Paul And Mary
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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7 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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In the Wind (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks)
Pop - Released by Folk, Blues & Beyond on 1 Oct 1963
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Peter, Paul and Mary (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks)
Pop - Released by Folk, Blues & Beyond on 1 Jan 1962
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Moving (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks)
Pop - Released by Folk, Blues & Beyond on 1 Jan 1963
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Peter, Paul and Mary
Pop - Released by Cantelope Records on 30 May 2023
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Peter, Paul And Mary (EP) (All Tracks Remastered)
Pop - Released by Hit Singles Records on 29 Aug 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo