Peter is the one who attracts young children by singing, "Puff the Magic Dragon"
Posted on 04/11/2017 8:47:16 AM PDT by mairdie
A very old song from vinyl - "When I Need You Most of All" by Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary. Done to Kirk and Spock of Star Trek.
It's wonderful that YouTube has taken to monetizing copyright material to the copyright holders so that they can let songs like this be used.
Best, Mary Van Deusen
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Mary Travers When I Need You Most of All Lyrics
You say my smile is like a summer day, But what if tears begin to fall? If things get bad, will you be on your way? Will you be here when I need you most of all. When grey geese honk across the autumn sky Will you look up and hear the call? Will you be like the geese and have to fly? Will you be here when I need you most of all.
When I am snow-blind and it seems that the mountains And the trees are too distant and too cold. When I am having my December dreams Will you be here when I need you most of all. And when we fight and sit without a word And watch the flowers climb the walls? Will it spoken and will it be heard? Will you be here when I need you most of all.
I don't need moments of unkindness or anger. There'll be days when the house is just too small. But if I let you see my heart and mind Will you be here when I need you most of all. Will you be here when I need you most of all.
> Her [Mary’s] work should have gotten more play in its day, separate from her work in Peter, Paul and Mary. <
Very true. And I wish she would have done more singles.
Her anti-American stand over the years has made her totally worthless to me. I don’t care what she sings.
I didn’t know. I have had that reaction to more than a few of the Hollywood types, and we’re not allowed to have Pirates of the Caribbean in the house. Is it that only liberals that want to be in the movies, or do they just succumb to peer pressure once they’re there? This election has separated me from too many of my fan friends.
Folk music (ala Joan Baez and others) were masked protest songs against the USA under the words of peace and love ... unfortunately, it took ME a long time to see my OWN leftism that needed to be eliminated before I could think about and speak against a lot of my sixties influence.
People like Sid Barret are my (too late to tell him) heroes
> Her anti-American stand over the years has made her totally worthless to me. <
That sort of thing is often a tough call for me. And here’s how I resolve it. I try to separate the evil from the merely stupid. Then it’s the evil I avoid.
Mary Travers, perhaps stupid at times. But not evil. So I’ll continue to enjoy her fine music. Jane Fonda and Woody Allen, both evil. I won’t have anything to do with anything they have done.
I never was tainted with leftism. I worked for Nixon from a Catholic girls high school, and was probably the only Republican in the school. At University of Chicago I was so straight they thought I was the local narc. But I still loved the folk songs and I always dissociated from their liberal use. But I’ll admit that it was my generation that shot everything to hell.
>>Jane Fonda and Woody Allen, both evil. I won’t have anything to do with anything they have done.
Heartfelt agreement!
Was it Peter or Paul who boinked a female groupie back in the 70s ?
I can see I missed most of the fan gossip in my youth. On the other hand, did you know that Sherlock’s parents in the British series actually WERE his parents, and that Dr. Julian Bashir and Kira of Deep Space 9 were married to one another during the series?
Peter Yarrow got a case of the “Woody Allens” with a 14 year old girl.
I couldn’t tell Peter from Paul...
Peter Yarrow at some point faced charges IIRC over a sexual incident. Paul Stookey is a devout Christian as I understand it and read in Guidepost. He wrote sang and wrote a song which was a big hit and he refused to keep the profits from it saying it was a gift from GOD "The Wedding Song" aka "There is love".
On a side note Yarrow wrote Puff The Magic Dragon back in his college days in the late 50's before the band was formed. He was studying fairy tales and mythology. He wrote the song and left it on a friends typewriter where he'd sat down and typed it out and forgot about it. It was found again a few years later. The song has no hidden meaning or agenda. It is about young childs imagination and growing up.
Paul Stookey is considerably taller and at least partially bald even on their first album cover.
>>On a side note Yarrow wrote Puff The Magic Dragon back in his college days in the late 50’s before the band was formed.
I actually did that song for Harry Potter. Not much of a challenge.
Puff the Magic Dragon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MwA2iWuJmA
More fun was interpreting pinball for quiddich.
Pinball Wizard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4hQ0tZW5-E
Or chess from One Night in Bangkok, the Chess production
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAomFzdFNlk
The conversation about folk music reminds me that the author of Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling, gives me that same queasy feeling about working in that fandom. I really wish she would stay out of politics.
Peter is the one who attracts young children by singing, "Puff the Magic Dragon"
One of the great female singing voices. Few singers who are gone do I miss but Mary is one.
Wanted to post a tubeyou link of Jesus met a woman at the well by Peter, Paul and Mary as her voice is so strong on it but alas I can only find covers on youietube. ... they seem to be removing lots of God old original songs and only have covers of those songs.
Here is P,P and Mary’s 500 miles, what a voice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADN1lLEp3H0
I’m not familiar with her solo stuff but she was surely the star of PP&M.And the fact that she looked pretty damn good once upon a time.And as a side note I was in Danbury,CT on the very day she died there.
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