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Peter Yarrow (born May 31, 1938) is an American singer and songwriter who found fame as a member of the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Yarrow co-wrote (with Leonard Lipton) one of the group's best known hits, "Puff, the Magic Dragon".
- He made his TV debut well before Peter, Paul & Mary made a name for themselves. Yarrow was already making waves as a solo singer before becoming part of a trio with Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, which is how he came to make an appearance on the CBS series Folk Sound USA.
- He co-wrote and produced a song which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1977. With the assistance of co-writer Phillip Jarrell, Yarrow helped bring into existence Mary MacGregor’s hit single “Torn Between Two Lovers,” which is surely one of the best love-triangle songs ever penned.
- He contributed vocals to a Burt Bacharach album. Yes, ’77 was a pretty good year for Yarrow, as it was also the year that Bacharach invited him to participate in the sessions for his FUTURES album.
- He helped organize the Festival for Peace in 1970. For as many momentous concerts took place in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, you’d think that there’d be documentation of all of them, but that’s not the case with the Festival for Peace, which Yarrow helped organize and produce.
Songs with life lessons about disappointing dragons, inedible lemons, and hammering as much as possible during a 24-period (actually, maybe we didn't have it much better here in the US of A). In any case, we remember liking Peter, Paul, and Mary.
May 31, 2018 · Peter Yarrow originally did She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye, Isn't That So?, Love Among People, Sitting in Limbo and other songs. Peter Yarrow wrote Weave Me the Sunshine, Puff the Magic Dragon and Very Last Day.
- May 31, 1938
Yarrow spoke with Songfacts about Bob Dylan, the music scene from which the trio emerged, and the stories behind a pair of Peter, Paul and Mary classics.
May 31, 2023 · Yarrow was a singer who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio, Peter, Paul and Mary. He co-wrote (with Leonard Lipton) one of the group's most famous songs, "Puff, the Magic Dragon." Peter Yarrow and his daughter, Bethany, sing in their apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 2010.
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Peter Yarrow and his musical partners Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers were pioneers in the urban folk movement, advocating for social justice as a trio until Travers’ passing in 2009. With the release of Peter, Paul and Mary: 50 Years in Music and Life, an accompanying PBS special, and Discovered, a new CD of previously-unreleased live ...
