Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary dead at 72

Associated Press ^ | Sept. 16, 2009

[Free ThinkerNY]

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) - Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died.

The band's publicist, Heather Lylis, says Travers died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut on Wednesday. She was 72 and had battled leukemia for several years.

Travers joined forces with Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey in the early 1960s.

[Mr_Moonlight]

LOL! I will take The Ramones led by John Cummings akak Johnny Ramone. He loved Reagan and President Bush.

Hahahahaaaaa .. quite the opposite *sound* of PP&M, who were reported to have been literally in tears when Dylan showed up on stage with an electric backing band (The Band) at the Newport Folk Festival

[HokieMom]

I can’t imagine Girl Scout camping in the ‘60’s without them.

http://ingeb.org/songs/cruelwar.html

[llevrok]

a great artist. Her voice will be missed.

[Frantzie]

The tolerant lefties and folkie Bolsheviks in the folkie community attacked Dylan when he went electric. I think he even got death threats. Such tolerance. I was never a huge Dylan fan but he was very cool when the cops asked him for ID in NJ recently when he was wandering around before a show. The cops were too young to know who he was. He never made a fuss and just walked with them to the tour bus to get his wallet and ID.

[rockvillem]

Dayan Ha’emet. I’m sure that PP&M’s politics don’t agree with my political sensibilities, but now is not the time. May she rest in peace.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[RightField]

me too

[texas_mrs]

Picture from 2008

[concentric circles]

This song demonstrates their impeccable musicianship and the power of their performances:

Peter Paul & Mary - If I Had My Way

[BluesDuke]

Look every folkie by an large was pals with Pete Seeger . . .

Pete Seeger was the one who had to be restrained from taking an ax to the stage wires when Bob Dylan, backed by a few members of the original Butterfield Blues Band (Mike Bloomfield, Jerry Arnold, and Sam Lay) plus Al Kooper (on keyboards), tried to play an electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Something about "purifying" the music or some such rot. Then he cut an album with three members of the Blues Project backing him up. So much for "purity," eh, Pete?

That said, RIP Mary Travers. To this day, I'll swear that "Puff, the Magic Dragon" and "Too Much of Nothing" were your best records.

[HokieMom]

And Blowin in the Wind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t4g_1VoGw4&NR=1

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

So did I! First song I learned to play was “Blowin in the Wind”.

God bless Mary and be with her loved ones.

[Frantzie]

Sadly Seeger did not try to take an axe to the main power cords. Little commie facist.

He would have gotten an express ride to hell to be with his buddy Stalin.

[Mr_Moonlight]

I was never a huge Dylan fan but he was very cool when the cops asked him for ID in NJ recently when he was wandering around before a show ~~~ He never made a fuss and just walked with them to the tour bus to get his wallet and ID.

I posted about this extensively on the threads here on FR when that incident occurred ... that Dylan wasn't your typical 'rock star celebrity' type, and that the incident was really nothing .. really ... that it was just being blown up because of his name recognition (or lack of it, by the young Joiysey Police).

Several FReepers automatically knee-jerked the story as some offensive jack-boot political thing, which it was not. Some others knee-jerked the story as the 'celebrity got what he deserved' ... again, which it was not.

Dylan was just walking thru a neighborhood as is his right , disheveled perhaps, and got asked by police to show ID .. he didn't have any and explained who he was and where he was staying .. they went back to the hotel and all was settled. No harm, no foul ... no screaming, no raving lawsuits, no big deal.

The only reason it made news is that he just happened to be Bob Dylan, that's all .......

[vetvetdoug]

Mary Travers RIP. Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds, and John Stewart are all gone too. Where have all the folk singers gone?

[June K.]

MM,

It’s not hard for me to believe that this could happen...I mean that a celebrity such as Dylan could have been unrecognized and questioned!

No matter how well known a ‘star’ is there are still those who might not know them- or even their name! :) This young cop, obviously, was not into the world of music- or at least not-ancient music! ;)

And that was all there was to it...no hidden undertones or reasons for what happened...a cop just doing his job and a star just reacting like a normal human being! ( and not like a pampered ‘Rock Star,’ who was insulted for not being recognized.)

I agree Dylan handled it in a very cool manner!

Junie K

[Frantzie]

I recall the thread. I was impressed that he did not pull the celeb trip.

Were the cops out of line? Who knows. Maybe he looked like some old guy wandering around.

Yeah it was a mundane story but he handled it well.

[Kevmo]

They were hippies but it was enjoyable to listen to their music.

“I’m in love with a big blue frog
and a big blue frog loves me.
It’s not as bad as it might seem
she wears glasses and she’s five foot three.

Now I’m not worried about our kids
I know they’ll turn out neat
great lookers ‘cause they’ll have my face
great swimmers ‘cause they’ll have her feet.

P H R O G Phrog and me....”

[SwinneySwitch]

Where have all the liberals gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the liberals gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the liberals gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

[a fool in paradise]

I also know that one of the big singles of these dedicated stalinists is on an all time list of the worst rock’n’roll records. You oughta know which one.

I prefer Leonard Nimoy's version of If I Had A Hammer.