Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary dead at 72

[DiveCon]

Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary dead at 72 - USATODAY.com

RIP Mary

 

[DiveCon]

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[Modbert]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu_rItLPTXc&feature=related]YouTube - Peter, Paul and Mary -Puff The Magic Dragon[/ame]

 

[xotoxi]

Puff the Magic Dragon always makes me cry.

Does that make me a wuss?

 

[BasicGreatGuy]

I liked the trio. I remember singing their songs on the school bus. Many hours of enjoyment over the years. Thank you Mary.

 

[jillian]

Puff makes me cry too... can't even listen to it since I had my son.

I love this one, though....

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[BasicGreatGuy]

Puff makes me cry too... can't even listen to it since I had my son.

I love this one, though....

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They took Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. aka John Denver's song, and made it a smash hit.

 

[jillian]

I didn't know John Denver wrote it until I googled it just now. Interesting factoid.

It was also one of my favorites to play on the guitar.

 

[noose4]

that is sad, i loved Peter, Paul, and Mary.

 

[edthecynic]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpIh68Kh_-s]YouTube - PETER, PAUL & MARY ~ The Great Mandela ~[/ame]

 

[DavidS]

Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary dead at 72 - Yahoo! News

BOSTON – Mary Travers, who as one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary helped popularize such tunes as "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" and "If I Had a Hammer," died Wednesday after battling leukemia for several years. She was 72.


The band's publicist, Heather Lylis, says Travers died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut.


Bandmate Peter Yarrow said that in her final months, Travers handled her declining health with bravery and generosity, showing her love to friends and family "with great dignity and without restraint."


"It was, as Mary always was, honest and completely authentic," he said. "That's the way she sang, too; honestly and with complete authenticity."
Noel "Paul" Stookey, the trio's other member, praised Travers for her inspiring activism, "especially in her defense of the defenseless."


"I am deadened and heartsick beyond words to consider a life without Mary Travers and honored beyond my wildest dreams to have shared her spirit and her career," he said.


Mary Allin Travers was born on Nov. 9, 1936 in Louisville, Ky., the daughter of journalists who moved the family to Manhattan's bohemian Greenwich Village. She quickly became enamored with folk performers like the Weavers, and was soon performing with Pete Seeger, a founding member of the Weavers who lived in the same building as the Travers family.


With a group called the Song Swappers, Travers backed Seeger on one album and two shows at Carnegie Hall. She also appeared (as one of a group of folk singers) in a short-lived 1958 Broadway show called "The Next President," starring comedian Mort Sahl.


It wasn't until she met up with Yarrow and Stookey that Travers would taste success on her own. Yarrow was managed by Albert B. Grossman, who later worked in the same capacity for Bob Dylan.


In the book "Positively 4th Street" by David Hajdu, Travers recalled that Grossman's strategy was to "find a nobody that he could nurture and make famous."

 

[Xenophon]

Puff the Magic Dragon always makes me cry.

Does that make me a wuss?

Homo

 

[Jon]

That's 2 celebrities down. Still crossing my fingers for Kanye or Eminem to go next.

 

[Modbert]

That's 2 celebrities down. Still crossing my fingers for Kanye or Eminem to go next.

Actually it's already been three:

Actor Henry Gibson dead at 73, spokesman says - CNN.com

 

[strollingbones]

cellar door...georgetown....early or mid 70s....

great concert....here is one my favs

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKvpONl3No]YouTube - if i had a hammer - peter paul and mary[/ame]

 

[strollingbones]

OOPS dc already posted this one...sorry

 

[strollingbones]

and why the hell does a pot smokers song make you cry.....puff is the fucking smoke...yall...

or maybe not:

Puff, the Magic Dragon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[editec]

I was never much of a fan of theirs, but it is disturbing when artists who have always been part of my life pass on.

Makes me feel old, ya know?

 

[namvet]

they were the peace activists of their day. Dylan worte some of their music to


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[Big Black Dog]

I was never a great Peter, Paul and Mary fan. Just didn't care so much for their music. They were a really great group but just not my cup of tea. Really shocked to hear that Henry Gibson had died. I didn't know that. He was really funny on the old Laugh-In show. Regrets for both of these passings.