“Also, I had no idea “Leaving On A Jet Plane” was written by John Denver!”
There is a video out there of a very young John Denver and PP&M performing the song. Was before they had hit it big. The backdrop behind them is a simple white sheet on a line.
"Peter, Paul and Mary" is the debut studio album by American folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, released in May 1962 on Warner Bros. Records....it is one of the rare folk albums to reach No. 1 on the Billboard chart in the US, where it remained for over a month. The lead-off singles "If I Had a Hammer" and "Lemon Tree" reached numbers 10 and 35 respectively on the Billboard Pop Singles chart. It was the group's biggest selling studio album, eventually certified Double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for U.S. sales of more than two million copies.I also learned that they were a "created" group (like The Monkees a bit after them)...
b>Manager Albert Grossman created Peter, Paul and Mary in 1961, after auditioning several singers in the New York folk scene, including Dave Van Ronk, who was rejected as too idiosyncratic and uncommercial, and Carolyn Hester. After rehearsing Yarrow, Stookey and Travers out of town in Boston and Miami, Grossman booked them into The Bitter End, a coffee house, nightclub and popular folk music venue in New York City's Greenwich Village.I had no idea about that, either.