio Peter, Paul and Mary (often PPandM) is an American musical group that was one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the 1960s.
The trio comprises Peter Yarrow, Noel "Paul" Stookey, and Mary Travers.
Peter, Paul and Mary received in 2006 the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award from Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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 Peter, Paul, and Mary's Puff the Magic Dragon lyrics and drug references
Rumors abound that the Peter, Paul, and Mary children's hit Puff the Magic Dragon is all about drugs, particularly marijuana yet The band claims it is simply about losing the innocence of childhood.
The first concerts of Peter, Paul, and Mary (in 1961) consisted of a solo set by each of the men, followed by a dozen songs sung as a trio.
Peter Yarrow eventually tracked Lipton down to tell him what he did with the poem -- although the song was performed for over a year, it wasn't copyrighted until it was recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary for their second album, Moving, in early 1963.
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 Peter, Paul, and Mary St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Peter, Paul, and Mary (PPandM) came together in Greenwich Village in 1961.
Peter and Mary continued their political activism, while Paul converted to Christianity.
In 1978 Peter invited Paul and Mary to join him for an anti-nuclear benefit concert, and this was followed by the album Reunion (1978).
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 "Future Shoes" by Michael Finley
Paul, who started life as a standup comedian, told a very funny story about retreating to a backstage restroom, only to find out he had mistakenly entered a neighbor's house.
Peter yearns to ignite in the corporate world in the 2000s the same kind of upheaval that PP&M, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan ignited in the youth culture in the 1960s.
Peter, Paul & Mary were founded, back when computers were too big to fit inside a house, on the intuition that the right music, sung simply and sincerely, wielded as much change power as an atom bomb.
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 PBS - American Roots Music : The Songs and the Artists - Peter, Paul and Mary
Peter, Paul and Mary first stepped onto the stage together at the Bitter End in Greenwich Village in the fall of 1961.
Three folk singers with individual careers - Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers - suddenly as a trio had a sound stronger than any of them alone.
The three of them eventually went their separate ways but have gotten together for a number of tours and a few albums in the last decade.
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 Peter, Paul & Mary
But to be more accurate, you hold a bouquet of song still fresh as earth, and strong with the perfume of sincerity.
Whatever they have thus far undertaken, Peter, Paul and Mary have done well, and with flair.
Peter, Paul and Mary's first album is bright with enthusiasm.
www.peterpaulandmary.com /music/01.htm   (287 words)

  
 Peter, Paul and Mary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Peter Yarrow had recently graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Psychology.
Peter, Paul and Mary's dedication to raising awareness of issues concerning social justice, most notably the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960's, has always been evident in their work.
A quotation from Mary Travers: "We've always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that's clean." Peter, Paul and Mary's undying commitment to hope, justice, and peace is known the world over.
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 Peter, Paul & Mary to be honored - MUSIC - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers and Noel Stookey of the legendary folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, rehearse at the Riverside Church in New York on Dec. 8, 2005.
The group is honoring Peter, Paul and MaryPeter Yarrow, Stookey and Mary Travers — with its Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award at its annual induction ceremonies Thursday night.
The power in the words voiced by Peter, Paul and Mary was subtle but strong.
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 peter-paul-and-mary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He also found notes by his mother Thelma Morrow indicating that Peter Paul was reared by his grandmother, and that he was born in Austria of French-Polish and Czech descent.
Looks to me that Peter Paul would be the boy on the far right, or the boy on the left in the back row.
This would put Peter Paul in his 40s, Mary in her mid 30s and Matthew Steucek (a few rows back and to the right of Mary) in his 70s.
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 Race Matters - Peter, Paul, Mary and God
And the Gospel of Philip says of Mary Magdalene: "She is the one the Savior loved more than all the disciples, and he used to kiss her on her mouth often.
These gospels aren't necessarily suggesting a romance between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and in any case their value is much debated — traditionalists argue that they are prized to make ideological points rather than to clarify history.
The Gospel of Mary was written in her name but not by her, and apparently was written in the early second century, long after the events it describes.
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 Peter, Paul & Mary MP3 Downloads - Peter, Paul & Mary Music Downloads - Peter, Paul & Mary Music Videos
For their first new album since 1995's Lifelines, veteran folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary haven't changed things around much.
As far as PPM themselves are concerned, this album is much more representative of their sound than the 1978 Reunion LP was.
After leaving their long-time label home at Warner Bros. Records following the 1978 LP Reunion, Peter, Paul & Mary went the independent, self-releasing route before signing to startup company Gold...
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 Peter, Paul and Mary - Lifelines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Take a magical, musical trip through the past and present as the famous folk trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, perform some of their best-known songs.
Among the favorites you'll hear are "The Times They Are A-Changin'," "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Stewball." Peter, Paul and Mary also sing tunes from their more recent "LifeLines" recording.
Peter, Paul & Mary are: Peter Yarrow; Noel Paul Stookey; and Mary Travers.
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 Amazon.com: Best Of Peter, Paul & Mary: Ten Years Together: Music: Peter Paul & Mary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Pete Seeger was already a legend by the time Peter Paul and Mary had a hit with his song If I had a hammer.
The harmonies of "Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young", "The Mammas and the Pappas" and "Peter, Paul and Mary" were the cornerstone vocals of the "love and peace" movement.
I'm sure that all of us who remember PP&M welcome a CD reissue if only because we won't have to listen to the scratches and the skips that a well-loved record album is burdened by.
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 Peter Paul & Mary Website
“Peter, Paul and Mary are folk singers.” So stated the liner notes to the group’s self-titled 1962 debut album.
Today, this declaration seems redundant, because the term “folk music” has come to be virtually interchangeable with the group name, but when the words were written, they were meant less as a stylistic distinction than as a mission statement.
No American folk group has lasted longer or amassed a more loyal following than Peter, Paul and Mary; indeed, few groups of any genre have logged more years (43) or miles (countless) in direct, yearly touring; spreading the message and engaging the next (now four) generations.
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 Amazon.com: Peter, Paul And Mary (1st LP): Music: Peter Paul & Mary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mary's voice is a lilting bird reaching above Peter's tenor and Paul's bass, adding brilliant highlights and enforcing the sense that these songs just couldn't be sung any better.
Although Peter, Paul and Mary have matured, they still sing what they believe and support wonderful causes like Operation Respect.
Albert Grossman brought Peter and Paul and Mary together and fine-tuned them in a way not the least bit foreign to the history of talent management.
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 Peter, Paul & Mary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Peter, Paul & Mary - Music Downloads - Online
Bio: The most popular folk group of the 1960s, Peter, Paul & Mary in later decades have also proved themselves to be among the most durable music acts in history.
Their recording, released in June of 1963, was an instant hit, shipping over 300,000 copies in less than two weeks -- many times the number of records that Dylan himself had sold up that point -- and eventually rising to number two on the charts.
In 1998, they carried the same all-star singalong concept a step further, in a slightly different direction, with Around the Campfire, and in 1999, Warner Bros. issued its second PP&M best-of compilation, Songs of Conscience and Concern.
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