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Peter, Paul & Mary
12+ albums
folk60ssinger-songwriteroldiesclassic rock
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Peter, Paul & Mary (sometimes PP&M) was an American folk trio remembered as one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the 1960s. The trio comprised Peter Yarrow (died 2025), Noel Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers (died 2009). The group was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999 and, in 2006, received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2009, the trio was inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame. The group was created by manager Albert Grossman, who sought to create a folk "supergroup" by bringing together "a tall blonde (Travers), a funny guy (Stookey), and a good looking guy (Yarrow)." He launched the group in 1961, booking them into the Bitter End, a coffee house in New York City's Greenwich Village that was a favorite place to hear folk artists. The group recorded their first album, Peter, Paul and Mary, the following year. It included "500 Miles," "Lemon Tree","Where Have All the Flowers Gone," and the hit Pete Seeger tune "If I Had a Hammer," ("The Hammer Song"). The album was listed on Billboard Magazine Top Ten list for ten months and in the Top One Hundred for over three years. By 1963 they had recorded three albums; released the now-famous song "Puff the Magic Dragon", which Yarrow and fellow Cornell student Leonard Lipton originally wrote in 1959 and was on the charts in 1963; and performed "If I Had a Hammer" at the 1963 March on Washington, best remembered for Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I
