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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Peter · Paul and Mary |
| Record Label: |
Warner Bros. Records (Record Label) |
| Genre: |
Folk |
| Release Date: |
July 15, 1992 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Blowin' in the Wind
2. Too Much of Nothing
3. Lemon Tree
4. Stewball
5. Early Mornin' Rain
6. 500 Miles
7. I Dig Rock and Roll Music
8. Leaving on a Jet Plane
9. Puff (The Magic Dragon)
10. For Lovin' Me
11. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
12. If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)
13. Day Is Done |
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Though some purists dismiss Peter, Paul & Mary as the calculated, commercial face of the 1960s folk boom, there is no denying the large-scale impact and cultural importance of the trio's music. With that in mind, it's difficult to fault 1970's TEN YEARS TOGETHER: THE BEST OF, a concise, superbly selected sampler of PP&M. The album plays, even all these years later, like pure honey from beginning to end, thanks entirely to the group's lilting three-part harmonies (in which Noel Stookey's baritone and Peter Yarrow's tenor perfectly offset Mary Traver's lovely alto). The group's voices and arrangements made shiny, cleaned-up hits out of some of the era's slightly rougher-hewn folk classics, and the best of those are here, including their version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind," Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain," and Pete Seeger's "If I Had a Hammer." Other tunes in the collection--"Lemon Tree" and "Puff the Magic Dragon," among them--have become classics in their own right, with the occasional fu... |
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