Peter, Paul and Mary
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Peter, Paul and Mary were always iconic. At the March on
Washington, August 28, 1963:, as Peter, Paul and Mary stood before the Lincoln
Memorial singing Pete Seeger and Lee Hays's "The Hammer Song (If I Had A
Hammer)," with its stirring final verse about "the hammer of justice," "the bell
of freedom" and "the song about love between my brothers and my sisters, all
over this land," Peter Yarrow, Noel "Paul" Stookey and Mary Travers, all in
their midĽ20s, were not only the most politically committed, but also the most
popular singing group in the United States.
Peter, Paul and Mary's single, "Blowin' In The Wind" (which they also sang at
the march), stood at #5 in its 10th week on Billboard magazine's Hot 100, its
sixth week in the Top 10, heading back up the chart after already peaking at #2
two weeks before. Their second album, (Moving), released the previous January,
had been certified as a gold record the day before, following their first,
Peter, Paul And Mary. That week, (Moving) stood at #4 on Billboard's Top LP's
chart; Peter, Paul And Mary, in its 71st consecutive week on the chart, was at
#7.
In demand for performances around the world, Peter, Paul and Mary were doing
close to 200 concerts a year, as well as scores of benefit performances of which
the March on Washington was only the most prominent.
It was a heady time for Peter, Paul and Mary, due to both the progress of its
career and the promise of its politics. "I was very, very happy, because I loved
singing," said Yarrow, recalling that period 32 summers later. "I was very
committed. I'd seen the form rather than the shadow. I knew that the world could
be a better place. I knew that folk music could and should have a role in making
all that work, and when I say, 'making all that work,' I mean articulating the
vision and expressing creatively the sense of consensus by the activist
community, by the dreamers, by the organizers. I really entered folk music more
because I saw its capacity to be an actual expression of commonality than I did
because the music is so extraordinary.
Peter, Paul and Mary carry on. In 2005, Mary Travers was diagnosed with
leukemia, leading to the cancellation of the remaining tour dates for that year.
She received a bone marrow transplant and is recovering successfully.
Peter, Paul and Mary resumed their concert tour on December 9, 2005 with a
holiday performance at Carnegie Hall and are scheduled for several additional
concerts in 2006.
Peter, Paul and Mary received in 2006 the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievment Award
from Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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